DESTRUCTION AND CREATION By JOHN R. BOYD
3 September 1976
ABSTRACT To comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. The purpose of this paper is to sketch out how we destroy and create these patterns to permit us to both shape and be shaped by a changing environment. In this sense, the discussion also literally shows why we cannot avoid this kind of activity if we intend to survive on our own terms. The activity is dialectic in nature generating both disorder and order that emerges as a changing and expanding universe of mental concepts matched to a changing and expanding universe of observed reality
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See blog about this article on same site: http://www.thecepblog.com/2009/02/09/destruction-and-creation-by-john-r-boyd/
And a compendium of Boyd work: http://dnipogo.org/john-r-boyd/
Which latter site provided a number of the references in a previous omnibus posting on Boyd: https://model.report/s/jkplld/ooda_loop_and_other_work_by_john_boyd