Black-box thinking or doing

Exclusively thinking with signifiers (labels, icons, memes).

No parts, thus no affordances, thus ultimately unsustainable.

Effectively, the Subordination, in one’s thinking, to an iconic depiction or understanding.

“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”

What is writing if not putting down notes and editing them?

Exactly.

Related to Emptiness, Icons, Black-box thinking or doing. Contrasts with Wisdom-think.

A Confusion of mistaking map for territory. A failure of Finding the referent. Solved via Emptiness.

Date

March 6, 2023

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