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© 2012 Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University

For Classroom Use Only!No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval

system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing from the Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University.

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WORLD 1From the Big Bang to Conscious Humans

MODULE 1A Quest to Understand Where

Everything Comes From

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Where did we come from? What is our story?

How do the worldviews* we hold influence the way we see and interpret the world around us?

What do insights from the sciences of complexity have to tell us about the deeper patterns that

influence our evolutionary journey?

Focus Questions

* worldview |ˈwərldˌvyoō| (also world view) • nouna particular philosophy of life or conception of the world: a Christian worldview revolves around the battle of good and evil. (New Oxford American Dictionary 2nd edition © 2005 by Oxford University Press, Inc.)

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LEARNING UNIT 1Overview of our Evolutionary Journey

LEARNING UNIT 2A Brief History of the Evolution of the major Western Worldviews and Scientific Paradigms

LEARNING UNIT 3Appreciating Things from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems and Living Systems Theory

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LEARNING UNIT 1Overview of our Evolutionary Journey

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Fig. source: Hubbard Marx Barbara (1998): Conscious Evolution

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Classic Scientific Method: Reductionist, Mechanistic Worldview

Holistic Paradigm: Systems based and Integral Worldview

Energy+

Matter

Consciousness+

Information

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PatternsIn Nature

Sand Waves and Tides Landscape

Bird Flock Wild Bee Hive Ant Foraging

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PatternsIn Art and Music

“Fall” by artist Bridget Riley, 1963 “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

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Recurring decimals: repeating sequences of digits which repeat infinitely. For example, 1 divided by 81 will result in the answer 0.012345679...the numbers 0-9 (except 8) will repeat forever. 1/81 is a recurring decimal.

Fibonacci Sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…

Golden Rectangle: two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The “golden ratio” is an irrational mathematical constant, approximately 1.6180339887.

PatternsIn Mathematics

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PatternsOf Chaotic Systems

Fractal

Computer Generated pattern

Lorentz’s weather pattern (“butterfly effect”)

Frost crystals formed naturally on cold glass

illustrate fractal process development in a purely

physical system

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LEARNING UNIT 2A Quick History of the major Western Worldviews and Scientific Paradigms

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What do you see?

Our mental structures constrain what we see

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Aristotle, 384 BCPlato, 428-427 BC

The material world as it appears to us is not the real world, but only an image or copy of the real world.

The basis of reality exists in an entirely transcendent and immaterial realm of ideal entities.

The natural world consists of concrete particulars which have recognizable universal patterns.

True reality is the perceptible world of concrete objects, not an imperceptible world of eternal ideas.

Ancient Greek Worldviews

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The Scientific Revolution

Descartes, 1596-1650Galileo, 1564-1642 Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727

Heliocentric ViewThen controversial idea that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Mind/Body Dichotomy“I think, therefore I am”

Rational AnalysisLogical thinking is the main approach to understand the world; no need of sensorial experience.

Universal Laws of MotionMankind has precise, predictive power over nature.

DeterminismThe Universe operates like a predictable clockwork.

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Complexity Everywhere

The Limit of the

Scientific Method

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Complexity Sciences: A Trans-Disciplinary Domain of Research

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_systems

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In the twenty-first century, science is evolving a holistic picture of reality. The emerging holism of the new physics, the new biology, and the newest branches of psychology mesh with and lend fresh

legitimacy to the holistic world-concept of the great cultural traditions. The holism of the new

civilization we need can have both a scientific and a cultural foundation.

~ Ervin Laszlo, The Chaos Point, 2006

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LEARNING UNIT 3Appreciating Things from the Perspective of Complex Systems and Living Systems Theory

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Patterns in Living Systems

Sensitivity to initial condition

Adaptation

Self-organization

Emergence

Creativity

A tendency to develop ever increasing levels of structural complexity, coherence and order

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“The threat lies in the realization that in our universe the security of stable, permanent rules are gone forever. We are living in a dangerous and uncertain world that inspires no blind confidence. Our hope arises from the knowledge that even small fluctuations may grow and change the overall structure. As a result, individual activity is not doomed to insignificance”

-Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos, 1984.

The Butterfly Effect

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Adaptation

Self-Organization

Emergence

Creativity

Order

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Bifurcation

Greater flexibility and creativity

More structural complexity

More degrees of freedom

Higher flows of matter, info, energy

Time

Life Conditions

New Life Conditions

Regression path

Surge to New Dynamic Stability

Extinction path

Critical point

Dynamic Stability/ Equilibrium

Chaos Phase- Outcome ???

Capacity

Evolutionary Path

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“To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come”

~Erich Jantsch

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new

landscapes but in having new eyes.~ Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 – 1922)