a science of man adequate in power and commensurate with his complexity....

Prescription doesn't work

Only complexity is equal to complexity

Some things that would help

Prescription doesn't work

Cat and Girl are Girl and Cat

I really am going to kill you as soon as I figure out how to shoot you from inside your skull.

Prescription doesn't work

Quick:
What does this diagram show?

Prescription doesn't work

Quick:
What does this diagram show?

Can you tell now?

Only complexity is equal to complexity

Ignoring any aspect of human behavior is counterproductive

Yes, even the parts that make no sense

Yes, even the parts we don't like to talk about

We shouldn't be afraid of messy theories

(Stafford Beer, 1974)

Some things that would help

A better theory of context

A believable theory of internal mechanism

An inventory of world knowledge

Neuron-by-neuron noninvasive brain scanning

A closing thought

a science of man adequate in power and commensurate with his complexity....

The problem with Man is not so much that he's a male, but that there's only one of him.

-- uncredited text from The Next Whole Earth Catalog (1980)

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