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1997
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Psychology
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English
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103-398-335
(Last edited on
2004/12/20 02:52:24 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
The way of "world-experiencing" and shaping our existence can be placed on a scale between two diametrically opposed poles: At the one extreme end we find chaos - unpredictable and complex. And the more we become involved with the uniqueness of chaotic processes the less reduced are our experiences, which now are more likely to admit the aware ness of the new, the surprising and the creative. But the price is that we cannot make predictions based on regularities and are all the more likely to fall prey to the fear of the unpredictable and uncontrollable. At the other extreme end we find reductive order. And the more we categorize at this other end and detect or invent recurring aspects and regularities, the more predictable and therefore safer our experience of the world becomes. As a result chaos is held in check or even banished. But we find the „things“ treated in this man ner all the more rigid, boring, reduced and uniform. Trust in being and becoming - or in other words: in self-organized order - is the general message shared by wise old sayings in various cultures, Gestalt Theory and modern systems theory
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