Holotopia: The box

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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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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...