Review of Seeing
Posted: 10 Feb 2025, 07:22
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Seeing" by Lynn Rasmussen.]
We live in a complex world with a complex environment. From our origin to our destination, we experience much more complexity as we encounter others and their behaviors. Understanding our formations and that of others and how they exist leaves us scratching our heads with no apparent explanation.
Consequently, Seeing is designed to neutralize these complexities and give us an insightful understanding. Using systems as a center point, the book navigates how to break down nature, culture, and consciousness using patterns and processes for deeper envisioning. It guides readers on how to avoid seeing things from an object viewpoint and view them as a system with processes within it. Using examples, Seeing teaches how to effectively break down these systems and follow detailed patterns to the latter.
Once you read this book, you will never see your environment the same way again. Lynn Rasmussen put in this book all her effort to reprogram readers' viewpoint of things. One of the tactics she uses to do that is using vast examples of obvious things to you. For instance, she uses examples of traffic flows, insect colonies, cloud formation, etc., to explain system self-organization. She not only uses examples to explain system processes but also includes comparative definitions, features of the processes, and graphic models for easy digestion by readers.
Moreover, I applaud the chapters' organization. Someone who has no idea about systems won't find it difficult to read this book, which introduces the topic in a more understandable way and builds on it with each succeeding chapter. For example, it begins with "organizing the system," then "growing and balancing the system," then "maintaining the system," etc. This approach to building understanding for the next stage of the book makes it unique.
Although the editors missed countable things, it does not distract from the book's magnitude. I don't have any substantial changes or downsides to comment on Seeing. Therefore, I rate it 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it to people who are curious about secrets of this world.
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Seeing
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We live in a complex world with a complex environment. From our origin to our destination, we experience much more complexity as we encounter others and their behaviors. Understanding our formations and that of others and how they exist leaves us scratching our heads with no apparent explanation.
Consequently, Seeing is designed to neutralize these complexities and give us an insightful understanding. Using systems as a center point, the book navigates how to break down nature, culture, and consciousness using patterns and processes for deeper envisioning. It guides readers on how to avoid seeing things from an object viewpoint and view them as a system with processes within it. Using examples, Seeing teaches how to effectively break down these systems and follow detailed patterns to the latter.
Once you read this book, you will never see your environment the same way again. Lynn Rasmussen put in this book all her effort to reprogram readers' viewpoint of things. One of the tactics she uses to do that is using vast examples of obvious things to you. For instance, she uses examples of traffic flows, insect colonies, cloud formation, etc., to explain system self-organization. She not only uses examples to explain system processes but also includes comparative definitions, features of the processes, and graphic models for easy digestion by readers.
Moreover, I applaud the chapters' organization. Someone who has no idea about systems won't find it difficult to read this book, which introduces the topic in a more understandable way and builds on it with each succeeding chapter. For example, it begins with "organizing the system," then "growing and balancing the system," then "maintaining the system," etc. This approach to building understanding for the next stage of the book makes it unique.
Although the editors missed countable things, it does not distract from the book's magnitude. I don't have any substantial changes or downsides to comment on Seeing. Therefore, I rate it 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it to people who are curious about secrets of this world.
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Seeing
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon