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Human Fugue
The document outlines the concept of 'human fugue,' exploring how humans build models to navigate their experiences through four foundational houses: phenomena, rights, resources, and meaning. Each house defines its own processes and authorities, highlighting the iterative nature of knowledge and societal evolution, as well as the active roles of beneficiaries, practitioners, and stewards within these houses. The text emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in finding meaning, linking historical development with contemporary understandings.
Human Fugue
- 1. © 2003-2017 AviriInc Four Houses of the Human Fugue @humanfugue
- 2. © 2003-2017 AviriInc The Modelverse
- 3. © 2003-2017 AviriInc Humans are model-builders ⬥Babies cry ⬥Hunter-gatherers tell stories ⬥Mental Models
- 4. © 2003-2017 AviriInc Working with the Model 1. Learn the Model 2. Locate yourself on the Map 3. Navigate your journey
- 5. © 2003-2017 AviriInc What is a Fugue?
- 6. © 2003-2017 aviri TheHuman Fugue
- 7. © 2003-2017 aviri TheFundamental Shift Authority Process
- 8. © 2003-2017 aviri House1: Phenomena Authority philosopher religion Process Experimental Philosophy
- 9. © 2003-2017 aviri Process:The Scientific Method 1. Observe 2. Hypothesize 3. Experiment 4. Review (share, reproduce, publish) Output: Theories The House of Phenomena
- 10. © 2003-2017 aviri Galileo,founding Steward Articulates the first 3 steps 1623: The Assayer 1610: Sidereus Nuncius i.e. Starry Messenger
- 11. © 2003-2017 aviri Gravityacts uniformly objects of different weights fall at different rates Aristotle’s claim, intuitively obvious… & wrong! Galileo’s experiment: metal & wooden balls @ Leaning Tower of Galileo - Practitioner
- 12. © 2003-2017 aviri TheAuthority Strikes Back Galileo’s Celestial Theory 1632: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems ⬥Heliocentric: sun in center; earth and planets around it (Salviati) ⬥Sagredo ⬥Geocentric: earth stationary, everything goes around it (Simplicio) ⬥Inquisition, house arrest, shutdown of SM in Italy
- 13. © 2003-2017 aviri RoyalSociety completes the Process ⬥Gresham College (1660) - Sir Christopher Wren, John Wilkins, Robert Boyle, et al ⬥Royal Charter (1662) ⬥Curator of Experiments: Robert Hooke ⬥Ipse dixit —> Nullius in verba ⬥Philosophical Transactions: 1665 ⬥Newton Principia: 1687
- 14. © 2003-2017 aviri Theprocess is iterative (repeat!) the melody keeps going gravity Galileo: objects on earth Newton: terrestrial + celestial Einstein: spacetime Hawking: big bang
- 15. © 2003-2017 aviri Sociology Fuguewithin the Fugue… House 1 Fugue Map Physics Chemistry Biology Time Psychology Paleontology Astronomy Archeology … Evolution (1859) Siderius Nuncius (1610) Cunnington et al (1798) Wilhelm Wundt, et al 19th Boyle, Hook, et al (1661) Alchemy Assayer (1623) Linnean Society (1788) Principia (1687) DNA (1953) e=mc2 (1905) Auguste Comte (1838) Durkheim (1895) Gene Ctrl (1970)
- 16. © 2003-2017 aviri MassiveGains from House 1 ⬥Gravity ⬥Electricity + Magnetism ⬥Small/weak nuclear forces
- 17. © 2003-2017 aviri Rolesin the Processes 1. Steward Founding Ongoing 2. Practitioner Novice —> Maestro Ongoing: maintain, improve, share 3. Beneficiary Un/aware: authority-based vs process-based (decide) Active: use results of process Applied: apply output in the world
- 18. © 2003-2017 aviri H1Roles Beneficiary Un/aware: A/P: vaccinations, age of the earth, global warming. Who are the new “authorities?” Active: Students Applied: Engineers Practitioner PhD academic/researcher/scientist Darwin, Einstein, Maxwell Stewards Ongoing: Ben Franklin, WHR Rivers, Karl Popper, Methods,
- 19. © 2003-2017 aviri Locatingourselves in the Map 1. Beneficiary 2. Practitioner 3. Steward
- 20. © 2003-2017 aviri House4 Beneficiary Practitioner Steward ________________’s Human Fugue Map House 1 House 2 House 3 Time P P present
- 21. © 2003-2017 aviri House2: Rights Authority Process king religion Democracy
- 22. © 2003-2017 AviriInc The House of Rights 1. Protest 2. Legislate 3. Execute 4. Review Process: Democracy Output: Laws
- 23. © 2003-2017 AviriInc James Madison Authority: KG III (1776) Founding Stewards Madison, Washington, Franklin, Marshall America 2.0 1789 America 2.0.10 (1789) America 2.1.10 (1803) America 1.0 (1777)
- 24. © 2003-2017 AviriInc Federalist Papers Blog Posts evangelizing the Constitution
- 25. © 2003-2017 aviri ParallelH2 processes 1. Selecting practitioners ⬥S1 (self) ⬥S2/3: voting (and removal) ⬥Electoral College ⬥S4: selected by S2/3 2. Applying the laws (courts, Bill of Rights, Amendments 5-9); Appellate Courts
- 26. © 2003-2017 AviriInc The melody keeps continuing… female: 1848-1920, … black:1861-65!, 1960s, … labor: 1900s sexual/gay: 1969-2014 (bills & amendments) And upcoming: Undocumented, trans, death penalty, death
- 27. © 2003-2017 aviri Environment Fuguewithin Fugue… House 2 Fugue Map Federal Corporations Individuals Time P P present Animals States Labor
- 28. © 2003-2017 aviri H2Roles Beneficiary citizens Active: voting Applied: lawyers Practitioner legislators: senators/congress people/presidents & judges Individuals: ECS/SBA S1 (19th), MLK S1, Gregory Watson S2 (27th), Larry Flynt, Steven Wise, et al. Steward Process amendments, Larry, Judiciary Act of 1891,
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- 30. © 2003-2017 aviri ARepublic, if you can keep it! (Ben Franklin) O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming? And the Rockets’ red glare, the Bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there; O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, O’er the Land of the free, and the home of the brave? Star Spangled Banner (1814)
- 31. © 2003-2017 aviri Processbegets Process… Democracy Third Constitutional Convention A Constitutioning! Scientific Method classical, pragmatic, etc.
- 32. © 2003-2017 aviri House3: Resources Authority Process state entrepreneurship/ capitalism
- 33. © 2003-2017 aviri EntrepreneurshipMethod S1: Identify S2: Create S3: $ell S4: Deliver The House of Resources Process Output: Business Models
- 34. © 2003-2017 aviri Capitalism(Macro + Micro Process) ⬥Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776) ⬥Division of labor (pin factory) ⬥Specialization —> greater output ⬥Comparative Advantage/Trade: David Ricardo Invisible hand? The entrepreneur!
- 35. © 2003-2017 aviri Entrepreneurship ⬥Latin:entre (swim out) + prendes (grasp) ⬥Richard Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of Trade (1755): entrepreneur = risk taker ⬥Jean-Baptiste Say (Steward/practitioner). A Treatise on Political Economy (1803). entrepreneur = planner/
- 36. © 2003-2017 aviri House#3’s ongoing melody responsiveness: industrial services info experiences
- 37. © 2003-2017 aviri Hotels/food Fuguewithin Fugue House 3 Fugue Map Ag/forestry/ fishing/hunting Trade: whole/ Retail Real Estate Time P P present Healthcare Mining/Utilities Construction Manufacturing *NAICS
- 38. © 2003-2017 aviri AuthorityStrikes Back in 20th century ⬥Communism/Socialism ⬥Russia: Czars, brief flirtation, back to authority ⬥Middle East (islam + oil) ⬥Africa (colonialism) ⬥Authority ever-present, even in process-based societies
- 39. © 2003-2017 aviri H3Roles Beneficiaries ★Consumers ★aware: choice, feedback ★applied: job, Craft Entrepreneurs, investors Practitioners ⬥ entrepreneurs: Bootstrap/Effectuation ⬥ Funding-driven: venture capitalists (silicon valley) Stewards • Central Bank (1913) • Silver Standard (1785); Gold Standard 1791, Fiat: 1976- • Schumpeter, Albert Hirschman, Saras Saraswathy, et al
- 40. © 2003-2017 aviri SiliconValley: Maestro H3 Practitioners ⬥Steve Jobs & Apple ⬥CDs —> Downloading ⬥Movie Theaters —> Streaming/Experiences (Alamo Drafthouse) ⬥Retail —> online (amazon) ⬥Taxis —> ride sharing ⬥Hotels —> home sharing (airbnb)
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- 42. © 2003-2017 aviri TheIndividual: empowered and at the center ⬥The elite is no more fixed ⬥Turn the individual from a mere receiver to an active participant and co-creator ⬥Understand and use each House ⬥Harness the collective Each house DEPENDS on the individual!
- 43. © 2003-2017 aviri The3 Houses have Delivered Major Milestones: 1. Fundamental laws of the universe 2. Achievement of significant rights 3. $35-40K GDP/capita (Western Europe, Canada/USA, Australia) …and the process continues Process Trounces Authority
- 44. © 2003-2017 aviri Asymptotes H1:researching smaller phenomena H2: smaller populations H3: trivial/high-end resource needs
- 45. © 2003-2017 aviri TheStage is Set for the 4th House Meaning el(s) by which a being parses its e
- 46. © 2003-2017 aviri House4: Meaning Authority Process religion philosophers culture Houses 1-3 JOurneY
- 47. © 2003-2017 aviri MeaningCannot be Solved by Other Houses It’s personal to each being ⬥H1: infinite philosophies, no convergence ⬥H2: collaborative ⬥H3: transactional
- 48. © 2003-2017 aviri Stewardsof Meaning ⬥ Precursors: Nietzsche (1882/83), Beckett (1953), Psychoanalysis: Freud ⬥ 20th century art: Picasso/Braque, Cubism ⬥ Existentialism ⬥ Carl Jung: dreams, analysis: individuation; HoME, archetypes (models of meaning) ⬥ Viktor Frankl (1946): meaning is the individual’s responsibility ⬥ Joseph Campbell (1949): the meaning journey; external actions lead to inner transformation ⬥ Abraham Maslow (1954), Carl Rogers: self-actualization
- 49. © 2003-2017 aviri House4: Meaning Authority Process religion philosophers culture Houses 1-3 JOurneY
- 50. © 2003-2017 aviri JOurneYMethod: H4 Process S1: Inherit S2: Choose S3: Curate S4: Fugue Output: Meaning Models
- 51. © 2003-2017 AviriInc Austin’s role as founding city: 1970s- ATX Equation: the Infrastructure of H4 in a City Be Yourself! Journey Capital
- 52. © 2003-2017 aviri House4 Subfugue ⬥Human beings ⬥Organizational beings ⬥City being ⬥…
- 53. © 2003-2017 aviri Aesthetics Fuguewithin Fugue… House 4 Fugue Map for Individuals Gender Race Work Time P P present Relationships Sexuality Spirituality
- 54. © 2003-2017 aviri H4Roles Beneficiaries ⬥ using other people’s meaning models Practitioners ⬥ available to all of us! ⬥ “Stewardship” - helping an entity become itself; environment, wolves; a being’s house of meaning. Stewards ⬥ Bijoy Goswami ⬥ Arie de Geus, Danny Gutknecht,
- 55. © 2003-2017 aviri TheFugue Emerges from the Metaphor of Computing ⬥Alan Turing (1936) ⬥Algorithm = Process ⬥View Houses 1-3 retrospectively in terms of algorithms ⬥sequence of steps —> output ⬥if/then loops ⬥repeat ⬥Develop the 4th House as a Process
- 56. © 2003-2017 aviri Meaning (Austin) JOurneY EssenceMining Melodies of the Human Fugue Humanity’s Human Fugue Map Phenomenon (Pisa) Scientific Method (Galileo, Newton et al) 1500s/1600s Democracy (Madison et al) 1776-1803 Rights (Philadelphia) Resources (New York) Capitalism (Smith, Ricardo, Hamilton et al) 1776-1804
- 57. © 2003-2017 aviri TheHuman Fugue
- 58. © 2003-2017 aviri H4 Beneficiary Practitioner Steward CountryHuman Fugue Maps H1 H2 H3 Time P P present Japan/Germany/India (1945/47) India (1991) China (1979) Taiwan/Korea 1980s Japan/Germany (1945) SF - S2 (1960s) USA - S3?USA - S2 infrastructure
- 59. © 2003-2017 aviri UnitedKingdom ⬥Steward of H1 ⬥H2: Supreme Court ⬥H3: Industrial Revolution ⬥H4: the House of Windsor
- 60. © 2003-2017 aviri CountryHuman Fugue Preferences ⬥Computers: UK vs USA ⬥Healthcare: USA vs Canada/Europe ⬥Germany’s H1
- 61. © 2003-2017 aviri Countries’Journey adopting the processes ■ India (socialism: 1947-1991) ■ China, Russia (democracy) ■ the Middle East A key feature—noise/activity misunderstood as chaos/weakness—makes Authority appealing
- 62. © 2003-2017 aviri H4(18)49ers Gold Rush Melodies of the Human Fugue Silicon Valley’s Human Fugue Map H1 Stanford H2 H3 Railroad Barons Fred Terman R&D Emp Ret Act ‘74 Cap Gains ‘78 Bootstrap HP 1934 Bootstrap + Angel VC Platforms Silicon Valley
- 63. © 2003-2017 aviri CityHuman Fugue Preferences ⬥Boston? ⬥DC? ⬥LA/ ⬥Austin?!
- 64. © 2003-2017 aviri JourneyEntrepreneurship: all the Houses
- 65. © 2003-2017 aviri JourneyBuddy ⬥Schedule time to connect ⬥Which House do you live in?! ⬥Role within the houses? ⬥Next step on your journey?
- 66. © 2003-2017 aviri AviriFoundation Bootstrap JOurneY MRE ATX EquationHuman Fugue Steward of Meaning Models Essence Mining
- 67. © 2003-2017 aviri HumanFugue Social Media ⬥humanfugue.com ⬥facebook.com/humanufugue ⬥twitter.com/humanfugue ⬥Siminar
- 68. © 2003-2017 aviri HumanFugue Resources H1: The Fellowship, Great Experiment, Evolution, H2: Genius of America, H3: Passions and the Interests, Bootstrappers, , Marginal University, Joe Pine (H3 cartographer), H4: Meaning at Work, Human Fugue: Systems of Survival, Films: Human Fugue, H1, H2
- 69. © 2003-2017 aviri Invitation Reachfor the Apple, Eve, Isaac and Steve Inspire us toward new worlds to conceive, Eve’s act took us forth from sheep so asleep Out of the garden to lords of our keep, Isaac did ponder orbs apple and moon Found the vast forces of gravity’s tune, Steve was inspired cherishing the byte A Bike for the mind his Apple took flight, What insights emerge from this treat of lores Come on, take a bite: its fruit could be yours!
Editor's Notes
- #3 physicist giving lecture, lady says: I know what holds up the universe! Elephants? And what holds the elephants? Turtle? And wha…I knew you would ask, it’s turtles all the way down!
- #4 Conceptual Models All models are wrong…
- #7 4 major innovations: Authority to (click) process
- #8 church puts Galileo under house arrest…but it’s too late. 500 years later: hammer and feather on the moon
- #9 church puts Galileo under house arrest…but it’s too late. 500 years later: hammer and feather on the moon
- #12 and many other experiments: observations of the moon through a telescope - Galileo’s wish apocryphal?! even though Galileo was put under house arrest, the horse had left the barn: scientific m
- #13 note, this is NOT how scientists communicate today…why? They don’t have to cop to an authority, except the process.
- #14 Open lectures: and still to this day! “he himself said it” to “take no one’s word”
- #15 Isaac: 1687; einstein: 1905; hawking (1970) gravity continues: dark matter, dark energy… electromagnetism, strong/weak nuclear forces evolution etc.
- #16 each of these disciplines has developed its own version of the Scientific Method Just as Galileo moved us from the center of the universe, Darwin moved us to our correct spot in the tree of life. Just like Galileo, delayed publication by 14 years because of concerns it contradicted religious beliefs
- #19 Laird Hamilton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jenny McCarthy, et al
- #22 church puts Galileo under house arrest…but it’s too late. 500 years later: hammer and feather on the moon
- #24 further tests: civil war; current version: 2.1.27 French Revolution: 1789, Terror & back to the Authority: Napoleon—made emperor till 1815; Oliver Cromwell: lord protector Remind you of another place today?
- #25 Alexander Hamilton (51), James Madison (29), John Jay (5),
- #26 the way to get H2 installed in a country is to protest! Antis, Declaration of Independence:
- #27 Just like the scientific method, Civil war was a test to use force (authority) rather than the process. Lincoln wasn’t just fighting for the issue but for the process itself. 1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, sexual rights:
- #28 we can think of these as melodies in a fugue: Douglas Hofstadter
- #31 Fort McHenry, war of 1812. National anthem: 1931
- #32 proviso in the constitution to do a 3.0 major revision
- #33 church puts Galileo under house arrest…but it’s too late. 500 years later: hammer and feather on the moon
- #36 Say’s battle with Napoleon (who advocated authority-based state role) led to him becoming a practitioner running a textile mill. Thomas Jefferson asked Say to come to America. James Madison, admirer!
- #38 North American Industry Classification System
- #40 SV: the ultimate expression of capitalism Schumpeter: Theory of Econ Development (1911)
- #43 affordance
- #44 gravity: 1600s, electromagnetism: 1800s, strong/weak nuclear: 1900s. EO Wilson: diminishing areas of inquiry USA: gay rights: Other rights ongoing: death penalty, corporations, animals, AI, etc. reduction of violence (better angels) Happiness doesn’t go up after $40K. Many countries have achieved this milestone, with others not far behind.
- #47 church puts Galileo under house arrest…but it’s too late. 500 years later: hammer and feather on the moon
- #49 Jung akin to Galileo, Madison & Smith - prime founder
- #50 church puts Galileo under house arrest…but it’s too late. 500 years later: hammer and feather on the moon
- #55 “stewards of Yellowstone/forests”
- #56 Constitution read like a computer program
- #57 we can think of these as melodies in a fugue: Douglas Hofstadter
- #59 we can think of these as melodies in a fugue: Douglas Hofstadter
- #62 Bletchley Park: dominance of rights house versus resources meant that the program was shut down after the gov. Europe, in general, looks to the rights house much more than the USA 2008 Financial Crisis: nowhere near as bad as 1929 - the systems responded
- #63 we can think of these as melodies in a fugue: Douglas Hofstadter