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Reification is limitation

...The moment we've accepted that the purpose of information and of knowledge is "objectivity" – "the scientific method" naturally became the winner. We n

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There is no invisible hand

With the values we have, the only thing we are capable to create is the [[power structures|power structure]]!

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Main Page

...ry scene. One necessary condition of successfully continuing our existence is the creation of an atmosphere of hope that the huge problems now confrontin Which is a new kind of institution. And I make this proposal concrete and a

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IMAGES

...his is something no culture has really faced before. The typical situation is information scarcity. […] Lack of information can be very dangerous. [… ...ant, what is useful, what is not useful, where they live in a culture that is simply committed, through all of its media, to generate tons of information

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OLD IMAGES

...t-moving civilisation. The candle headlights represent the way information is created and used, which we have indiscriminately inherited from the past. ...but as a part of this reality, or a system within a system, whose purpose is to fulfil certain specific roles. Under this epistemology, the creative act

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WJR Thread

...Cybernetics, Wiener observed that our communication or societal "feedback" is broken. And that we must restructure it, and other systems, by (as we may s ...t chapter, "Information, Language and Society". If his technical language is unfamiliar, you may interpret the word "homeostasis" simply as the capabili

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CHG Thread

...ee the world? In what way might our societal evolution be redirected? What is it that we now take for granted that may quite thoroughly change? Can you i ...an instrument for communication, but for worldview sharing. Communication is in act ''sacrificed''...

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NEG Thread

The threat of personal meaninglessness is ordinarily held at bay because routinised activities, in combination with b

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OBD Thread

What we are talking about here is really the pivotal point of our evolutionary entanglement – leading to a The rest is T.B.A.

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Polyscopy

...ion, reflect the state of the art knowledge in relevant areas. Our mission is to foster the evolution of socio-technical systems in pivotal domains inclu ...ed further. The most important result we expect of those dialogs, however, is the evolution of a public sphere or of a "collective mind" that will be cap

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Temp1

<div class="col-md-3"><h4>– If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.</h4></div> ...cting the dots" (as our logo might suggest), is what knowledge federation is really all about. So imagine if we would lose this all-important capability

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Old Main

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>– If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.</h2></div> <div class="col-md-6">The quote in the heading is by Sir Isaac Newton from 1675. Imagine if we would lose this all-important

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STORIES

...x be... then... It is meaningless to argue whether x "really is" as defined. Independent, that is, from the beliefs of our traditions; and from the social "r

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IMAGES-OLD

...imagine a change in our socially sanctioned capability to comprehend that is comparable to the one that the Enlightenment brought? ...ta of matter, or the social mechanisms by which our shared idea of reality is constructed, or the neurological mechanisms that govern our awareness – b

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Douglas Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution

<div class="col-md-9">This is not only about technology! It's "new thinking" that leads to an incomparabl ...y of thinking." In what follows the main points are illustrated. The story is told in the book – but can be sufficiently reconstructed from the documen

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VISION

<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Our vision is a whole new division, specialization and organization of knowledge work.</h ...kill to do that – and so the only way they are using this nervous system is to broadcast information.</div>

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Knowledge Work Has a Flat Tire

...his main point that the question is not what needs to be done because that is clear, but whether we will be able to mobilize the public to implement the ...rhetoric was poignant: “The smart heads have found out that the climate is changing because of the climate gas CO2 in the air. CO2 concentration has i

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Knowledge Federation History

...n_community The Knowledge Federation community 2010]] (on our own website) is a random sample of ten participants pointing to the transdisciplinary chara ...t led to the ZIG Project, through which the prototype drafted in Barcelona is being practically realized; and to The Game-Changing Game as a generic proc

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APPLICATIONS

...w kind of academic result—which is not telling us how the world is, but designed to be part of the world and inte A prototype is

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TQPortal

...ng hypothesis is that ''every act'' (node created or edited) at the portal is or can be a part of one or many structured '''conversations'''. The platfor The platform is in the process of adding a full Role-playing Game system which includes the

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CONVERSATIONS

...uld be like in 2050; I called my contribution "World in the year 2000". It is not possible to predict what the world will be like in 2050, I exp ...horeographed in a multitude of ways; our concrete plan, already in motion, is to institute knowledge federation at the Inter University C

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STORIES-OLD

...] <center>Even if we don't mention him explicitly, this elephant is the main hero of our stories.</center> ...argest challenge to communication! A shared [[paradigm|paradigm]] is what enables us to communicate. How can we make sense of new thing

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Elephant

...t ideas of our best minds now compose a different paradigm! So it is only in that new context that their meaning and value can be understood.</p ...homas J. Watson, IBM chair and CEO, who in the 1940s predicted that "there is a world market for about five computers"). It didn't help. And so we were a

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Mirror ideogram

...whatever knowledge work we have gives us an access to reality as it really is, and that we must stick to it if our knowledge work – and in particular a ...reated the scientific method and the ethos of the disciplines. And that it is us, academics, who are creating the world we see around us, by looking at i

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Vannevar Bush

...or threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.”

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SECOND-Main

...ry scene. One necessary condition of successfully continuing our existence is the creation of an atmosphere of hope that the huge problems now confrontin ...“There is only one quality more important than ‘know-how’…… This is ‘know-what’ by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purpos

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Main Page-OLD

"If I have seen further," Sir Isaac Newton famously declared, "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The point of departure of our init ...a new institution (the [[transdiscipline|transdiscipline]]) that is capable of developing this new new approach to knowledge as an academic and

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SECOND-APPLICATIONS

Which is the mother of all our problems; which the Modernity ideogram points to. ...em; the action with which the change of our evolutionary course must begin is self-organization; by which we become new systems—capable of tur

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Authentic Hercegovina

...project. [http://www.infinitiheritage.ba/index.php/en/ Infiniti Heritage] is the project’s institutional home. ...ination of our public and private lives by media-orchestrated spectacles) is at the core of the core of the more familiar global issues. See [https://ww

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Systemic innovation

*** This is only a placeholder *** <div class="col-md-7"><h3>This conversation is not about innovation</h3>

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A small practical example

...em>]], and when they still had control over our children's education, here is what [[William James]] had to tell them about the subject of attention. ...d to deliver ethical messages, by weaving them into interesting fables. It is what might compel our youngsters to train the body and the character, by do

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SECOND-STORIES

...e polyscopic methodology is about: The approach it enables is called scope design; where scopes are what ...technical language, this simplified view of an object or theme as a whole is called its aspect.

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Intuitive introduction to systemic thinking

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>Attention is a resource</h2></div> ...when the teachers were still in custody of young people's character, here is what [[William James]] had to tell them about this matter:

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APPLICATIONS-OLD

<div class="col-md-7">Our task here is to create a map of [[systemic innovation|systemic innovation]] / [ ...ly is, but to invite and orient an exploration – of a new frontier which is at least as promising and exciting as the exploration of the globe was back

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CONVERSATIONS-OLD

...bound to be different, relevant and meaningful. What makes the difference is the guiding principle we've proposed, to which we've given different names ...followed until the system of science became as rich and as profound as it is today. Could a new frontier of this kind and scale be opening up? And if it

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Dukkha

... it in the systems in which we live and work. This federation challenge is the theme of the first book of Knowledge Federation Trilogy. * While the book is being written, you may connect the dots yourself by browsing through blog p

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Narrow frame

...p with a way of looking at the world, a way of comprehending issues, which is far too narrow for comprehending even the very limited fragments o Here we explain why the king is completely naked.

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Culture

''Culture'' is ''cultivation'' of ''wholeness''. ...by the metaphor of planting and watering a seed. Notice what this metaphor is saying between the lines: A dissection and analysis of a seed, even with th

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Information holon

The ''information holon'' is the information format or "piece of information" (analogous to the book and

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Holotopia

Of course, the idea of candles as headlights is absurd. So why propose it? The core of our proposal is to change the relationship we have with information.

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Five insights

...in a similar light as we might see the mindset of the Middle Ages. Change is seen as imperative. ...insight is reached by looking differently. Each structural defect is resolved by embracing [[wholeness|wholeness]] as value. 

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It's the systems, stupid!

A function of a socio-technical system is to take everyone’s work as input, and turn it into socially useful effect

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Collective mind

Our civilization is like an organism that has rapidly grown in size, and got out of sync with i

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Reflection about the future of innovation

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>The system is us</h2></div> ...ially useful results. How well are they performing this task? How suitable is their structure?

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SECOND-CONVERSATIONS

...Peccei warned. When proper light has been turned on and our "new position" is clearly seen and comprehended, it will be clear that we have but one urgent The key practical question that remains is how to go about doing that.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

...slab" and "beam"), what the mason, and Wittgenstein, are really telling us is that the words find their meaning in a specific practical activity or "lang ...of our paradigm, of our academic "language game". An illustration is a lively little book titled "Wittgenstein's Poker". The book zooms in on sp

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Academia

<div class="col-md-7">Academia is the institutionalized academic tradition.</div> ...academia's development], where the motivation for this definition is made clear.

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Steps toward cultural revival

Michelangelo in the Vatican. Resolution to socialized reality is the creation of knowledge as a systemic component. That naturally leads to

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The Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is an international think tank created in 1968 to self-organize and become exa

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Aurelio Peccei

...nism essentially based on and aiming at man’s cultural development, that is, a substantial improvement in human quality throughout the world." "Human development is the most important goal."

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Myth

A myth is a popular belief that cannot be rationally verified, which serves certain p

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Dialog

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>The medium is the message</h2></div> <blockquote>The dialog is the relationship with information, and with each other, on which the ho

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SECOND-IMAGES

...his is something no culture has really faced before. The typical situation is information scarcity. […] Lack of information can be very dangerous. [… ...ant, what is useful, what is not useful, where they live in a culture that is simply committed, through all of its media, to generate tons of information

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Domain maps

A [[domain maps|domain map]] is an online representation of a domain of interest. The "domain of interest" ...ovides a view into the domain. Hence a [[domain maps|domain map]] is a [[boundary objects|boundary object]] between a domain of interes

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Symbolic

...hought a step further: The elections do serve a purpose, but that purpose is "symbolic" (they make people feel they were asked, and thereby legitimize

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Key point dialog

...the Key Point dialog [[prototypes|prototype]] David Bohm's dialog is energized and in effect turned into a cyclotron...

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Knowledge federation

Knowledge federation is a road sign, a rule of thumb, an axiom or a principle, pointing to a way in When capitalized, Knowledge Federation is an international community of practice, which has taken up the task of deve

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Holoscope

Holoscope is conceived and defined as the remedy to the [[narrow frame|narrow frame< ...t in front of our eyes, which now demand our attention. Holoscope is conceived as a challenge, a placeholder, to academia, to give the

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Wholeness

...d and well-functioning mechanism. This quality is lost when any vital part is dysfunctional or missing.

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Power structure insight

...em>vignette]] revealing the insight of a person who discovered it. It is completed by weaving that story with other related ones. The Power Structure insight, which is introduced here, is really a combination of three closely related insights.

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Power structure

A function of a socio-technical system is to take everyone’s work as input, and turn it into socially useful effect ...democracy, that we the people are not yet able to see, and our "democracy" is unable to handle.

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Transdiscipline

... is conceived as a new institutional template in knowlege work, which is capable of [[knowledge federation|federating knowledge]].</div

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Who made up our mind

The IT innovation is just a special case of the general phenomenon – that we reify the old sys

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Why the homo ludens propsered

...o ludens|homo ludens]]! Paradoxically – at the point where this is crucial – socialization, not knowledge, becomes our evolutionary guide!

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Reification is limitation

...The moment we've accepted that the purpose of information and of knowledge is "objectivity" – "the scientific method" naturally became the winner. We n

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There is no invisible hand

With the values we have, the only thing we are capable to create is the [[power structures|power structure]]!

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First step to liberation

...ower structures|power structure]]'s weapon of choice. The reality is the turf. Both are just two sides of a single coin.

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Socialized reality insight

This ideogram is only a placeholder. The real thing should be a house with failing foundatio The point here is to see the visible, mushrooming... cracks in the walls as just natural

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Narrow frame insight

...our culture's creation – it became clear that the "right" way to use it is to recreate it and continue recreating it consciously, so that we may see m <li>Scientific method – is a narrow frame; served well for some purposes, poorly for others;

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Convenience paradox insight

What needs to be illuminated here, by right information, is (1) the long-term effects of our choices and (2) our own ability to feel. H The little person is scratching his head, wondering which direction to take. Wants to have it ea

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Collective mind insight

...t a centrally important one: As the cyberneticians observed, communication is what really what turns a bunch of things into a system! ...his ideogram points to the main insight discussed here. The point is to see us all interconnected by modern IT as cells are connected in a human

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Prototypes: Holotopia

The Holotopia [[prototype|prototype]] is [[knowledge federation|knowledge federation]]'s proof of concept a ...y question or issue, and see it in new light. See it as a whole. Your task is to show what your flashlight can do, show what difference it can make. What

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Holotopia:Socialized Reality insight

...t what tends to remain hidden: the foundations on which knowledge is evaluated and developed, which serve as foundation to everything we create, ...ould they not see that the Earth moves, revolves around the Sun... It is, however, far more interesting and instructive to use this reference to und

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Holotopia:Five insights

The holotopia vision is made concrete in terms of five interrelated insights.</blockquote> <li>It is the power structure that created dysfunctional communication</li>

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Holotopia:The box

...at "great cultural revival" is the necessity; and that "human development" is the key. Imagine if we could use information to redirect our pursuit of hap ...hat remained obscure, and needs to be illuminated by suitable information, is (1) the long-term effects of our choices and (2) our own ability to feel. H

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Holotopia:Keywords

...we must approach it in its own terms. This collection of keywords is intended to provide an entry point to holotopia. Other keyword ...althy organism, and a whole and well-functioning mechanism. The point here is to see that it's not any detail as such, but the wholeness they co

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Holotopia:Convenience Paradox insight

...e one's palate. The five tones cause one's ears to go deaf". Finally, he is a popular icon of Taoism, the philosophy of living in accordance with the n ...er get rid of... "Correct action feels, and is effortless." The story here is about how Moshe (a proven polymath and giant) combined a doctorate

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Holotopia:Power Structure insight

...> as gigantic mechanisms, comprising people and technology. Their purpose is to take everyone's daily work as input, and turn it into socially useful ef ...the economic growth) is not the solution to our problems—the economy is our problem... "The systems, stupid!" points to a winning political ag

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Holotopia:Collective Mind insight

Our civilization is like an overgrown organism, so poorly coordinated that it presents a danger ...ays that make systems more whole. A basic point here is that this is a natural first step in systemic innovation—we first ne

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Holotopia:Convenience Paradox

...happiness" somehow be related—so that our natural pursuit, of happiness, is implemented as and hence put into the service of "human development"? ...of happiness" grew predominantly as pursuit of convenience—that is, of what seems easy, attractive, and happiness-supporting.

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Holotopia:Collective Mind

...chnology has enabled us to create, by connecting us together in a new way. Is it still using 'fire' (the way of functioning that the printing press as te Our civilization is like an overgrown organism, so poorly coordinated that it presents a danger

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Holotopia:Power Structure

The wastefulness of the financial system is, of course, notorious (see the Ferguson–McCandless–Fuller thread</e The bus with candle headlights is an understatement.

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Holotopia:Socialized Reality

We have come to the core of our response to Peccei—what is to be done, to begin "a great cultural revival" here and now. ...em>—of the 'vehicle' whose purpose is to take us to wholeness—is 'cracked'.

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Holotopia:Narrow Frame

...ver been created for that role. The fact that it finds itself in that role is a result of a series of historical accidents. Considering what is "scientifically proven" (and only that), as "true" and hence worth knowing.

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Largest Contribution to Knowledge

Follow the analogy with OO: Our challenge is to (almost) coerce the authors to write well-structured informatio

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From One to Infinity—The Future of Happiness

The point is that we have here a federation challenge, and opportunity, par

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Holotopia:Ten conversations

If it is to be governable, cybernetics taught us, a system must have a certain requi This is where the academic self-reflective dialog in front of the mirr

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Holotopia:Narrow frame

But its main disadvantage in the role of 'headlights' is that it constitutes a 'hammer'; it coerces the creative elite to look for t <blockquote>This is not an argument against science.</blockquote>

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Holotopia:Socialized reality

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>"Reality" is a myth</h2></div> The theme is central; we shall take it as concisely as we are able, without sacrificing

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Holotopia:Collective mind

We look at the socio-technical system by which information is produced and handled in our society, which the new information technology h ...be told in the second book of the Holotopia series, whose tentative title is "Systemic Innovation", and subtitle "Cybernetics of Democracy".</blockquote

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Holotopia:Power structure

...hem as gigantic machines, comprising people and technology. Their function is to take everyone's daily work as input, and turn it into socially useful ef ...nd work remained an ignored realm of creative opportunities. How much is that costing us?

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Holotopia:Convenience paradox

...possibility the value we use to make choices leads us in a direction that is opposite from wholeness. [[wholeness|Wholeness]] is so precarious: One may have everything else in abundance—and a single nut

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Prototype

<div class="col-md-7">A prototype is a model implemented in reality. 

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A historical introduction to the foundations of culture

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>Movement is relative</h2></div> ...ntemporary power structures, and their own positions in it, there is more to this story than meets the eye. </div>

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Reality as a myth

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>"Reality" is a myth</h2></div> ...th serves as the foundation stone on which the edifice of our culture is being erected.

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Introduction to the socialized reality insight

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>Attention is a resource</h2></div> ...when the teachers were still in custody of young people's character, here is what [[William James]] had to tell them about this matter:

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New

"If I have seen further," Sir Isaac Newton famously declared, "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The point of departure of our init ...a new institution (the [[transdiscipline|transdiscipline]]) that is capable of developing this new new approach to knowledge as an academic and

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Clippings

...ssues nearby, which now demand our attention. The holoscope is conceived as a way to look at the world that helps us see any chos ...advantage of the invaluable (especially in this time when our urgent need is creative change) resources that have been entrusted to it?

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Norbert Wiener

In the present holotopia prototype Norbert Wiener is an iconic representative of cybernetics, and of the systems sciences in gen ..., however, needed from this large body of research (but failed to receive) is coded in the story used to define the Prisonner's dilemma (see it

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Holotopia:Ten themes

...the collective mind insight (where we see that our communication is profoundly dysfunctional—even though the new media were created A springboard story here is about Jørgen Randers and his observation, after 40 years of frontier exper

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The Reader

...this group, providing an analysis of the workings of the institutions: he is, he has said, interested in the struggle to make procedures work better - r

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The Incredible History of Doug Engelbart

<blockquote>What is the remaining "96.4%"? What Engelbart's game-changing ideas do we still ign ...e recording of this event] bears the title "Inventing the Computer Mouse". Is that the achievement by which Doug Engelbart should be remembered?

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Holotopia summary

That "our civilization is on a collision course with nature" was at that point a scientifically estab <blockquote>"Human development is the most important goal."</blockquote>

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Holotopia:Knowledge federation

What we are calling knowledge federation is presently a placeholder—for an academically coherent answer to the quest,

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Holotopia:Prototype

A prototype is a model that is already embedded in practice, so that it not only embodies and exhibits sol

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Prototypes

<div class="col-md-7">A prototype is a model implemented in reality. 

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David Price

<div class="col-md-6"><h3>Debategraph is changing our collective mind</h3> <h3>David is also a leader of Global Sensemaking</h3>

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Vibeke Jensen

...t stifle our creativity; and vitality.“[W]hat is dead takes hold of what is alive”, Lefebre concluded in his 1974 work “Production of Space” and ...the production of space, whereby living labour can produce something that is no longer a thing, nor simply a set of tools, nor simply a commodity.”

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Ten themes

...the collective mind insight (where we see that our communication is profoundly dysfunctional—even though the new media were created A springboard story here is about Jørgen Randers and his observation, after 40 years of frontier exper

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Design

...ay of evolving, where neither of the options work. Our technology is developed by design—and progressed at an accelerated rate; our c

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Implicit information

...he core activity on the other side of the mirror, by which agency is restored to information—opens up a myriad possibilities for combining art

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N-main

...ry scene. One necessary condition of successfully continuing our existence is the creation of an atmosphere of hope that the huge problems now confrontin ...“There is only one quality more important than ‘know-how’…… This is ‘know-what’ by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purpos

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N-keywords

...information the polyscopic methodology enables is called scope design, where scopes are what ...nce, into a keyword—I am not saying what culture "really is"; but creating a way of looking at the infinitely complex real thi

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N-ideograms

...his is something no culture has really faced before. The typical situation is information scarcity. […] Lack of information can be very dangerous. [… ...any way for you", Postman continued. The question must be asked whether it is at all still useful to produce even more—before a different<

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N-prototypes

...In an academic paradigm where information is a system within a system, and where we use A prototype is

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N-action

...pending on whether the dissolution of the present paradigm is conceived as a construction or a new one—or not. <h3>The holotopia initiative is a practical implementation of this proposal.</h3>

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N-STUFF

...he elephant is the task we have as generation; to show him to our children is the duty we have as parents.</h3> Holotopia is (the name we've given to) the emerging social and cultural paradigm<

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OLD-images

...ll quanta of matter, or the social mechanisms by which the idea of reality is constructed, or the neurological mechanisms that govern awareness – but t ...ewton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mat

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OLD-stories

...] <center>Even if we don't mention him explicitly, this elephant is the main hero of our stories.</center> ...argest challenge to communication! A shared [[paradigm|paradigm]] is what enables us to communicate. How can we make sense of new thing

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OLD-applications

...e of the links on this page will remain dysfunctional until a new solution is found. Imagine an academic culture where research is not steered by the "publish or perish" ecology but by the [https:/

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OLD-conversations

...airly complete overview of an emerging approach to knowledge. What remains is to test it by applying it to a real-life theme. ...ary issues? We can focus on any theme you choose. And yet our conversation is bound to be different from any you've had.

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OLD-main

"If I have seen further," Sir Isaac Newton famously declared, "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The point of departure of our init ...a new institution (the [[transdiscipline|transdiscipline]]) that is capable of developing this new new approach to knowledge as an academic and

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THIRD-STORIES

...x be... then... It is meaningless to argue whether x "really is" as defined. ...ead of merely adapting to it. Truth by convention is the corner stone of "evolutionary guidance" (you may need to refle

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Dialog1

The aim of this first holotopia dialog is to get us started. To make yourself ready, visit [https://www.bohmdialogue.

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