Verbatim

a commonplace blog of quotations about learning and learning design

the role of the observer

October 24th, 2005 · No Comments
connectedness & separateness

Everything said is said by someone.

Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco J. Varela, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, 1999, p. 26.

Everything is said by someone in the expectation of being understood by someone else. Everything heard as being said is heard being said by someone and calls for a response.

Klaus Krippendorff, Cybernetics Discussion Group, June 14, 1999, adding a relational note.

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