摘要：Our conscious mind enables us to grasp complexity, but almost forces us to think in a linear and mechanistic way about “solutions” to the “problems” we face. This paper is an attempt to confront that dilemma of humanity, which may be the foundation of our growing divorce from life, as exemplified by rapid climate warming, loss of biodiversity and over-exploitation of resources, as well as by increasing social inequality. We explore here the multiplicity of descriptions and approaches currently used to address the huge challenges of humanity´s self-defeating course. If we recognize that complex systems do not change through purposeful planning, it follows that we need a shift in epistemology to start asking better questions, appreciating complexity rather than suppressing it. Exploring our blind spots may bring hints for the path forward towards reconciling humanity with life as a whole, through mutual learning. This paper reviews the state of these questions, and it obviously does not bring the answers, but gives us hope that the learning process can continue in fundamentally new ways.
