Feedback Systems
Feb. 10th, 2009 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiWe live in a constant feedback system -- everything influences everything. People try to find root causes of things all the time, but there are no true root causes, because everything is so deeply interwoven that no one thing can be pointed to as the roott cause -- everything has multiple influences. Even when one thing looks like it's the cause of everything in a breakdown in the system, there are actually lots of contributing factors that cause it to go astray.
We live in a culture that wants simple answers for things. Simple answers make the best sound bites. But our society is so complex and multi-layerd that those simple sound bites often don't even begin to encompass the breadth, depth, and height of the situation.
This is also the way it goes in psychological situations. Thoughts influence emotions, which influence thoughts. Thoughts create behaviors, which result in thoughts. Behaviors create emotions which create other behaviors. All of these things influence each other.
However, since we live in what considers itself a rational culture, thoughts get the most attention. There are thousands of books in the self help sectio that tell us how to think through our problems, yet they don't fix the problem most of the time. I fundamentally believe that if you don't address all of the aspects and influences of a problem, you won't fix it. It's like running a virus scanner on half the contents of a hard drive.
Just some things I'm musing on today
Music: Richard Cheese - Baby got Back
Mood: Contemplative
We live in a culture that wants simple answers for things. Simple answers make the best sound bites. But our society is so complex and multi-layerd that those simple sound bites often don't even begin to encompass the breadth, depth, and height of the situation.
This is also the way it goes in psychological situations. Thoughts influence emotions, which influence thoughts. Thoughts create behaviors, which result in thoughts. Behaviors create emotions which create other behaviors. All of these things influence each other.
However, since we live in what considers itself a rational culture, thoughts get the most attention. There are thousands of books in the self help sectio that tell us how to think through our problems, yet they don't fix the problem most of the time. I fundamentally believe that if you don't address all of the aspects and influences of a problem, you won't fix it. It's like running a virus scanner on half the contents of a hard drive.
Just some things I'm musing on today
Music: Richard Cheese - Baby got Back
Mood: Contemplative
