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Whole and General Systems: A new conceptual framework and paradigm: Tools, Links and Comments

Venus and David,

- FUSION put together -

design with nature...

The Roman Aphrodite is the also the Neolithic mother goddess who rises from the sea and epitomizes collective values:
a force which is balanced by David who represents ego and self, the dauntless individual vs. giants - FISSION - take apart - Two very different people from different times. At the same time the analogous as biological humans.
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from the machine model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces.

Up until the present we thought we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before we "solved" all the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of energy and location it's a question of profound meaning.

The concept of Complementarily is to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles.

The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.

The separation by Descartes of dualism of mind and matter, body and spirit, church and state, is replaced by a Cartesian shift.

Matter moves from here to there without going through the intermediate space, objects act on each other at a distance without any physical connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could not.
Correction:
On the web-page http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbrain documents it says that neutrinos do not have mass or energy. While it is debatable whether neutrinos have mass or not, they certainly have energy. Just as light does not have mass, but has energy.

The full relativistic formula for the energy of a particle is E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where E is the energy, p is the momentum and c is the speed of light. So a particle that is massless (such as a photon or a neutrino) has an energy of E=pc.

You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:

http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html

-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no mass -

Sendpflaump@cfl.rr.comk to: pflaump@cfl.rr.commDr. Peter Pflaum

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The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL contributions:

NEWS PAGES

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OFFICE 97 June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day. DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET? Intranets are the integration of Internet paradigms and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and server infrastructure to create dramatically more effective business management systems. Microsoft's approach to intranet systems is based on: melding public and private networks into one, integrating Web page and link paradigms for all products, simplifying applications deployment and administration, and integrating all of the above into existing investments

We are looking for additions and comments for "

The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Bill Gates and the Internet documents journal sent Friday June 15th" (In Hypertext).

The http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL is distributed on Fridays to about 30,000 readers, in thirty countries, see below. To request copies send message "Request SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL" to pflaump@cfl.rr.com. Npflaump@cfl.rr.comwww.pflaump@cfl.rr.com> documents JOURNAL, is waiting for input.

The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft copy which is on: BELOW is the draft text ( after the index ) look at dates for the hypertext version and syj615.txt for plain text, and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version. When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view, source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.

For example:

SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST) From: Kim FLINTOFF To: pflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com1">Peter ( I hope that's right)

I just have a couple of queries -

a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL - is this really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!

Peter:

There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't. I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.

b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed - the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues on how to make it more readable for myself??

Peter:

The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor. Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ Pages where there are examples of many types of pages.

Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY- people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!

Peter: I think you have just proven my point.

The low level of access is because they have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the IB program and is going to MIT.

They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.

The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -

Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!

Cheerio for now

Kim Flintoff st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au

For those that get

The http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL e-mail: When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word processor without any http codes.

The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet and other life forms, education, management, economics, and policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e. Learning and DOING:

The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.

 
 The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right




and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?









AR,   Argentina         AT,   Austria           AU,   Australia         BG,   Bugiria




BR,   Brazil            CA,   Canada            CH,   Switzerland               CL,   




CR,   Croasia           DE,   Germany   ES,   Spain                     FI,   Finland




FR,   France            HK,   Hong Kong ID,                             IE,   Ireland




IT,   Italy             JP,   Japan             KR,                             MX,   




MY,   Malaysia  NL,   Netherlands       NZ,   New Zealand               PH,   




PL,   Poland            PT,                     SE,   Sweden                    SG,   




TR,  Turkey             UK,   Great Britain     ZA,   Russia                    RO Romania

On Monday, June 10th,

The New York Times on the Web launched an interactive multimedia photo documents journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's struggle for peace.

"Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace,"

features an electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned photo documents journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war and peace in the former Yugoslavia. anyone with Internet access can view and participate in the project without charge or registration at http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.

Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum contributions will be posted regularly on the site.

The site itself will remain accessible until August.

We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It can be reached either from

The New York Times on the Web's home page (http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.

Index of /

Parent Directory TURNPIKE

GO HERE FIRST

NEWS and comments - interactions

FIRST page in the orginal long form

Directory of the site

100's of DOCUMENTS

GUIDE to the site made by Altavista

Guide for NEWBIES and the internet

NEWBIE in plain.txt

START of the network

The first class group "Administrators" to report

You can see what a synergy class is like.

OPEN-ME is the second page

Register as beta tester

The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles: NEW , http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbrain documents pathos/ PATHOS LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,

VISIONS of blue sky futures

MAIN http files includes LOGOS and

current case discussion and activities

meaning and policy

current discussions and documents

feelings and sufi

intro to groups

education; small schools and ethics

TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files

setup for group STYLES

SYNERGY A new style of writing - New Visions

See /newbie.htm THE NEWBIE PAGE for information on the internet

also internet news

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As you can see we have added references and I am looking for more comments and additions.

The Power of the internet is linkage. CONNECTIONS, RJC Designs says "Technology will allow them to interact, create, and communicate in a global medium to an extent never before realized. " On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada the hyper text links -

The http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?

RE:

The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be rich.

NOTE:

The experiment: Please download this into your word processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.

The Origins and Growth of Action Learning ( 1982)

THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:

BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I do.

PHYSICS:

The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us with this ?

Social Science: Charles Handy:

The Age of Unreason involves management, learning organizations, education, economics and policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.

Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In

The Age Of

The Smart Machine, 1988

documentsDY:

The idea of the virtual office/school.

You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the Internet.

The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision location is near the mall, bank, library, post office and other net services. As you enter the building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.

The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !

From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas - and return to me.

As there is a seamless interface between your office and the virtual off, there is between the school and reality.

There is the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of facts for you.

Do keep up the intriguing work !

An Vranckx Belgium

Dear Peter Pflaum, I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL?) (pep) YES That's fine ....

I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.

The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.

(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?

The idea is this - CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what we do is what we are.

What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).

Date: 13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500 From: "Eric Harvey"

I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author, currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a link with the credits.

Neal Weiner THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner

Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.

The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there. Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.

The question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past. Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using the one we have.

Natura non facit saltum;

Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?

The idea of natural stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct, hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable, predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies, freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our collective hands in the storm.

The slow, continuous, evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.

Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of the Species" or the "/decent of man"

The physical fossil record does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady "progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative activity.

Physics:

The Uncertainty principle:

Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of energy and location.

The concept of Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective, with different time frames and view points at one and the same time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could not.

Social Science:

The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard Business School Press 1990)

The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, ( add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before, leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.

Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played in a new game by different people.

The ecological niches are how all creatures great and small earn a living.

The way "/dork" is organized in communities make the biggest difference in our lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central power source, to more diversified production using electrical energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications, transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business, political and spiritual.

The introduction of running water in a small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at the common well and washing house.

How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth, "earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment, where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline, takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.

The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth quake. We are expecting the "big one";

FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's

The Rise and Fall of Nations.

Lord Keynes Who wrote of Newton

" Newton was not the first of the age of reason.  He was




   the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians




   and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on




   the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as-




   those who began to build our intellectual inheritance




   rather less than 10,000 years ago. "

The great economist shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great there is the chance to make a killing.

GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts ( much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ). This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference between today's price and a future lower price. This is how people can make money in up or down markets.

The yen is overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.

When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold ( the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less stuff.

The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with the glorious bandits called conquistadors.

Japan has horded money and the price of stuff is way out of line. If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous change.

Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat Robinson.

The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.com://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL will replace all other mailing.

Our Nation is at risk

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Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.

Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18 months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and breadth of our land.

RE:

The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:

It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land, place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.

They were here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark night.

The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character as a creature to create an image of our selves and our environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any "objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth, color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a time frame on the Internet ?

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The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.

The reason is the real paradigm shift from a machine model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of energy and location.

The concept of Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective, with different time frames and view points at one and the same time. I live on a barrier island along the East Central Atlantic coast of Florida. This barrier island extends from Cape Canaveral thirty five miles north to Ponce Inlet. ( Image of Light House ). For twenty miles North from the Kennedy Space Center there is the Canaveral National seashore, (image of dunes) the last fifteen miles is New Smyrna Beach, the south half in the county and north half in the city, which is mostly on the "mainland" In the last decade a wall of condos has been build on the Volusia county land to the south extending down to the Turtle Mound made of oyster shells by older native Americans, the marker to the National Sea Shore.

The city was founded by Greek and Minorican servants brought by British merchant adventurers in the 1760's as the biggest single planed colony in North America. It failed and the remaining people moved to St. Augustine at the time of the rebellion of the American colonies.

My wife family came here in the 1950's. ( Image of the Crawford ramp )

At that time the beach was broad and flat, the ocean shadow for a long way out. Now the tide comes to the remains of the dune lines. Houses on Buthune beach are threaten by storms. In the last few years there has been a federal court case under the endangered species act because of the nesting sea turtles. Local people want to continue to drive on the beach. We wrote recently to Endangered/Threatened Species Permit Coordinator U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

As long-time residents of the north beach, New Smyrna Beach, we are very familiar with local beach ecology. In the last few years, this beach area has significantly diminished while auto traffic has greatly increased. It is only a question of time before cars will be forced off the beach. We may as well do it now.

For more than two decades it has been obvious that people, cars, and turtles cannot safely share the same space. In the last few years, high tides frequently come well past the hard sand. During the turtle nesting season, the area set aside for parking is in soft sand where cars make deep ruts, often get stuck, and leave no area where children can safely play. (See rest of letter bellow )

We tend to see the earth as stable.

These barrier islands are reefs produced not long ago, in the last period of global warming, when the ocean was 20 to 40 feet deeper.

The planet is warming again, the hot-house effects, the growing and exploding sun ( now 1/3 stronger than when life began 3.5 billion years ago ), and who knows what ? We do not live or can ever live is stable times.

The Internet as a new life form has direction and meaning.

The meaning comes from synergy, field vectors, in a very complex system.

The Internet, maybe the most complex life form so far in earth's evolution. We can't know what the meaning is, but can only draft a successive approximation. I trust others will join on the path.

The most important idea and theory of our time is the Werner Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. It is a lot more than the problem of energy and location.

The concept of Complementarily is to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles.

The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.

The separation by Descartes of dualism of mind and matter is replaced by a Cartesian shift. Matter moves from here to there without going through the intermediate space, objects act on each other at a distance without any physical connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh.

This is the stuff of which dreams are made, the forms of things unknown, from the poets pen turn airy nothing into hallucinations that have a name, that name is the material world, that name is spirit. Some raise in the world of hard physical objects have a problem seeing these kinds of statements as having any "meaning"

The meaning is we effect and "create" our worlds, as the uncertainty principle says.

The world is the airy stuff which we give place and name and solid reason. It starts with vision, the world is "not" what we see and think it is.

The nature of life, Kepler's Facultas formatrix, Galvani's Life force, Goethe's Gestaltung, Bergson's elan vital, Leibniz's monades, describe an innate drive with reasons.

The reasons maybe unknowable with any material mechanism. We may not like or understand the explanation. "Reculer pour mieux sauter" means to step back to take a new leap forward.

The same general paradigm how appears in biology and in physics at the center of the atom or the cell.

From Adam to atom there are more than concrete material forces at play. We are creatures of the big brain that happened without reason ?

Humans developed mind far greater than we still know how to use. This never happens in nature, why should it ? By mistake ? Creatures evolve as required, on demand, as needed, not in advance of any use. Or is there something else going on that requires intent, direction and design ?

The Ghost in the Machine, ( Deus ex Machina ) Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Arthur Koestler's statement of uncertainty is that no information system can include a fully operational model of itself. Complex systems exist in a hall of mirrors and dynamic open systems. Life uses negative entropy. Life is always on the move, with some intent in "mind"

The "mind" of the universe, the biosphere, or people is not a brain, nerves, electricity, glands, transmitters, bone, body, or any-thing only.

There is some-spirit else going on; the father, the son, and the holy ghost - took the last train to the coast, the day the music died. If I told you, the secret of life, you wouldn't believe me and why should you.

It's always troubled me to be around people who think they know what they don't and can't possibly be so sure of, they clearly find good reasons not to know.

They refuse to consider the alternatives. Evolution and creation has their true believers. We all create mental maps and impose our ideas on what we perceive. Our tools of perception require a lot of filters or there is too much noise and too little information, like on television. Awareness is always limited and incomplete. What is troublesome is the firm instance on limited vision.

The wilful refusal to see the Big picture or alternative viewpoints. Psychological strategies all involve opening doors of awareness closed by emotional barriers and attachments to defensive walls built to close out new ideas. A proper respect and feeling for ambiguity, complexity is basic to understanding and rather rare.

For every good new idea there are many that are not new or good.

The Gaia theory had a problem with the lack of understanding about purpose and direction in nature. Direction in evolution is NOT that lizards desired to fly and grew wings, but that there is a context and meaning in the unknown forces of nature. Lizards would never grow feathers, have hollow bones, and take off by chance or random mutation. We have the record of early birds that evolved from Dinosaurs but such a complex synergy must have direction, be part of a bigger matrix, involved with vectors that we can't be observed with the models and tools we have been using. Lovelock's Daisy world is a simple model of how feedback produces a direction and purpose in complex systems.

The is the soul of general systems theory.

Darwin's Origin of Species doesn't have a sound explanation of how evolution works. We still don't know the synergy and methods life forms use in the origin of species. We do know a lot about the parts but not much about wholes.

The drift of population characteristics, the survival of those best adapted to changing environments, mutations, extinctions, can explain, given enough time; variety within and among species but not the vast complexity of biological communities and their origins.

We know how populations of finches become specialist in their ecology.

These adaptations can not make silk purses out of sows ears. Genetic information has room for survival strategies within the basic rules and limits of the information given.

Genetic drift and random mutations can't explain rather sudden arrival of new structures and rules, at the creation of species.

The Australian marsupials developed independently but along common paths from simple shrews and mice, to wolves and kangaroos.

They have a lot in common with their placenta mammal relatives. How did that happen ? How did the eye evolve independently in several different types of organisms, and how do the cells of the liver know their role and not become eye tissue.

There is a lot more than tangible apparent forces at work. Rather mystic communications take place in the biosphere, the whole is a lot more than the sum of the parts.

RE: Natural Civilization -

We discussed the Internet as a life form. We need a new mythology that can enlighten and inform our understanding of who we are and the effects of our social technology.

The Internet as a life form works well as analogies, concepts, poems and theories to help us understand what is going on when things are change so fast. Our childish minds are formed in an industrial age that is dying and a new world order is rising from the Far West, that from Europe is the Far East - ( where East meets West ). This site asks the question: can an old dog learn new tricks, can we get a new prospective ? Can we get our Yin and Yang together ?

The Fifth Discipline

The steps in boot-camp, in Jesuit soldiers for Christ, in the traditional Mass, in Makarenko's Road to Life, in Brain Washing, re socialization, AA, follow this pattern:

BLUE- wind and water Welcome: this is a special place - dress, music, formal ritual lets you know you are not in Kansas anymore, (

The colors are Sufi codes from Rumi, 12th century ) Covey = proactive Pay Attention Wake UP

YELLOW - Personal Mastery -

The lessons - This is the state of the world as "/de" know it - you can try harder - Is that the best you can do ? Covey = Begin with the end in mind

The Challange .

RED - fire Repent - re-think - reflect - reform - you are not fit to gather the crumbs from under the table, meditation on your faults, intergration of passions. Covey = Put first things first ! REFORM FACE UP TO REALITY

Team work: Win/Win BROWN earth = Forgiveness which passes all understanding, not because of your virtues but just because of our love for you ? centered, grounded, focused - in Covey from personal independence to inter-dependence.

Synergize, Learning at the gut level: WHITE = spirit,

The rites of passage - Take eat - do this and remember - Grace be with you - the life force is yours for the asking; THE FORCE

Systems thinking: Black to Green (

The emerald city ) = the land of OZ See the big picture, Thanksgiving to the Lord or country or the Marines and the faith of our fathers and belief in THE WAY- the way of knowing;

Shared Vision: Black to clear = membership, the few, the brave, the good going beyond self - transpersonal

Current rethinking about the evolution of the planet earth, the biosphere, and social-biology involves new models or paradigms of punctuated equilibria,

chance and chaos. Illya Prigogine, author of Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature, NY: Bantam Books, 1984 and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 1977 wrote that chance and necessity ( Jacques Monod ) cooperate instead of opposing one another.

The application of themodynamics to the disequalium of life with it's unsteady states give us new viewpoints - altra, ultra-vistas as well as a higher viewpoint alta-vista, broader perspectives.

Life is a form of negative or anti-entropy, which itself is a type of anti-matter energy. This is the glue of the universe. Someday the great central field on/off up/down strong/weak then/now - hot (active)/cold (still) here/there ( 6th dimensions ) theory will put it all together in a way we can understand. So far we have talked about five dimensions, there are seven but some can't be talked about. We can't measure the "life-force" but it goes under the name of the spirit or soul. Because we can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. You can't prove a negative and there is no positive test for anti- entropy. But it makes more sense than any of the alternatives - and like democracy is messy and is not simple. Complex systems require knowing about the parts and the whole, or ge neral systems methods and thinking. It takes knowing who we are and what our dreams mean. If this is weird to you - so be it. Like oriental music it is an acquired taste.

The universe doesn't care what I think or your think - there are truths beyond our options or opinions. We try to put ourselves in a meaningful relationship with the universal truth, not the other way around.

Dynamic energy fields have physical counterparts in the core of the atom. From Adam to atom profound knowledge has had an intuitive understanding of fluid dynamics and energy fields.

The Tao, hermetic metaphysics, and the other sounds of the universe have "known" the nature of balance and order, chaos and noise, at the very core of time and being.

There is no determinism in human affairs but patterns and interactions that must exist within the "laws of nature."

The spirit of the Mother Goddess ( Charlene Spretnak ) lives in a dangerous and sometimes abrupt, indifferent void. Human institutions are part of nature.

They are not "un-natural" and are shaped by natural forces. Cultural and social evolution of people and technology form general ecological systems. Organizations, business, churches, schools, governments, cities, families, are all part of nature. BUT, human choice and hopes, desires, passions, beliefs, can create unstable dynamics - outside the groove - ecologically unsound and life threatening. Modern economic systems build on cheap energy, mono-culture, exploitation of the environment, and rapid population growth is short term and will not work.

The VISION: is not a pleasant one - We have broken the covenant -

RE: Beyond Reductionism - New Perspectives in the Life Sciences

A suggestion for a second Alpbach Symposium, the first was held in 1968 in the Alpine Resort of that name.

Social theory about human organizations, business, economics, governments, sociology, and government were not included. Are social institutions not a life science ? If not what then ? Are humans not a life form ? Are human social interactions not a form of evolution ?

I think the feeling then and now is that organizational, social and political theory is mostly ungrounded, only fads and opinion, not science. In the terms of semantics social science has no references, like the law, is sound and fury signifying nothing but habits of mind and social controls and who has the best argument.

The fields are not based on fact. Evolution, physics, chemistry, biology are facts.

The theories that explain them are fact based. How are any social science or political theory including economics based on facts ? Information but without understanding of the fundamentals.

If economics, the hard social science was factual, there would be less disagreement among professionals. You can line up economists from here to the moon and not reach a conclusion. When they almost all did agree, deficits would cause inflation, they were wrong. Without a firm base is life science, social science doesn't really count. See references at the bottom for basic social science as defined here.

The participants in the first conference included:

Ludwig von Bertalanffy,

The founder of General Systems an ecological model of complex interactions. His idea was that a general language of systems could be applied in most fields, sources, sinks, integrations, partners, dependency, centripetal, cooperation, altruism, synergy, adaptability, etc. This was applied by Jay Forrester to industrial dynamics at MIT. Peter Senge, at MIT Slone, called general systems the learning organization and the fifth discipline.

Je rome S. Bruner, Acts of Meaning and Beyond the information given; how the "mind" works with general systems, a learning theory.

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The failure of the cognitive revolution to unravel the mysteries of the workings of the human mind as the creator of meanings is the starting point for Jerome Bruner's Acts of Meaning. He argues that psychology should return to human concerns, especially the role of culture in shaping our thoughts and the language we use to express them.."

Viktor E. Frankl,

The meaning of life, Logos theory; In his famous book Man's Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl described how people living in the adversity of concentration camps in World War II fared better if they were able to find meaning or purpose amid their circumstances.

The life force is a magnificent illusion, a connection to dreams, and a positive attitude. Man's search for meaning ( the title of the book ) gives life force - those without higher goals will die under stress.

Abe Maslow was not there, but added transcendence to his hierarchical order of human motivations, in the further reaches of human nature.

Arthur Koestler, writer.

Jean Piaget, and other psychologist and zoologist.

Life is more than the sum of it's parts. It contains synergy as it's core. James Lovelock, the Gaia

Theory and Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould's Punctuated Equilibria evolutionary ideas; Richard Leakey, would now be included in such a seminar other members could be of a second meeting let by Bill Moyers of PBS:

See references on SYSTEMS THEORY OTHER EDUCATION

     Callahan, Raymond E. Education and the Cult of Efficiency 




     Coleman, Michael C. American Indian Children at School, 1850+1930 




     Cremin, Lawrence. 
 The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American




     Education, 1876+1957 




     Fuller, Wayne. 
 The Old Country School: 
 The Story of Rural Education in the Middle




     West 




     Grant, Gerald. 
 The World We Created at Hamilton High 




     James, Thomas. Exile Within: 
 The Schooling of Japanese Americans,1942+1945 




     Kozol, Jonathon. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 




     Mohraz, Judy Jolley. 
 The Separate Problem: Case Studies of Black Education in the




     North, 1900+1930 




     Tyack, David B. 
 The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education

1. Callahan, R. (1962) Education and the Cult of Efficiency Chicago University Press
2. Gardn er, Howard Frames of Mind:
   

   The
   

   Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York, Basic Books, 1985)

3. Goldbery, Milton and James Harvey "A Nation at Risk" Phi Delta Kappan 1983 65:14+18
4. Goodlad, John A Place Called School(New York, McGraw Hill, 1983)
5. Gordon, William J.J. SYNECTICS, (New York, Harper & Row, 1961)
6. Halberstam, David
   

   The Reckoning (New York, William Morrow, 1986)

7. Handy, Charles B.
   

   The Age of Unreason (Boston, Mass. Harvard Business School Press) 1989

8. Healey, Jane M. Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It A Touchstone Book (Simon & Schuster) 1990
9. Ouchi, W. G. (1981).
   

   Theory Z. New York: Avon Books.

10. Pirsig, R. M. (1974). Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: An inquiry into values. New York: Bantam Books.
11. Peters, T. Thriving on Chaos(New York, Harper & Row, 1987)
12. Reich, Robert B.
    

    The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991)
    

    The Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)

13. Senge, P.M.
    

    The Fifth Discipline:
    

    The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)

14. Sternberg, Robert,
    

    The Triarchic Mind: A new theory of Human Intelligence (New York, Penguin, 1988) Frames of Mind Heinemann 1983




Other possible authors etc:




James Gleick, Chaos, Making a new Science

Robert Ornstein,


The Evolution of Consciousness

Ed Regic,


The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition

Merlin Donald,


The Orgins of the Modern Mind

Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts

Jonathan Kozol, Andrew Hacker - Two Nations Toni Morrison -

James Burke

Edward T. Hall,


The Silent Language -




Lewis Thomas -


The Fragile Species,

Rene DuBos,




Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches,


The Riddle of Culture




Classic:

Argyris, Chris Personality and Organization (1958) and E. Schon,


Theory into Practice, Increasing Professional Effectiveness,(San Francisco, Jossey Bass, 1974) and Schon D. Organizational Learning: A


Theory in Action Perspective (Addison-Wesley 1978) Reasoning, Learning and Action,(San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1982)

Bennis, Warren G.


The Leaning Ivory Tower and Changing Organizations (New York, McGraw-Hill 1966) and Benne, K.D. and Chin, R.


The Planning of Change, Reading in the applied Behavioral Sciences (New York, Holt, Rienhart & Winston , 1964) and Nanis, B. Leaders (Harper & Row) 1986

Bernard, Chester I


The Functions of the Executive (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1939)

Bloom, B.S. Human Characteristics and School Learning (New York, McGraw- Hill, 1976) Taxonomy of educational objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain (New York, David Mckay Co. 1956) All our Children Learning (New York, McGraw Hill 1981)

Boulding, K.E. (1985)


The World as a Total System (Sage, Beverly Hills Calif)

Bruner, J.


The Process of Education(Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1961) and Goodnow, J.J. and Austin, G.A. A study of Thinking (New York Science Editions, 1967)

Dewey, John


The School and Society(Chicago,


The University Press 1956) and Education and Democracy(New York, MacMillian 1916) Democracy and Education (Free Press 1966)

Drucker, Peter F.


The Practice of Management (McGraw-Hill 1957)

Erikson, Erik Childhood and Society(New York, Norton, 1950)

Follett, Mary Parker Dynamic Administration, Collected Papers (New York, Harper & Row, 1941, Metcalf and Lyndall Editors)

Likert, Rensis


The Human Organization (McGraw-Hill, New York 1967)

Makarenko, A. S. (1973).


The Road to Life: An epic in Education. New York: Oriole Editions.

Maslow, Abraham A. Toward a Psychology of Being (New York, Van Nostrand, 1962)


The further Reaches of Human Nature

McGregor, Douglas M.


The Human Side of Enterprise

Olson, M


The Rise and Decline of Nations (Yale University Press 1982)

Rogers, Carl R. Freedom to Learn for the 80s(Columbus, Charles E. Merrill, 1982)

Schien, Edgar Organizational Psychology (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs N.J. 1972) and Bennis, W.G. Personal and Organizational Change through Group Methods(New York, Wiley and Sons, 1965)

Schon, D. Educating the Reflective Practitioner (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass) 1987

Simon, Herbert A. Administrative Behavior (the Free Press, New York, 1957)

Taylor, Frederick -


The Principles of Scientific Management (New York, Harper & Row, 1911) also Fayol, Henri in Gulick and Urwick "Papers on the Science of Administration" 1937







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From WAKING UP by Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. Institute of Noetic Sciences, New Science Library SHAMBHALA (1986) 475 Gate Five Road, #300 Sausalito CA 94965 CC: Box 37, El Cerrito, CA 94530

(From G. I. Gurdjjeff)

also Oscar Ichazo, Arica Training

Idries Shah - Sufis

GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself beyond this too, too hollow shell;

METANOIA = repent, think again and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;

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Collaboration: hypertext office cooperative file: HOCF

Save this file on your C drive as hocf.htm and hocf.txt. When you open the file in your browser you have a hypertext document. If you open it in notepad or WP or Word as a plain text ANSI document you see the codes. You then can comment, add material and mail it pack to pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@cfl.rr.com

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The file is on /documents as well as /NEW. You can go toftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard and upload the file. I have looked in AltaVista but there are a lot more places to look.

The goal is to have a complete list with mail and home pages of private company schools and universities.

Then something about their programs in organizational learning. Does the program improve general proformance, systems thinking, team building, self study, problem solving, thinking and creative effort or is industrial training: top down, just a fancy name for training in the Mickey Mouse process, SOP.

We will have our site where this type of collaboration can take place on an intergrated work groups office package. Using MicroSoft office you can open this document edit and replace on a remote site. You can connect to address books, e-mail, data base, charts, graphic editors, all it one smooth package.

The advantages of HTTP documents should be clear. You can click to connect.

Motorola University is hosting in Sept. a meeting of business universities. I knew there was a Mickey Mouse University at Disney Land, A McDonald's hamburger tech, GM Engineering and Management Institute has had huge training programs for years;

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