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Whereas analogical relations characterized preliterate rationality, logical connections mark literate reasoning. As we enter post-literate cultures via instant electric media, cybernetic concepts that we have increasingly used to describe human individual and social behavior can no longer keep pace with today’s reality; they are now superseded by the process patterns of an ecological rationality that perceives existence directly in its own terms.
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Nevitt, B. (1978). Ecological Rationality Beyond Cybernetics. In: Rose, J. (eds) Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93104-8_214
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