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Culture, values, pursuit of happiness, religion
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The Enlightenment liberated us to pursue happiness here and now.
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<p>Arne Næss was credited for "deep ecology". Also Peccei claimed that "great cultural revival" is the necessity; and that "human development" is the key. Imagine if we could use information to redirect our pursuit of happiness—<em>toward</em> improvement of "human quality"!</p>
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<p> What 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. How wonderful to see that those two are really two sides of a single coin!</p>
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<p>Religion was in traditional cultures a way to overcome the paradox. What can replace it?</p>
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<p>We have proposed a new approach to knowledge, or technically a [[Holotopia: Paradigm|<em>paradigm</em>]]. We'll refer to it here by its pseudonym [[Holotopia: Holoscope|<em>holoscope</em>]], which points to its distinguishing characteristic—that it allows us to combine disparate pieces of information together, and show a theme or an issue from all sides; see it as a whole.
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Science gave us new ways to look at the world, and our vision expanded beyond bounds. The telescope and the microscope enabled us to see the things that were too distant or too small to be seen by the naked eye. At the same time, science had the tendency to keep us focused on things that were either too distant or too small to be relevant – compared to all those big and important things that now demand our attention. The <em>holoscope</em>  is conceived as way to look at the world that helps us see each thing or theme as a whole – from all sides; and in correct proportions.
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The little person wants to pursue happiness; he's wise enough to stop and think about the direction.  
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<small>Things and issues tend to have sides that are obvious, and sides that are subtle. The purpose of the <em>holoscope</em> is to illuminate what has remained hidden, and show us the whole in correct shape and proportions. When applied to an issue, the <em>holoscope</em> suggests a way in which it may need to be handled.</small>
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<p> A complete model (or technically a [[Holotopia: Prototype|<em>prototype</em>]]) of the [[Holotopia: Holoscope|<em>holoscope</em>]] having been described on our website Holoscope.org, and explained in a variety of ways on Holoscope.info, we here describe a proof of concept application, which is in development. We present the <em>holotopia</em> as an answer to the question "What difference could this new approach to knowledge make?"
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<p>We built all the technology to make life easier. Yet the heaviest thing we ever lift up and carry around is something we can <em>never</em> get rid of. Could a lion's share of effort and effortlessness be somehow hidden from us there—experiencing life (out there) as difficult, while the difficulty is really IN US? The story is both true in a physical sense, and intended to serve as a parable.
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<p>After a couple of years in a monasteryin Bangkok, XY decided "this just cannot be it"! So he decided to go and do as the Buddha did.</p>
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<p>25 centuries ago there was a laboratory in the forests of India.</p>
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<p>The pursuit of happiness in "The Garden of LIberation" forest monastery is exactly a reverse image of what we have here. Could "Evidence-based| pursuit of happiness" really be so different from our own naive one?</p>
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Culture as cultivation of wholeness – information based. Informed pubsuit of happiness. Rebuilding culture as environment, which cultivates humans.
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<small>By depicting our society as a bus, and the way we handle knowledge as a pair of candle headlights, the <em>holoscope</em> renders the nature of our condition in a nutshell—and suggests a natural way to respond to it.</small>
 
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<p>The above metaphorical image both defines the [[holoscope|<em>holoscope</em>]] a bit more precisely, and already suggests an answers the question we've just asked, about the difference it may make. The essence of the [[holoscope|<em>holoscope</em>]] proposal is that it changes radically our <em>relationship</em> with knowledge and information—and our relationship with the world, <em>through</em> knowledge and information. Yes, we too enjoy a candlelight dinner. But what we do with information, and with knowledge, <em>must</em> be tailored to the purpose of seeing what needs to be seen. We cannot continue handling our affairs  'in the light of the candle'. We must <em>create</em>, rather than inherit, the way we see the world.</p>
 
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<p><em>Only then</em> shall we be able to see how to use the power that the technology has given us meaningfully and safely.</p>
 
 
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<p>Just as the journalists do, we too tell real-life people and situation stories to bring abstract ideas down to earth and make them clear. We also use stories to convey core ideas of leading thinkers, to make it possible to 'step into their shoes', 'see through their eyeglasses'. This technique helps us "stand on the shoulders of giants", as Newton did in his day, and "see further". The following taste bits will serve to introduce <em>holotopia</em> itself. (* Pls. bear with me; we may scratch them later, or achieve the same effect in some other way; but for now this is my best shot at making the main point clear. *)</p>
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<p>[[Holotopia: Noah|Noah]], Dino's 10-yr old son, here appears in the role of a stakeholder. Dino's generation will soon be on the way out; Noah's generation is on the way in. What kind of world, what options, are we leaving them?</p>
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<p>Noah's question is his answer to Dino's attempts to help him <em>not</em> give up on understanding the world. Notice that Noah is asking exactly the question that is the point of departure of the <em>holoscope</em> and the <em>holotopia</em>, whether we should redefine our relationship with knowledge, and with the world by using the available knowledge—or just continue living as we are used to.  In the light of the above metaphorical image, Noah is asking "Why do we need to create the lightbulb? Isn't the good old candle serving us just fine?</p>
 
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<p><b>Dino</b>: "While our distant ancestors were living on trees, "just living" was the only option, and it was of course also possible. They only needed to reach out their hand and pick up a banana. But that is no longer possible in the complex world we've created."</p>  
 
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<p>[[Holotopia: Aurelio Peccei|Aurelio Peccei]]—the founding president and the motor power behind The Club of Rome—also appears here in an iconic role. The Club of Rome was an effort to <em>federate</em> insights about our civilization's condition, and its future prospects. What do we <em>really</em> need to know about our situation? What do we <em>really</em> need to do?</p>  
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<p>Based on a decade of research of this international think tank, Peccei left us the following diagnosis:</p>  
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The <em>narrow frame</em> led quite directly to the <em>convenience paradox</em> — by emphasizing direct causality, and eliminating culture. Egocentricity become our value when we learned to consider it as "scientific"; and "natural". </p>  
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<small>We let this be a road sign on a civilizational crossroads. While most of us are "just living",  a growing number sees that this leads to a dead end—and is beginning to panic. </small>
 
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<p>We offer it here to Noah. We are living in a precarious moment where "just living" is no longer possible. And where knowledge, where our capability to understand the world and orient ourselves in it, will have a completely different function than it had before—and <em>still</em> does! </p>
 
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<p>Peccei as an icon stands for the forgotten history of the environmental movement. The fact that we cannot just engineer "solutions" to our "problems"—such as the climate change. We must "change course". Read our [[Holotopia: Aurelio Peccei|Aurelio Peccei]] story to see what this really meant—that it's "a great cultural revival" we need to aim for! But <em>how</em>? </p>
 
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<p>[[Holotopia:Margaret Mead|Margaret Mead]] appears here in the role of an icon of the Holotopia project itself. Her familiar dictum points to the <em>holotopia</em>'s very core mission:
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Aaron Antonovky studied the 1/3 of the women who survived the Holocaust but <em>didn't</em> develop the syndrome. What made them different? Sense of coherence.
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<p>Art, architecture... always served as a medium for encoding evolutionarily important messages. When we liberate information, and see that <em>implicit information</em> is the key to cultural evolution, we become ready to design it. We <em>don't</em> leave it to the advertising.</p>
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The 'small print'—her explanation (based on research in cultural anthropology, where she was a leader) what exactly distinguishes "a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens" that is <em>capable</em> of making a difference—is even <em>more</em> relevant, because it points to the strategic and tactical decisions that define the Holotopia project. Contemplate the [[Holotopia:Margaret Mead|Margaret Mead]] story to see how.</p>
 
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The <em>holotopia</em> vision achieves that, and significantly more—it provides for an engagement where we are not "solving problems", but <em>building</em> a human condition that is radically better than what we have today.</p>
 
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<p>Suppose that <em>you</em> had in your hand a flashlight, which you could use to illuminate any theme or issue. What would you point it at?</p>
 
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<p>We here use the <em>holoscope</em> to 'illuminate the way'. Our aim is <em>not</em> to predict the future, but to show a <em>possible</em> future. And to begin to follow a course by which this future can be reached.</p>
 
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<p>The <em>holotopia</em> is <em>more</em> desirable future than the common utopias. Yet it is fully realizable. We already own all the knowledge needed for its fulfillment.</p>
 
 
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<p>The <em>holotopia</em> vision is made concrete in terms of specific [[Holotopia:Five insights|<em>five insights</em>]]. The idea is to show that when a core theme of interest is illuminated by the light of available knowledge—we see it in a completely new light; and in a similar way as we might see the way this theme was handled in the Middle Ages. By doing this, we give a positive answer to the question posited in the Holoscope.org's opening paragraphs:
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Two things are hidden: The foundations (they are under the earth); and <em>ourselves</em>. Without the help of a mirror, we believe that what we see is "the reality". Becoming aware of ourselves—of our cognitive biases, and our culture's biases, is what makes all the difference.
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Think about the world at the twilight of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance: devastating religious wars, terrifying epidemics… Think of the scholastics pondering about the angels dancing on a needlepoint; and Galilei in house arrest, whispering “and yet it moves” into his beard. Observe that the problems of the epoch were not resolved by focusing on those problems, but by a slow and steady development of an entirely new approach to knowledge. Several centuries of comprehensive evolution followed. Could a similar advent be in store for us today?
 
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<p>You will have no difficulty noticing how these <em>five insights</em> weave together an affirmative answer to the question we posed above: The upper three show how an equivalent of the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution and the Communication Revolution may still happen to us; the bottom two show that an Enlightenment-like change is ready to happen <em>for fundamental reasons</em>—and by bringing about a new way to think and to comprehend the world, make those three other changes possible.</p>
 
 
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<p>While each of the <em>five insights</em> is spectacular in its own right, even more illuminating are their relationships. By exploring them, in the light of further suitable points of reference, we understand that we cannot meaningfully respond to any of them, without responding to them all. </p>  
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Revision as of 14:13, 14 March 2020

Holotopia: The box

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Convenience Paradox

Themes

Culture, values, pursuit of happiness, religion

Scope

The Enlightenment liberated us to pursue happiness here and now.

Arne Næss was credited for "deep ecology". Also Peccei claimed that "great cultural revival" is the necessity; and that "human development" is the key. Imagine if we could use information to redirect our pursuit of happiness—toward improvement of "human quality"!

What 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. How wonderful to see that those two are really two sides of a single coin!

Religion was in traditional cultures a way to overcome the paradox. What can replace it?

Insight

Convenience Paradox.jpg

The little person wants to pursue happiness; he's wise enough to stop and think about the direction.

Stories

Effort and Effortlessness

We built all the technology to make life easier. Yet the heaviest thing we ever lift up and carry around is something we can never get rid of. Could a lion's share of effort and effortlessness be somehow hidden from us there—experiencing life (out there) as difficult, while the difficulty is really IN US? The story is both true in a physical sense, and intended to serve as a parable.

Buddhadasa story

After a couple of years in a monasteryin Bangkok, XY decided "this just cannot be it"! So he decided to go and do as the Buddha did.

25 centuries ago there was a laboratory in the forests of India.

The pursuit of happiness in "The Garden of LIberation" forest monastery is exactly a reverse image of what we have here. Could "Evidence-based| pursuit of happiness" really be so different from our own naive one?

Resolution

Culture as cultivation of wholeness – information based. Informed pubsuit of happiness. Rebuilding culture as environment, which cultivates humans.

Keywords

  • Religion

Prototypes

  • Liberation book
  • Movement and Qi course

Black arrow: NF —> CP

The narrow frame led quite directly to the convenience paradox — by emphasizing direct causality, and eliminating culture. Egocentricity become our value when we learned to consider it as "scientific"; and "natural".

Orange arrow: SR <=> CP

Aaron Antonovsky and Salutogenesis (extra story)

Aaron Antonovky studied the 1/3 of the women who survived the Holocaust but didn't develop the syndrome. What made them different? Sense of coherence.

Michelangelo in the Vatican

Art, architecture... always served as a medium for encoding evolutionarily important messages. When we liberate information, and see that implicit information is the key to cultural evolution, we become ready to design it. We don't leave it to the advertising.

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Socialized Reality

Themes

Foundation for social creation of truth and meaning; epistemology

Scope

Two things are hidden: The foundations (they are under the earth); and ourselves. Without the help of a mirror, we believe that what we see is "the reality". Becoming aware of ourselves—of our cognitive biases, and our culture's biases, is what makes all the difference.

Insight

Magical Mirror.jpg

From the traditional culture we've adopted a myth—far more disruptive than the myth of creation—that the purpose of information, and of knowledge, is to tell us "how the reality really is".

Knowledge is NOT reality. It's our own construction. And most importantly—our culture's construction.

The holotopia is on "the reality" other side of the mirror.

The role of the academia is to guide the society to the other side.


Stories

Bourdieu in Algeria

Bourdieu did not travel to Algeria as a sociologist; in Algeria he became a sociologist—by acquiring a core insight, which marked his subsequent career. The insight is how (what we call) socialization organizes the practical life in a society.

More concretely, in Algeria Bourdieu had a chance to witness how the interrogation, the prison and the torture chamber (as instruments of power that were passed on all the way from Galilei's time), which were ubiquitous

The origins of science, and of the academia

This iconic image of the Enlightenment... And his eppur si muove... Let us zoom in on this pivotal moment of our civilization's history. See what it really meant. And what resulted.

Notice first of all that the real issue was not whether the Earth was moving or not. That was just a technicality. Galilei was held in house arrest because of the dangerous meme he was carrying—that when the reason contradicted the Scripture, it might still be legitimate to give the reason the benefit of our doubt


Resolution

Truth by convention takes us through the mirror. The design epistemology empowers us to build.

Keywords

  • Culture
  • Information; implicit information
  • Homo ludens
  • Epistemology
  • Gestalt
  • Dialog


Prototypes

  • What's Going on?
  • Design Epistemology

Black arrow: CM —>SR

Without federated information—we had no other choice but to evolve as homo ludens.

The Nietzsche–Ehrlich–Giddens thread.

Orange arrow: PS —> SR

The power structure and the socialized reality are two sides of a single coin. To liberate ourselves from the power structure, we must liberate ourselves from the doxa...


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