Daddy, Why are People so Complex?
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in World Futures
- Vol. 62 (6), 464-472
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02604020600826071
Abstract
The implications of Warren McCulloch's 1945 concept of heterarchy are analyzed in terms of human value and motivational systems. The results demonstrate the near-impossibility of predicting behavior on the basis of any hierarchical scheme, or even which among a set of hierarchical schemes will be selected as the basis of a behavioral choice. Thus, for example, people regularly say one thing and do another.Keywords
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