Emergent Futures

At the Limina of Complexity and Consciousness

Between Epochs

Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next

We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship

Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next

Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite

• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory

We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship

Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next

Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite

• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory

We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship

Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next

We Must Entirely Rethink &Understand Our Humanity

Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite

• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory

We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship

Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next

We Need a Vision of a New Eden and a New Global Ethic

We Must Entirely Rethink &Understand Our Humanity

Reason is not enoughWe Need to Reunite

• Reason• Emotion• Intuition• Narrative• Allegory

We have been Reduced to: • Love of Family • Loyalty to Friends • Following the Law • Democracy is Wonderful • Free Market Worship

Emergence is Replacing ReductionismNotes from Stewart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacredon the impacts of Reductionism and what we must do next

We Need a Vision of a New Eden and a New Global Ethic

We Must Entirely Rethink &Understand Our Humanity

We Need a Global Conversation and a New Enlightenment

Second Order Consequences

“Robot psychology still prevails in our society and, even more, seems necessary to keep it going: reducing man to the lower levels of his animal nature, manipulating him into a feeble-minded automaton of consumption or a marionette of political power, systematically stultifying him by a perverse system of education …turning Jeffersonian democracy into a manipulated herd of cattle.”

Second Order Consequences

“Robot psychology still prevails in our society and, even more, seems necessary to keep it going: reducing man to the lower levels of his animal nature, manipulating him into a feeble-minded automaton of consumption or a marionette of political power, systematically stultifying him by a perverse system of education …turning Jeffersonian democracy into a manipulated herd of cattle.”

(Bertalanffy, 1968)

Second Order Consequences

Complexity Complex Adaptive Systems Offer a Holistic New Framework of Tools and Perspectives to Ease the Transition Between Epochs

• Self Organization

• Synchronicity

• Effortless Action

• Organismic Frame

• New Metaphors

• Autopoeisis

• Strange Attractors

• Initial Conditions

• Local Minimums

• Turbulent Flow

Consciousness But There are Many Obstacles to Understanding and Using Complex Adaptive Systems

Functional Fixedness

Physical & Mental Blind Spots

Cultural Programming

Mechanistic & Deterministic Models

Reductionist Empiricism

Cultivating the Network of Minds and the Mind of the NetworkRefocus on Human Meaning & Purpose

There Are Strategies for Overcoming These Obstacles

Cultivating the Network of MindsLearning Community/Appreciative Systems

Storytelling - Indigenous Wisdom

Transpersonal & Quantum Metaphors

Multi-Spectral Work Place Environments

T. Autonomous Zones

Cultivating the Mind of the Network

Self Organizing Ad Hoc Mesh Networks

Social Network Agents

Active Packets & Beneficial Viruses

Convolving Cyber and Physical Spaces

Serious Games...