World Thinking Report 7
The human brain is designed to be a pattern making and pattern recognising system. I described how the brain does this more than forty years ago in my book ‘The Mechanism of Mind’. I described how the neurones form patterns and recognise them.
The practical utility of such a system is obvious. The early caveman needs to recognise the fruits that are edible and the ones that are poisonous. The same applies to the behaviour of animals and also people.
Recognition implies judgement: “is it this or is it that”. The box logic of the Greek Gang of Three reinforces this natural tendency.
Politicians have to go to where they are through judgement and argument which is a form of judgement. So it is hardly surprising that matters are treated in this judgement fashion.
What is the alternative to judgement? One alternative is ‘design’.
Some Palestinians fire rockets at Israel. The Israelis judge them to be bad guys and are inclined to bomb them. A design approach might suggest that all the countries that set up Israel should give the Palestinians a grant of three billion dollars a year. But each time a rocket is fired at Israel they loose fifty million dollars. Now the militants are no longer heroes but rather a nuisance.
