Dear Organlearners,
Terry Priebe <insight@de-sa.com> writes:
in reply to my:
>>The correct anticipation of the future -- times which will surely
>>come -- is one of the important tasks of learning individuals and
>>learning organizations alike."
>
>I guess we can wait and see, or we could .. how would you say .. be
>proactive and explore the "what would happen if" paths.
Greetings Terry
How wonderful you have contrasted it: "wait and see" versus "what would
happen if".
A bifurcation at the edge of chaos results into either a constructive
emergence or a destructive immergence. Spiritual emergences in humans have
a number of adjoints like hapiness and curiosity. Another adjoint is
expectation (anticipation). The more spiritual emergences we experience,
the more we anticipate the future.
>It seems that we, as a society, are being prepared for these
>types of interconnecting events. Networks are beginning to exist
>in many forms - challenging our capacity to handle the new
>relationships. We can resist, but increasingly our survival depends
>on these interactions.
Terry, what you had been doing above, is to articulate your tacit
knowledge on the essentiality wholeness ("associativity- monadicity")!
Down below it seems that you also articulate sureness
("identity-categoricty").
>Maybe "respect" is a component of the New Age.
You also write:
>Each of these components carries with it hope about the future,
>based on a recognition that we've probably come as far as we
>can by our own thoughts.
Hope is another adjoint of spiritual emergences.
We came as far as we can with very little emergent thinking. In the coming
age we will be able to get much further by making more use of emergent
thinking.
>Linking our thoughts with others may give us a better chance to
>survive (or succeed, depending on which way one wishes to
>phrase it). All we have to figure out is how to respect each other.
I agree. The sense organs of humans are, as a rule of thumb for
individuals, inferior to those of most other mammals. But when we begin to
share the inputs of our sense organs by way of communicating with a
language, the situation change drastically. This collective amplification
has been one of the major forces in the devlopment of human culture.
Unfortunately, most of it happend on the tacit level of knowledge. In
terms of this force (amplified senses) humankind has become very dangerous
to other life forms, causing the extinction of many. Some humans are even
causing the degradation and disempowerment of at least a billion of other
humans. You have stressed rightfully how important respect is.
The lack of respect among humans is a grave danger to the future.
How do we promote respect? I have observed the past 15 years that the more
creative a person is, usually the more respect this person has for other
humans and the rest of nature. In other words, by promoting creativity, we
will indirectly promote respect.
Best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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