ORDER (Generative)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2382 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
- “A deeper and more inward order out of which the manifest form of things can emerge creatively” (D. BÖHM & F. DAVID PEAT, 1987, p. 151).
This is a generalization of the “implicate order” concept formerly introduced by D. BÖHM himself: “…a particular kind of generative order that has been most fully worked out in physiscs” (Ibid).
However, BÖHM and PEAT suggest that: “… such a generative order goes far beyond the quantum theory, and is a key feature of the general notion of order that is relevant to understand creativity in all areas of life” (3p. 195).
Generative order seems to be in BÖHM's idea a kind of universal and global limit to randomness. It remains present, for instance, in deterministic chaos.
According to BÖHM and PEAT, the concept is also useful in the study of social systems: “The breakdown in the generative order of society is more than mere decay… Rather, the rigidity in the generative order constitutes an extremely pervasive and far-reaching blockage of free play of the mind, and this makes for the constant spread of false play and prevents creativity that could adequately meet this situation” (p.209).
Values could be the form taken by generative order in human societies. But we would need a clear explanation for its breakdown.