2016年6月22日 星期三

holarchy, holacracy, the ghost in the machine,



The term holacracy is derived from the term holarchy, coined by Arthur Koestler in his 1967 book The Ghost in the Machine. A holarchy is composed of holons (Greek: ὅλον, holon neuter form of ὅλος, holos "whole") or units that are autonomous and self-reliant, but also dependent on the greater whole of which they are part.[5] Thus a holarchy is a hierarchy of self-regulating holons that function both as autonomous wholes and as dependent parts.[5]

「Holacracy」(意為「無領導管理制」)



the ghost in the machine
  • 〔哲学〕 機械の中の幽霊:G.Ryle (英国の哲学者)が The Concept of Mind(1949)の中でデカルトの身心二元論における精神の扱いを批判した言葉.



The "ghost in the machine" is British philosopher Gilbert Ryle's description of René Descartesmind-body dualism. The phrase was introduced in Ryle's book The Concept of Mind (1949)[1] to highlight the perceived absurdity of dualist systems like Descartes' where mental activity carries on in parallel to physical action, but where their means of interaction are unknown or, at best, speculative.[2]
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The Ghost in the Machine is a 1967 book about philosophical psychology by Arthur Koestler. The title is a phrase (see ghost in the machine) coined by the Oxford philosopherGilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship. Koestler shares with Ryle the view that the mind of a person is not an independent non-material entity, temporarily inhabiting and governing the body. One of the book's central concepts is that as the human brain evolved, it retained and built upon earlier, more primitive brain structures. The work attempts to explain humanity's tendency towards self-destruction in terms of brain structure, philosophies, and its overarching, cyclical political–historical dynamics, reaching the height of its potential in the nuclear arms arena.

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