tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799743914339293978.post3109858110209040444..comments2023-08-25T14:14:51.847+01:00Comments on Thoughts in Transit: Mikhail Mikhailovich BakhtinLarry Cuffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00369944489322957884noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799743914339293978.post-92134935730488266542010-10-28T21:03:28.024+01:002010-10-28T21:03:28.024+01:00Sorry for the delay in responding, I didn’t spot y...Sorry for the delay in responding, I didn’t spot your comment initially, and when I did it gave me a lot to follow up, as I was unaware of Maturano's work. <br />The redundancy and ambiguity in language seem to imply that it is often more important to communicate than to have a precise understanding. The existence of specific codes where precision is required, such as when commands are given in sailing or rock-climbing is evidence of this.<br />The idea of structural coupling is more complex, but I think quite important in the context of the digital ecosystem within which eLearning is placed. This has started me thinking about how we co-exist with both the tools and the organizations we use, for example my PLE is a function my ability to see in the digital environment, and as I understand it, I have a structural coupling with it. There is food for thought here, and I think this is an area worth exploring further.Larry Cuffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369944489322957884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799743914339293978.post-89389556015642015142010-10-17T04:10:13.558+01:002010-10-17T04:10:13.558+01:00Hey Larry;
Bakhtin is becoming more prominence in ...Hey Larry;<br />Bakhtin is becoming more prominence in many discussion, exposing his many sides, but the two you mention are critical. <br />A thought - sometimes when we search for truth and rightness - I think we're trying to do things that are a step too far beyond our evolution. John Shotter, I think, would suggest that this indeterminacy that Bakhtin points out, it lies at the heart of our ability to do things jointly or what the biologist Humberto Maturana would call structural coupling. The ability to survive as a species is less dependent on our ability to be correct than it is to be able to do things together. It would then seem likely that our language would evolve to be flexible in this way. Just a late Saturday nite wandering thought.Howard Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09426998835138855839noreply@blogger.com