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The Synergy Journal: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be rich.
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YES YES YES PLEASE At 04:44 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Charlene Kingston wrote: >Peter, > >I have read your posts on the Intuition listserver the last couple of >months and just read the note about the Synergy Journal. I reviewed the >draft copy. What I am wondering is if you are asking for contributions >from other writers. Can you give me a general idea of the things you >would be looking for so I can assess if this is a venue I might be >interested in? > >I have been publishing a print newsletter for almost two years that >supports and encourages people who are shifting to see their life as a >spiritual journey. My website has a place to beging electronic >publication, and I am, in fact, preparing to publish the first on-line >issue. You are certainly welcome to skim through my website, which at >this time mostly contains the on-line version of my journal writing >workshop called "/driting
The Journey". > >Charlene >Crow Communications >crow@getnet.com >http://www.getnet.com/~crow
Revans,
R.W. The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
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
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You click on your office/school, which is rented space on the Internet.
The
Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision 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 and the market 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.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum, I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be quoted on them? as: synergy journal?) (pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading
Clifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this - CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a superb book that you may have read as well,
Will McWhinney, Paths of Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
cheers,
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:
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Keynes Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
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, ( on Margin ) 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 ?
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.
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.
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 )
The lessons - This is the world as "/de" know it - you can try harder - Is that the best you can do ?
in Covey from personal independence to inter-dependence.
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;
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
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