IDEA
Charles François (2004). IDEA, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1601.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1601 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
- “The smallest unit of mental process”(G. BATESON, 1979, P. 228)
This is in Bateson's view the “difference or distinction or news of a difference”(Ibid)
He adds: “What is called an idea in popular speech seems to be a complex aggregate of such units. But popular speech will hesitate to call, say, the bilateral symmetry of a frog or the message of a single neural impulse an idea (Ibid)
Truly, the “idea”of what an idea is appears to be quite fuzzy . The word in itself is in fact a label sticked on a still insufficient understanding of our cerebral processes .