Today we will NOT talk about
Critiques of standard methodology (for another time?)
Quantity cannot measure pattern

inappropriate generalization of quantitative measurement operations to pattern

   
  appropriate for quantities
(time, space, force, pressure, etc.)
  msec., cm,
mm of Hg
measurement of pattern
as if it were a quantity
will produce muddle headedness.
 
Critique of the experimental method
which must modified to work with even simple complex systems
     
Critiques of Insight Therapy were well stated but had no effect on therapies for many decades.
Things change when there is a positive alternative
Therapy changed when behavior therapy and, later, cognitive therapy appeared on the scene
   

A positive alternative is the prerequisite for change
Meta Principle: Create a World that
(1) you want to live in
&
(2) other people want to join

 

Intro
Meta-Principles in a Batesonian Epistemology
Beowulf & Grendel
Methodological Issues
Mapping Bateson's Difference-based Epistemology onto Boolean Nets
An Overview of E42