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The Freedom Club
and the UniBomber. IT all comes from eating too much honey say Rabbit.
It all comes from not having doors big enough says Pooh.
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The pages change all the time with Synergy - the whole is more than the sum of the parts. .
Which brings up Out of Contol by Kevin Kelly. Kelly makes a number of points in his profound book.
DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
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The topics include but are not limited to:
INTERNET:
The Internet as a life form: Current and future happening on the Internet - new products and services and the average user needs to know about like web editors,
FOR EXAMPLE POINTCAST,
DO GET POINTCAST at
http://www.pointcast.com It now uses Netscape and is something to
see the future NOW
From POINTCAST
Insider you go the Radio Waves then the Internet
TODAY
From our newbie page
The next stop is Two Cows for free softare
WEBEDIT WebEdit by Nesbitt
WEBBER is another excellent http editor at http://www.csdcorp.com/
Connect to http://www.windows95.com has a magazine in Adobe. You will need to download a FTP, program, chat from WS-ftp32 and MIRC chat are the ones I use and recommend. http://www.windows95.com/apps/ has under Windows 95 Download site the Ws-FTP32 that I use and several other basic tools. Use the search function for McAfee Anti-virus etc..
We will find other good places to visit VDO on www.PBS.org etc.
I am a great fan of ALTRAVISTA
The machine/software we call Body types, uses we call communities, survival and extinctions.
The material on this is under /documents and /new. PLEASE SHARE what you think will be of interest to others. That's synergy.
If Berry can do it anyone can.
The Styles Temperament Game
The grouping can be very confusing. Let us see if this makes sense to you. Take the test below and find your type.
Then find the name we use for that type below. Use your FTP program ( see http://www.wiredbrain.com/ newbie.htm to File transfer protocol toftp.wiredbrain.com USER pflaump PASSWORD synergy UNIX standard binary transfer to upload your personal description into the correct files under /public_html STYLES /to the directory that contains your type. Here you can put a FREE home page. I will help with the edit if you need it.
The site then works like a BBS. You open the site in your browser and there are the messages from people who share the same type with you. This is a simple way to start a group. We have been working for two years to improve inter personal communications using the internet. We started with E-mail, a BBS, now web pages and soon an interactive site of our own.
The gateway to the Styles directories and groups
This sorter is available as an interactive inventory on the WWW
at http://sunsite.unc.edu/jembin/mb.pl First Take the Sorter
The other
site:
Chris Rust * "I'd rather die peacefully Technogizmologist * in my sleep crust@esd112.wednet.edu * like my grandfather Battle Ground * than terrified and screaming Alternative Learning Prog. * like his passengers." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The temperament sorter from Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Bates is a clue to how you react to the world and your learning style. A simple method of sorting by style. You are not one self; but many selves - depends on conditions, diet, environment, mood, etc. PICK A GROUP - then SEND ME E-MAIL with you name and group (names in styles match file names in /styles )<
SOFT-TOUCH:
The Virtual Classroom and Office: Interactive Work groups.
Education: On-line training, business services: How the technology can be more interactive.
The Internet as a ( WIN's ) wide area network that works like a ( LAN's ) local area network. Work groups, WinFrame, NETBIOS, and other peer-to-peer connections are tried and reviewed. Send us examples, like the list of corporate universities, special needs and methods. We will discuss Adobe Acrobat this week. ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/applications/acrobat/windows
Groupware is a "blanket term" that covers a variety of software used by groups of people. Conferencing software is a sub-class, which is dedicated to exchange and archiving of messages (such as Lotus Notes or First Class). FORUM extends that to include hypermedia organization, integration of in-context links, and capability for structured discourse. Totally synchronous conferencing lacks the advantages of the anytime-anyplace capabilities of asynchronous conferencing. Problems with schedule conflicts and large disparities in time zones go away.
One last item: We have a new publication that you might find of interest. It is entitled "Enriching Computer-mediated Group Learning by Coupling Constructivism with Collaborative Learning." It was published in the March 1996 issue of journal of Instructional Science. It can be found on the World Wide Web.
EDUCATION is in http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/ethos/ethos open files
GETTING IT TOGETHER: Management practices, quality and learning in organization, public schools and the Evolution of Life, physics and metaphysics - Who are we and what are we doing here ?
MANAGEMENT is in /documents/logos/logos = meaning PUBLIC POLICY benefit/cost and MBO is in the same place
The more metaphysical aspects are in //pathos = feeling and psychology ( Sufi )
Case Studies are in documents Psychological and learning styles in STYLES http://www.wiredbrain.com/psycholo for transpersonal theories Sample Pages in PAGES includes free home pages for members and ICONS and /images to share on // and in /
---------- From: CrbnBlu@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 1996 12:02 AM To: Peter Pflaum Cc: CrbnBlu@aol.com Subject: feedback request Peter,Based on some of your previous comments on the Learning Org list I was wondering if you would be so kind as to read the page at the following location and provide me with some thoughts as to how it strikes you?
Systemic University on the Net (SUN)
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. To:Inteligensia - http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~ummo/fellows.html I was impressed when you said you put out ads for future minded people. That surely will attract some new comers.
Gene Bellinger CrbnBlu@aol.com
For the article from Thursday, May 30, 1996 9:24:46 AM see purpose.txt, informat.txt and formlife.txt Ares about the Life on Mars project Friday, May 24, 1996 see love.txt and natural.txt ( below on first.htm ) mother.txt and welfare.txt for "Small Schools and teen age mothers" a new copy of "CHARTER SCHOOLS", informat.txt for Information theory, and the Internet as a life form, purpose.txt, randayn for Ayn Rand and the new right, Janus.txt, biod.txt for biodiversity, downsizing and the Internet: THEY ALL are put on GO TO new as love.txt, seauton.txt, mother.txt, welfare.txt, charter.txt, literacy, computer literacy etc. Social Biology
Project on the internet Market services
The site of our own
will be working soon.
Try it - you will like it.
The
Corporate University in the 21st Century FOR EXAMPLE
For the past 17 years, Christie Communication's vision has been to provide effective, efficient, and flexible training materials at an affordable price:
Hi Peter:
Wow! You've got all the qualifications. I also like to ask if you might be interested becoming a member of the CTIO curriculum board. We're looking for individuals with extensive backgrounds in education and training for the board. For more information check out more details at:
http://teleport.com/~ctio/details.htm
The next step is for you to determine which course(s) you'd like to develop.
There is a partial list of potential courses on the CTI Online "courses page," but feel free to dream up some topics of your own. A few potential instructors wanted to know how to come up with topics. I recommended to them that they visit their local bookstore and look at book titles in the business/self-help/computer sections to come up with ideas. But, with your background, I'll bet you'll have no trouble with subjects. See a program in basic supervision - We're asking instructors to have at least one course ready to be posted on our courses page by the August 1st grand opening.
So... visit the page above. Let me know the subject you're going to develop...and go at it! Keep in touch. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please let me know.
Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Steven Geigle
Corporate Training Institute Online
ctio@ctio.com
see test page STYLES /demo.htm
Corporate Training Institute on-line http://www.teleport.com/~ctio/instruct.htm
Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word processor and E-mail it back to me at wiredbrain@earthlink.net before Friday June 14th.
Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning ( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason involves management, learning organizations, education, economics and policy ) Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology : Zuboff's
The Age of the Smart Machine
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You click on your office/school, which is rented space on the Internet.
The Executive Suite location is near the mall, bank, library, post office and other net services. As you enter the building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual office - which this document is a copy. aDD you comments ideas - and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of facts for you.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct, hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable, predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies, freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous, evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady "progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective, with different time frames and view points at one and the same time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, ( add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before, leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is organized in communities make the biggest difference in our lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central power source, to more diversified production using electrical energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications, transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business, political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth, "earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment, where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline, takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING, new faces, new rules, new questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks: Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord Keynes shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts ( much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ). This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference between today's price and a future lower price. This is how people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold ( the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money and the price of stuff is way out of line. If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat Robinson.
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RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land, place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character as a creature to create an image of our selves and our environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any "objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth, color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The reason is the real paradigm shift from a machine model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective, with different time frames and view points at one and the same time.
I live on a barrier island along the East Central Atlantic coast
of Florida. This barrier island extends from Cape Canaveral
thirty five miles north to Ponce Inlet. ( Image of Light House ).
For twenty miles North from the Kennedy Space Center there is the
Canaveral National seashore, (image of dunes) the last fifteen
miles is New Smyrna Beach, the south half in the county and north
half in the city, which is mostly on the "mainland" In the last
decade a wall of condos has been build on the Volusia county land
to the south extending down to the Turtle Mound made of oyster
shells by older native Americans, the marker to the National Sea
Shore.
The city was founded by Greek and Minorican servants brought by British merchant adventurers in the 1760's as the biggest single planed colony in North America. It failed and the remaining people moved to St. Augustine at the time of the rebellion of the American colonies.
My wife family came here in the 1950's. ( Image of the Crawford
ramp )
At that time the beach was broad and flat, the ocean shadow for a long way out. Now the tide comes to the remains of the dune lines. Houses on Buthune beach are threaten by storms. In the last few years there has been a federal court case under the endangered species act because of the nesting sea turtles. Local people want to continue to drive on the beach. We wrote recently to Endangered/Threatened Species Permit Coordinator U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
As long-time residents of the north beach, New Smyrna Beach, we are very familiar with local beach ecology. In the last few years, this beach area has significantly diminished while auto traffic has greatly increased. It is only a question of time before cars will be forced off the beach. We may as well do it now.
For more than two decades it has been obvious that people, cars, and turtles cannot safely share the same space. In the last few years, high tides frequently come well past the hard sand. During the turtle nesting season, the area set aside for parking is in soft sand where cars make deep ruts, often get stuck, and leave no area where children can safely play. (See rest of letter bellow )
We tend to see the earth as stable.
These barrier islands are reefs produced not long ago, in the last period of global warming, when the ocean was 20 to 40 feet deeper.
The planet is warming again, the hot-house effects, the growing and exploding sun ( now 1/3 stronger than when life began 3.5 billion years ago ), and who knows what ? We do not live or can ever live is stable times.
The Internet as a new life form has direction and meaning.
The meaning comes from synergy, field vectors, in a very complex system.
The Internet, maybe the most complex life form so far in earth's evolution. We can't know what the meaning is, but can only draft a successive approximation. I trust others will join on the path.
The most important idea and theory of our time is the Werner Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. It is a lot more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of Complementarily is to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles.
The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.
The separation by Descartes of dualism of mind and matter is replaced by a Cartesian shift. Matter moves from here to there without going through the intermediate space, objects act on each other at a distance without any physical connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh.
This is the stuff of which dreams are made, the forms of things unknown, from the poets pen turn airy nothing into hallucinations that have a name, that name is the material world, that name is spirit. Some raise in the world of hard physical objects have a problem seeing these kinds of statements as having any "meaning"
The meaning is we effect and "create" our worlds, as the uncertainty principle says.
The world is the airy stuff which we give place and name and solid reason. It starts with vision, the world is "not" what we see and think it is.
The nature of life, Kepler's Facultas formatrix, Galvani's Life force, Goethe's Gestaltung, Bergson's elan vital, Leibniz's monades, describe an innate drive with reasons.
The reasons maybe unknowable with any material mechanism. We may not like or understand the explanation. "Reculer pour mieux sauter" means to step back to take a new leap forward.
The same general paradigm how appears in biology and in physics at the center of the atom or the cell.
From Adam to atom there are more than concrete material forces at play. We are creatures of the big brain that happened without reason ?
Humans developed mind far greater than we still know how to use. This never happens in nature, why should it ? By mistake ? Creatures evolve as required, on demand, as needed, not in advance of any use. Or is there something else going on that requires intent, direction and design ?
The Ghost in the Machine, ( Deus ex Machina ) Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Arthur Koestler's statement of uncertainty is that no information system can include a fully operational model of itself. Complex systems exist in a hall of mirrors and dynamic open systems. Life uses negative entropy. Life is always on the move, with some intent in "mind"
The "mind" of the universe, the biosphere, or people is not a brain, nerves, electricity, glands, transmitters, bone, body, or any-thing only.
There is some-spirit else going on; the father, the son, and the holy ghost - took the last train to the coast, the day the music died. If I told you, the secret of life, you wouldn't believe me and why should you.
It's always troubled me to be around people who think they know what they don't and can't possibly be so sure of, they clearly find good reasons not to know.
They refuse to consider the alternatives. Evolution and creation has their true believers. We all create mental maps and impose our ideas on what we perceive. Our tools of perception require a lot of filters or there is too much noise and too little information, like on television. Awareness is always limited and incomplete. What is troublesome is the firm instance on limited vision.
The wilful refusal to see the Big picture or alternative viewpoints. Psychological strategies all involve opening doors of awareness closed by emotional barriers and attachments to defensive walls built to close out new ideas. A proper respect and feeling for ambiguity, complexity is basic to understanding and rather rare.
For every good new idea there are many that are not new or good.
The Gaia theory had a problem with the lack of understanding about purpose and direction in nature. Direction in evolution is NOT that lizards desired to fly and grew wings, but that there is a context and meaning in the unknown forces of nature. Lizards would never grow feathers, have hollow bones, and take off by chance or random mutation. We have the record of early birds that evolved from Dinosaurs but such a complex synergy must have direction, be part of a bigger matrix, involved with vectors that we can't be observed with the models and tools we have been using. Lovelock's Daisy world is a simple model of how feedback produces a direction and purpose in complex systems.
The is the soul of general systems theory.
Darwin's Origin of Species doesn't have a sound explanation of how evolution works. We still don't know the synergy and methods life forms use in the origin of species. We do know a lot about the parts but not much about wholes.
The drift of population characteristics, the survival of those best adapted to changing environments, mutations, extinctions, can explain, given enough time; variety within and among species but not the vast complexity of biological communities and their origins.
We know how populations of finches become specialist in their ecology.
These adaptations can not make silk purses out of sows ears. Genetic information has room for survival strategies within the basic rules and limits of the information given.
Genetic drift and random mutations can't explain rather sudden arrival of new structures and rules, at the creation of species.
The Australian marsupials developed independently but along common paths from simple shrews and mice, to wolves and kangaroos.
They have a lot in common with their placenta mammal relatives. How did that happen ? How did the eye evolve independently in several different types of organisms, and how do the cells of the liver know their role and not become eye tissue.
There is a lot more than tangible apparent forces at work. Rather mystic communications take place in the biosphere, the whole is a lot more than the sum of the parts.
CONTINUED: ( Letter about Turtles and the cars on the Beach) Mary Anne runs on the beach early every morning and frequently sees turtles nesting and turtles hatching. It is glaringly apparent that vehicular beach traffic and turtle habitat are totally incompatible. In Volusia County a vocal minority believes that beach driving is some sort of personal right. Since the beach belongs to all citizens of the State of Florida and is not a possession of Volusia County or local governments only, it is the duty of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to see that this irreplaceable resource is not destroyed by local politics. Our family has lived in this area for five generations. Turtles have nested for millions of years.
The Endangered Species Act does not include children and runners. Our experiences, however, in dodging automobile traffic certainly reflect on the dangers experienced by nesting turtles and their hatchlings.
For example, just this morning on a four-mile run to the inlet and back, Mary Anne dodged three cars which forced her to jump into the ocean to avoid being hit. Running in the soft sand was especially difficult due to deep ruts caused by cars.
The tide was high and all cars observed were driving close to the sand dunes in soft sand. Speed limit signs were floating in the water and every car observed was exceeding the ten-mile per hour speed limit.
There was not a law enforcement officer in sight. Although our family enjoys the beach, we are often unable to use it because of the traffic. We have real concerns about the safety of our children, not so much because of the ocean, but because of the cars. If people have so much trouble surviving at New Smyrna Beach, how much trouble can a tiny hatchling have? It seems obvious that while a rule of "no vehicular traffic" can be enforced, a rule of "some vehicular traffic" cannot.
We applaud the bravery of the two local residents who initiated the "Turtle Suit." We have faith that those in authority will closely examine the issues and consequences of this strange practice of beach driving and its effects on fish and wildlife.
The Internet as a life
form works well as analogies, concepts, poems and theories to
help us understand what is going on when things are change so
fast. Our childish minds are formed in an industrial age that
is dying and a new world order is rising from the Far West, that
from Europe is the Far East - ( where East meets West ). This
site asks the question: can an old dog learn new tricks, can we
get a new prospective ? Can we get our Yin and Yang together ?
The Fifth Discipline
The steps in boot-camp, in Jesuit soldiers for Christ, in the traditional Mass, in Makarenko's Road to Life, in Brain Washing, re socialization, AA, follow this pattern:
The colors are Sufi codes from Rumi, 12th century ) Covey = proactive
The lessons - This is the world as "/de" know it - you can try harder - Is that the best you can do ? Covey = Begin with the end in mind.
The rites of passage - Take eat - do this and remember - Grace be with you - the life force is yours for the asking;
The emerald city ) = See the big picture, Thanksgiving to the Lord and the Marines and faith and belief - the way of knowing;
Current rethinking about the evolution of the planet earth, the biosphere, and social-biology involves new models or paradigms of punctuated equilibria, chance and chaos. Illya Prigogine, author of Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature, NY: Bantam Books, 1984 and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 1977 wrote that chance and necessity ( Jacques Monod ) cooperate instead of opposing one another.
The application of
themodynamics to the disequalium of life with it's unsteady
states give us new viewpoints - altra, ultra-vistas as well as a
higher
viewpoint alta-vista, broader perspectives.
Life is a form of negative or anti-entropy, which itself is a type of anti-matter energy. This is the glue of the universe. Someday the great central field on/off up/down strong/weak then/now - hot (active)/cold (still) here/there ( 6th dimensions ) theory will put it all together in a way we can understand. So far we have talked about five dimensions, there are seven but some can't be talked about. We can't measure the "life-force" but it goes under the name of the spirit or soul. Because we can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. You can't prove a negative and there is no positive test for anti- entropy. But it makes more sense than any of the alternatives - and like democracy is messy and is not simple. Complex systems require knowing about the parts and the whole, or general systems methods and thinking. It takes knowing who we are and what our dreams mean. If this is weird to you - so be it. Like oriental music it is an acquired taste.
The universe doesn't care what I think or your think -
there are truths beyond our options or opinions. We try to put
ourselves in a meaningful relationship with the universal truth,
not the other way around.
Dynamic energy fields have physical counterparts in the core of the atom. From Adam to atom profound knowledge has had an intuitive understanding of fluid dynamics and energy fields.
The
Tao,
hermetic metaphysics, and the other sounds of the universe have
"known" the nature of balance and order, chaos and
noise, at the very
core of time and being.
There is no determinism in human affairs but patterns and interactions that must exist within the "laws of nature."
The spirit of the Mother Goddess ( Charlene Spretnak ) lives in a dangerous and sometimes abrupt, indifferent void. Human institutions are part of nature.
They are not
"un-natural" and are shaped by natural forces.
Cultural and social evolution
of people and technology form general ecological systems.
Organizations, business, churches, schools, governments, cities,
families, are
all part of nature. BUT, human choice and hopes, desires,
passions, beliefs, can create unstable dynamics - outside the
groove -
ecologically unsound and life threatening. Modern economic
systems build on
cheap energy, mono-culture, exploitation of the environment, and
rapid population growth is short term and will not work.
The VISION: is not a pleasant one - We have broken the covenant -
RE: Beyond Reductionism - New Perspectives in the Life Sciences
A suggestion for a second Alpbach Symposium, the first was held in 1968 in the Alpine Resort of that name.
Social theory about human organizations, business, economics, governments, sociology, and government were not included. Are social institutions not a life science ? If not what then ? Are humans not a life form ? Are human social interactions not a form of evolution ?
I think the feeling then and now is that organizational, social and political theory is mostly ungrounded, only fads and opinion, not science. In the terms of semantics social science has no references, like the law, is sound and fury signifying nothing but habits of mind and social controls and who has the best argument.
The fields are not based on fact. Evolution, physics, chemistry, biology are facts.
The theories that explain them are fact based. How are any social science or political theory including economics based on facts ? Information but without understanding of the fundamentals.
If economics, the hard social science was factual, there would be less disagreement among professionals. You can line up economists from here to the moon and not reach a conclusion. When they almost all did agree, deficits would cause inflation, they were wrong. Without a firm base is life science, social science doesn't really count. See references at the bottom for basic social science as defined here.
The participants in the first conference included:
Ludwig von Bertalanffy,
The founder of General Systems an ecological model of complex interactions. His idea was that a general language of systems could be applied in most fields, sources, sinks, integrations, partners, dependency, centripetal, cooperation, altruism, synergy, adaptability, etc. This was applied by Jay Forester to industrial dynamics at MIT. Peter Senge, at MIT Slone, called general systems the learning organization and the fifth discipline.
Jerome S. Bruner, Beyond the information given; how the "mind" works with general systems, a learning theory.
Viktor E. Frankl,
The meaning of life, Logos theory, as a survivor of the camps his little book is a classic.
The life force is a magnificent illusion, a connection to dreams, and a positive attitude. Man's search for meaning ( the title of the book ) gives life force - those without higher goals will die under stress. Abe Maslow was not there, but added transcendence to his hierarchical order of human motivations, in the further reaches of human nature.
Arthur Koestler, writer. Jean Piaget, and other psychologist and zoologist.
Life is more than the sum of it's parts. It contains synergy as it's core. James Lovelock, the Gaia
Theory and Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould's Punctuated Equilibria evolutionary ideas; Richard Leakey, would now be included in such a seminar other members could be of a second meeting let by Bill Moyers of PBS:
Se e references on SYSTEMS THEORY
The
Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York, Basic Books, 1985)
The Reckoning (New York, William Morrow, 1986)
The Age of Unreason (Boston, Mass. Harvard Business School Press) 1989
Theory Z. New York: Avon Books.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991)
The Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
The Triarchic Mind: A new theory of Human Intelligence (New York, Penguin, 1988) Frames of Mind Heinemann 1983
Other possible authors etc:
The Evolution of Consciousness
The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
The Orgins of the Modern Mind
The Silent Language -
Lewis Thomas -
The Fragile Species,
Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches,
The Riddle of Culture
Classic:
Theory into Practice, Increasing Professional Effectiveness,(San Francisco, Jossey Bass, 1974) and Schon D. Organizational Learning: A
Theory in Action Perspective (Addison-Wesley 1978) Reasoning, Learning and Action,(San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1982)
The Leaning Ivory Tower and Changing Organizations (New York, McGraw-Hill 1966) and Benne, K.D. and Chin, R.
The Planning of Change, Reading in the applied Behavioral Sciences (New York, Holt, Rienhart & Winston , 1964) and Nanis, B. Leaders (Harper & Row) 1986
The Functions of the Executive (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1939)
The World as a Total System (Sage, Beverly Hills Calif)
The Process of Education(Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1961) and Goodnow, J.J. and Austin, G.A. A study of Thinking (New York Science Editions, 1967)
The School and Society(Chicago,
The University Press 1956) and Education and Democracy(New York, MacMillian 1916) Democracy and Education (Free Press 1966)
The Practice of Management (McGraw-Hill 1957)
The Human Organization (McGraw-Hill, New York 1967)
The Road to Life: An epic in Education. New York: Oriole Editions.
The further Reaches of Human Nature
The Human Side of Enterprise
The Rise and Decline of Nations (Yale University Press 1982)
The Principles of Scientific Management (New York, Harper & Row, 1911) also Fayol, Henri in Gulick and Urwick "Papers on the Science of Administration" 1937
The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, P.O. Box 176, Los Altos CA 94023
Dr. Peter Pflaum
RE: Corporate Universities: An example of Hypertext lesson
Collaboration: hypertext office cooperative file: HOCF
Save this file on your C drive as hocf.htm and
hocf.txt. When you open the file
in your browser you have a hypertext document. If you open it in
notepad or WP or Word as a plain text
ANSI document you see the codes. You then can comment, add
material and mail it pack to
wiredbrain@earthlink.net.
The
Corporate University in the 21st CenturyFOR EXAMPLE
The file is on http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents as well as NEW. You can go toftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard and upload the file. I have looked in AltaVista but there are a lot more plac es to look.
The goal is to have a complete list with mail and home pages of private company schools and universities.
Then something about their programs in organizational learning. Does the program improve general proformance, systems thinking, team building, self study, problem solving, thinking and creative effort or is it industrial training: top down, just a fancy name for training in the Mickey Mouse process, SOP.
We will have our site where this type of collaboration can take place on an intergrated work groups office package. Using MicroSoft office you can open this document edit and replace on a remote site. You can connect to address books, e-mail, data base, charts, graphic editors, all it one smooth package.
The advantages of HTTP documents should be clear. You can click to connect.
Motorola University is hosting in Sept. a meeting of business universities. I knew there was a Mickey Mouse University at Disney Land, A McDonald's hamburger tech, GM Engineering and Management Institute has had huge training programs for years;
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The first class group "Administrators" to report
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles: NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
We were discussing the Internet
as a new life form.
Dr.
Peter Pflaum
SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.com/
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