[From Chris Cherpas (960215.1002 PT)]
[The sound of two hands missing each other]
Controlling for a concept of linear (IV-DV) causality is often
cited here as an impediment to seeing circular causality. The
situation is perhaps analogous to the perceptual experiment in
which a picture looked at from one perspective appears to be a
young woman ("wife") but as an older woman ("mother-in-law")
when "viewed differently." Both views are "correct," but
cannot be held at the same time.
When looking at the "same" phenomenon, are there simply moments
when an x-y causality view is appropriate and other times when
cyclical/iterative causality is appropriate, while all the while
there is no higher-level perception which integrates the two?
This may be tantamount to multiple personality disorder (maybe
multiple perceptual disorder }8-/.
In the case of the wife/mother-in-law picture, there doesn't seem
to be a perception in which one can control for both images
at the same time, other than perhaps a "recognition" that a
plurality of perceptions can co-exist, never converging, in
one's self.
Best regards,
cc