Dançando com a ambiguidade

Pille Bunnell

doi:10.21665/2318-3888.v12n23p287

Authors

Pille Bunnell Royal Roads University https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6114-076X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21665/2318-3888.v12n23p287

Keywords:

Complexity. Culture. Biology. Language. Cybernetics. Systems.

Abstract

Readers of this paper are invited to dance with ambiguity, in other words, to engage with the uncertainties inherent in the complex systemic relational network that constitutes life on earth. As we consider the cultural, biological, and linguistic dimensions that we both constitute and are ourselves constituted by, we can discern that we have generated constraints that enable some aspects of living, while they constrain and even obscure other possibilities. As we recognize that the distinctions we have made are based on only the more obvious and recurrent regularities, we can recognize new possibilities in how we live our lives and hence the cultures and landscapes we generate. Using the metaphor of dancing encourages us to engage in a multidimensional interaction with the flow of our changing medium. Engaging as if dancing, the emotion of wonder can replace our desire for certainty. Living in an attitude of wonder can serve as an invitation to path to wisdom. Further, this exploration encourages us to reflect on the emotions that underpin our individual lives and assume a responsible stance toward the choices we make as a species.

Translation: Carlos Alberto Mourthé Júnior

Submission: March 20, 2024 ⊶ Accepted: May 25, 2024

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Author Biography

Pille Bunnell, Royal Roads University

Pille Bunnell is a systems ecologist and second-order cybenetician with a passion for education as her contribution to the sustainability of earth. In particular, she is interested in the implications of acting according to a constitutive ontology and epistemology. She has worked as an international environmental consultant and taught systems courses at several universities. Pille is the recipient of the Norbert Wiener Award for contributions to second-order cybernetics (ASC), and the Kelly Award for outstanding teaching (RRU). She lectured at the University of British Columbia and at the Royal Roads University. She is a past president of the American Society of Cybernetics, and member of the editorial board of the journals Cybernetics and Human Knowing and Constructivist Foundations. In 2008, Pille edited The Origin of Humanness in The Biology of Love, with Humberto Maturana and Gerda Verden-Zöller.

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