Jumping Out Of The System
- Jootsing or “Jumping Out Of The System” is a technique to encourage creativity in science, philosophy, and the arts.
- All systems have rules. With jootsing, a system’s rules can be used as a starting point to work against.
- The term was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature.
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Jootsing means “jumping out of the system."
Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett describes the process of understanding a system in order to step outside of it as “jootsing,” using a term coined by Douglas Hofstadter.
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