It is not individuals but the structures through which they communicate that build our social systems (which are different from psychic systems)
Started on September 22, 2023
Every construct we use is a structure that inherently influences how communication is accepted and rejected and when it emerges (acceptance). Communication is different from consciousness. Communication can never be true to consciousness yet we need it because we aren't psychically connected to know what others experience in their heads.
Therefore, we might want to think about communication structures that allow for flow of communication that is conducive to specific types of communication we would like to see emerge (structure conditions behavior; specific environments are conducive to specific forms of emergence).
A big insight I have here is that, we might further think about the spectrum of communication and intentional decision making from communication with self to communication with the system.
Excerpt from MESH-EJ-THESIS (page C-6):
Niklas Luhmann โdefended the quite novel thesis that, while social systems are self-organizing and self-re- producing systems, they do not consist of individualsโor roles or even acts, as commonly conceptualizedโbut exclusively of communicationsโ (Geyer 2001) โข I find this theory interesting because it points at the universal nature of information transfer โข I might reason quickly that all forms of roles or concrete actions are artificial containers which prevent the ultimate communication with everything โข but they also streamline communication because relating to the whole world can be quite overwhelming โข this idea feeds into my emphasis on integrating communication of more aspects of our lives into the collective sense-making (com- munication) process to arrive at deeper change