DRAFT - DRAFT - DRAFT
Use file to copy to c:/temp then open in browser, or
Edit, select all, copy and paste to word pad, then save as
synergy.htm
The working text is on http://www.wiredbrain.net/~pflaum
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 Journal too long... what do we take
out ?
RE:
The Synergy 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 SYNERGY JOURNAL. I
reviewed the
>draft copy. What I am wondering is if you are asking for
contributions
>from other writers. Can you give me a general idea of the
things you
>would be looking for so I can assess if this is a venue I might
be
>interested in?
>
>I have been publishing a print newsletter for almost two years
that
>supports and encourages people who are shifting to see their
life as a
>spiritual journey. My website has a place to beging electronic
>publication, and I am, in fact, preparing to publish the first
on-line
>issue. You are certainly welcome to skim through my website,
which at
>this time mostly contains the on-line version of my journal
writing
>workshop called "Writing
The Journey".
>
>Charlene
>Crow Communications
>crow@getnet.com
>http://www.getnet.com/~crow
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
Use file to copy to c:/temp then open in browser, or
Edit, select all, copy and paste to word pad, then save as
synergy.htm
The working text is on http://www.wiredbrain.net/~pflaum
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 Journal too long... what do we take
out ?
RE:
The Synergy 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 SYNERGY JOURNAL. I
reviewed the
>draft copy. What I am wondering is if you are asking for
contributions
>from other writers. Can you give me a general idea of the
things you
>would be looking for so I can assess if this is a venue I might
be
>interested in?
>
>I have been publishing a print newsletter for almost two years
that
>supports and encourages people who are shifting to see their
life as a
>spiritual journey. My website has a place to beging electronic
>publication, and I am, in fact, preparing to publish the first
on-line
>issue. You are certainly welcome to skim through my website,
which at
>this time mostly contains the on-line version of my journal
writing
>workshop called "Writing
The Journey".
>
>Charlene
>Crow Communications
>crow@getnet.com
>http://www.getnet.com/~crow
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 Journal too long... what do we take
out ?
RE:
The Synergy 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 SYNERGY JOURNAL. I
reviewed the
>draft copy. What I am wondering is if you are asking for
contributions
>from other writers. Can you give me a general idea of the
things you
>would be looking for so I can assess if this is a venue I might
be
>interested in?
>
>I have been publishing a print newsletter for almost two years
that
>supports and encourages people who are shifting to see their
life as a
>spiritual journey. My website has a place to beging electronic
>publication, and I am, in fact, preparing to publish the first
on-line
>issue. You are certainly welcome to skim through my website,
which at
>this time mostly contains the on-line version of my journal
writing
>workshop called "Writing
The Journey".
>
>Charlene
>Crow Communications
>crow@getnet.com
>http://www.getnet.com/~crow
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
RE:
The Synergy 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 SYNERGY JOURNAL. I
reviewed the
>draft copy. What I am wondering is if you are asking for
contributions
>from other writers. Can you give me a general idea of the
things you
>would be looking for so I can assess if this is a venue I might
be
>interested in?
>
>I have been publishing a print newsletter for almost two years
that
>supports and encourages people who are shifting to see their
life as a
>spiritual journey. My website has a place to beging electronic
>publication, and I am, in fact, preparing to publish the first
on-line
>issue. You are certainly welcome to skim through my website,
which at
>this time mostly contains the on-line version of my journal
writing
>workshop called "Writing
The Journey".
>
>Charlene
>Crow Communications
>crow@getnet.com
>http://www.getnet.com/~crow
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at SYNERGY JOURNAL. I
reviewed the
>draft copy. What I am wondering is if you are asking for
contributions
>from other writers. Can you give me a general idea of the
things you
>would be looking for so I can assess if this is a venue I might
be
>interested in?
>
>I have been publishing a print newsletter for almost two years
that
>supports and encourages people who are shifting to see their
life as a
>spiritual journey. My website has a place to beging electronic
>publication, and I am, in fact, preparing to publish the first
on-line
>issue. You are certainly welcome to skim through my website,
which at
>this time mostly contains the on-line version of my journal
writing
>workshop called "Writing
The Journey".
>
>Charlene
>Crow Communications
>crow@getnet.com
>http://www.getnet.com/~crow
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
The Journey".
>
>Charlene
>Crow Communications
>crow@getnet.com
>http://www.getnet.com/~crow
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 !
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how companies
can use standard Internet
technologies to deploy a rich, full-function, ubiquitous
environment for information sharing,
communication, and applications, built on top of open networking
technologies and on an open
network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored in a report of the
same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a Full Service
Intranet is a TCP/IP network inside a
company that links the company's people and information in a way
that makes people more
productive, information more accessible, and navigation through
all the resources and applications
of the company's computing environment more seamless than ever
before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open
standards and protocols that have
emerged from the Internet.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
These open standards make possible
applications and services like
email, groupware, security, directory, information sharing,
database access, and management that
are as powerful, and in many cases more powerful, than
traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft BackOffice. Because the Full Service
Intranet is built on these open
standards, customers reap the benefits of cross-platform and
cross-database support, flexibility,
and vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage
the innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of
services.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
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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 ?
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.
These services are provided by
the intranet's software environment - which, since intranet
software runs across all client and
server operating systems and hardware platforms, results in a
common network environment that
spans even the most heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with
capabilities like looking up information,
sending and receiving email, and searching directories.
These
services also allow custom and
third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or
financial applications, to take
advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas
like replication and security.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
These
services make life easy for IT managers, since everything can be
centrally managed, and
capabilities like security and directories are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision: user services,
which provide resources and applications for end users, and
network services, which help tie
together and run the overall network environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user services:
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network
services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
- Information sharing and management
- Communication and collaboration
- Navigation
- Application access
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network services:
- Directory
- Replication
- Security
- Management
The following two sections explain the Full Service
Intranet's user and network services.
USER SERVICES
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
(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).
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
cheers,
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
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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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
The way "work" 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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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 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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
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, ( on Margin ) 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 JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.com
will replace all other mailing.
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 ?
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.
Mancur Olson's