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“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you” – Carl Jung
In today’s post, I am looking at Heinz von Foerster’s ethical imperative. He explained this as follows – ‘I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices’. This might seem as a strange choice of words. I will try to explain my understanding of this based on constructivism and existentialism. HvF believed that we construct our stable experiential reality based on our historical interactions with our environment in an autonomous manner. Our ongoing interactions lend stability to our experiences that we can identify as “tokens” for objects. This gives us the ability to recall an object in the external world.
From a social realm standpoint, this goes further in that we identify the “self” and the “others” based on this. We differentiate ourselves from the…
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