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Presentation to the World Future Societies Annual Conference. Panel on Complexity and Futures Research
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Emergent Futures
At the Limina of Complexity and Consciousness
Between Epochs
Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next
We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship
Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next
Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite
• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory
We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship
Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next
Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite
• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory
We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship
Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next
We Must Entirely Rethink &Understand Our Humanity
Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite
• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory
We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship
Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next
We Need a Vision of a New Eden and a New Global Ethic
We Must Entirely Rethink &Understand Our Humanity
Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite
• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory
We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship
Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next
We Need a Vision of a New Eden and a New Global Ethic
We Must Entirely Rethink &Understand Our Humanity
We Need a Global Conversation and a New Enlightenment
Second Order Consequences
“Robot psychology still prevails in our society and, even more, seems necessary to keep it going: reducing man to the lower levels of his animal nature, manipulating him into a feeble-minded automaton of consumption or a marionette of political power, systematically stultifying him by a perverse system of education …turning Jeffersonian democracy into a manipulated herd of cattle.”
Second Order Consequences
“Robot psychology still prevails in our society and, even more, seems necessary to keep it going: reducing man to the lower levels of his animal nature, manipulating him into a feeble-minded automaton of consumption or a marionette of political power, systematically stultifying him by a perverse system of education …turning Jeffersonian democracy into a manipulated herd of cattle.”
(Bertalanffy, 1968)
Second Order Consequences
Complexity Complex Adaptive Systems Offer a Holistic New Framework of Tools and Perspectives to Ease the Transition Between Epochs
• Self Organization
• Synchronicity
• Effortless Action
• Organismic Frame
• New Metaphors
• Autopoeisis
• Strange Attractors
• Initial Conditions
• Local Minimums
• Turbulent Flow
Consciousness But There are Many Obstacles to Understanding and Using Complex Adaptive Systems
Functional Fixedness
Physical & Mental Blind Spots
Cultural Programming
Mechanistic & Deterministic Models
Reductionist Empiricism
Cultivating the Network of Minds and the Mind of the NetworkRefocus on Human Meaning & Purpose
There Are Strategies for Overcoming These Obstacles
Cultivating the Network of MindsLearning Community/Appreciative Systems
Storytelling - Indigenous Wisdom
Transpersonal & Quantum Metaphors
Multi-Spectral Work Place Environments
T. Autonomous Zones
Cultivating the Mind of the Network
Self Organizing Ad Hoc Mesh Networks
Social Network Agents
Active Packets & Beneficial Viruses
Convolving Cyber and Physical Spaces
Serious Games...