
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns

Evolution is what happens when patterns that used to define survival become deadly.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
‘How is this symmathesy learning to make sense of its world?’
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new. This dance exists everywhere in nature. It is the swarm of confusion that becomes the grace of the way things come together.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Specialized and separated, the ideas that so badly want to twist and frolic around each other are captive.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
So often the word for something or someone is a box, an outline, a set of limits—a tightness that isolates the ‘subject’ from its context.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Being wrong and not knowing are assets. These traits are not dismissals of serious study, but instead offer an invitation to the diversity of perspectives within a diversity of contexts… a much wider pool to play in.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Good questions do not have answers at all, let alone right or wrong ones.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Perhaps she could be a door to another realm, she thought to herself: “If you cannot handle the connections, avoid the endpoints and be connectivity itself. Merge.”
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
The evolution will not be commodified. The value is intrinsic, and there is no zero-sum game. But there is implicit cost everywhere. Currency is in units of curiosity, empathy, unity, and sentiment.