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- ...The moment we've accepted that the purpose of information and of knowledge is "objectivity" – "the scientific method" naturally became the winner. We n455 bytes (62 words) - 14:00, 25 February 2020
- With the values we have, the only thing we are capable to create is the [[power structures|<em>power structure</em>]]!345 bytes (52 words) - 14:04, 25 February 2020
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- ...ry scene. One necessary condition of successfully continuing our existence is the creation of an atmosphere of hope that the huge problems now confrontin <p>Which is a <em>new kind</em> of institution. And I make this proposal concrete and a8 KB (1,372 words) - 09:09, 15 January 2024
- ...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 information22 KB (3,981 words) - 12:18, 6 January 2024
- ...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 act3 KB (431 words) - 14:20, 28 June 2018
- ...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 capabili12 KB (1,995 words) - 21:20, 7 December 2018
- ...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''...</p>1 KB (237 words) - 10:40, 20 March 2021
- <p>The threat of personal meaninglessness is ordinarily held at bay because routinised activities, in combination with b3 KB (530 words) - 16:36, 12 June 2018
- <p>What we are talking about here is really the pivotal point of our evolutionary entanglement – leading to a <p>The rest is T.B.A.</p>2 KB (258 words) - 17:03, 12 June 2018
- ...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 cap7 KB (951 words) - 16:21, 28 June 2018
- <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 capability3 KB (553 words) - 11:59, 28 June 2018
- <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"><p>The quote in the heading is by Sir Isaac Newton from 1675. Imagine if we would lose this all-important4 KB (606 words) - 12:00, 28 June 2018
- ...x</em> be... then... It is meaningless to argue whether <em>x</em> "really is" as defined. </p> <p>Independent, that is, from the <em><b>beliefs</b></em> of our traditions; and from the social "r115 KB (20,319 words) - 13:32, 12 January 2024
- ...imagine a change in our socially sanctioned capability to comprehend that is comparable to the one that the Enlightenment brought?</p> ...ta of matter, or the social mechanisms by which our shared idea of reality is constructed, or the neurological mechanisms that govern our awareness – b194 KB (31,951 words) - 12:46, 19 December 2018
- <div class="col-md-9"><p>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 documen2 KB (297 words) - 11:21, 20 July 2018
- <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.</p></div>766 bytes (124 words) - 13:10, 29 July 2018
- ...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 i5 KB (761 words) - 13:44, 20 December 2019
- ...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 proc13 KB (1,867 words) - 13:02, 3 August 2018
- ...w <em>kind of</em> academic result—which is not telling us how the world is, but <em><b>designed</b></em> to be <em>part of</em> the world and <em>inte <p>A <em><b>prototype</b></em> is</p>29 KB (5,030 words) - 12:50, 4 January 2024
- ...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 the4 KB (614 words) - 15:32, 4 August 2018
- ...uld be like in 2050; I called my contribution "World in the year 2000". It is not possible to <em>predict</em> 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 <em><b>knowledge federation</b></em> at the Inter University C12 KB (2,168 words) - 19:38, 2 January 2024
- ...]<br><small><center>Even if we don't mention him explicitly, this elephant is the main hero of our stories.</center></small></p> ...argest challenge to communication! A shared [[paradigm|<em>paradigm</em>]] is what <em>enables us</em> to communicate. How can we make sense of new thing251 KB (41,880 words) - 21:22, 22 December 2018
- ...t ideas of our best minds now compose a <em>different</em> 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 a3 KB (448 words) - 14:53, 19 August 2018
- ...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 i11 KB (1,739 words) - 12:41, 11 August 2018
- ...or threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.”1 KB (214 words) - 14:17, 10 August 2018
- ...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 purpos5 KB (891 words) - 16:10, 25 November 2023
- <p>"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|<em>transdiscipline</em>]]) that is capable of developing this new new approach to knowledge as an academic and161 KB (26,789 words) - 10:14, 13 December 2018
- <p>Which is the mother of all our problems; which the Modernity ideogram points to.</p> ...em; the action with which the change of our evolutionary course must begin is self-organization; by which we <em>become</em> new systems—capable of tur12 KB (1,966 words) - 16:12, 25 November 2023
- ...project. [http://www.infinitiheritage.ba/index.php/en/ Infiniti Heritage] is the project’s institutional home.</p> ...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://ww6 KB (826 words) - 18:12, 27 April 2020
- *** This is only a placeholder *** <div class="col-md-7"><h3>This conversation is not about innovation</h3>8 KB (1,337 words) - 14:18, 26 September 2018
- ...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 do8 KB (1,339 words) - 10:52, 8 October 2018
- ...e <em><b>polyscopic methodology</b></em> is about: The approach it enables is called <em><b>scope design</b></em>; where <em><b>scopes</b></em> are what ...technical language, this simplified view of an object or theme as a whole is called its <em><b>aspect</b></em>.</p>192 KB (33,919 words) - 14:02, 1 December 2023
- <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:8 KB (1,442 words) - 13:42, 15 May 2020
- <div class="col-md-7"><p>Our task here is to create a map of [[systemic innovation|<em>systemic innovation</em>]] / [ ...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 back78 KB (12,628 words) - 12:09, 27 October 2018
- ...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 it374 KB (63,565 words) - 11:33, 6 December 2018
- ... 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 p2 KB (329 words) - 10:34, 21 November 2019
- ...p with a way of looking at the world, a way of comprehending issues, which is far too narrow for comprehending <em>even</em> the very limited fragments o Here we explain why the king is completely naked.2 KB (350 words) - 14:21, 1 February 2020
- ''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 th749 bytes (116 words) - 14:53, 28 November 2019
- The ''information holon'' is the information format or "piece of information" (analogous to the book and546 bytes (71 words) - 15:55, 28 November 2019
- <p>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.80 KB (13,210 words) - 12:37, 30 September 2021
- ...in a similar light as we might see the mindset of the Middle Ages. Change is seen as imperative. </p> ...insight is reached by <em>looking</em> differently. Each structural defect is resolved by embracing [[wholeness|<em>wholeness</em>]] as value. </p>104 KB (17,118 words) - 10:36, 26 January 2021
- A function of a socio-technical system is to take everyone’s work as input, and turn it into socially useful effect1 KB (221 words) - 11:13, 30 November 2020
- Our civilization is like an organism that has rapidly grown in size, and got out of sync with i1 KB (162 words) - 16:32, 31 January 2020
- <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?</p>1 KB (189 words) - 16:50, 22 December 2018
- ...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 <p>The key practical question that remains is how to go about doing that.</p>6 KB (978 words) - 16:13, 25 November 2023
- ...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 <em>academic</em> "language game". An illustration is a lively little book titled "Wittgenstein's Poker". The book zooms in on sp2 KB (315 words) - 16:10, 22 December 2018
- <div class="col-md-7"><p><em>Academia</em> is the institutionalized academic tradition.</p></div> ...<em>academia</em>'s development], where the motivation for this definition is made clear.528 bytes (72 words) - 11:37, 21 February 2020
- Michelangelo in the Vatican. Resolution to socialized reality is the creation of knowledge as a systemic component. That naturally leads to471 bytes (67 words) - 14:11, 25 February 2020
- The Club of Rome is an international think tank created in 1968 to self-organize and become exa189 bytes (30 words) - 08:04, 13 November 2019
- ...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."1 KB (220 words) - 10:41, 29 April 2020
- A <em>myth</em> is a popular belief that cannot be rationally verified, which serves certain p176 bytes (27 words) - 11:57, 16 November 2019
- <div class="col-md-3"><h2>The medium is the message</h2></div> <blockquote>The <em>dialog</em> is the relationship with information, and with each other, on which the <em>ho16 KB (2,695 words) - 16:26, 17 November 2020