Culture as a living system of life

© Property Ecuanime (2015) www.ecuanime.com
CULTURE AS A LIVING
SYSTEM OF LIFE
Author – Presenter: Carlos A Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco
SIETAR EUROPA CONGRESS
University of Valencia – 22nd May 2015

My Family

Francisco Varela

The New Generation of
Cultural Practitioners
DEDICATE TO:

MY STORY
I am a son of the sun, the stars, the sea

I learnt from the deserts’ music, the sweat,
tears, and the blood of my people

One day I jumped into the sea to navigate
the veins of the world

BINARY SYSTEM OF HUMAN CONTROL
THE STORY OF A
SYSTEM OF HUMAN,
MYTHS, FICTIONS
PRESSUMPTIONS,
VALUES, BELIEFS,
NORMS, RULES
PERCEPTIONS
FOUNDED ON THE
SUBJECTIVE
EXISTENCE OF A
SUPERHUMAN &
DIVINE ORDER
POWER

Dimensions
Binary
Logic/Rational
Binary
Logic/Rational
Religion
1
God
0
Humans
Power
1
Leader
0
Follower
Reality
1
True
0
False
Moral
1
Good
0
Evil
Ethics
1
Right
0
Wrong
Choice
1
Yes
0
No
Gender
1
Male
0
Female
Corporate
1
Winner
0
Looser
RATIONAL/LOGIC OF THE OPPOSITES

Plato -‐‑ 428/427 BC
Separation mind & body
6.000 YEARS OF WESTERN THINKING
•  Binary
•  Rational
•  Logical
•  Linear
•  Dualist
•  Mechanical
•  Fragmented

Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650)
Separation mind & brain logic & reason
Isaac Newton (1642-‐‑1727)
Body & Mind as machine
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
Rational Empiricism
Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)
Rational Ethics

CHRISTIANITY-‐‑ FICTIONAL
BINARY/RATIONAL
!
The School of Athens
a fresco by Raphael, at Vatican Museum

CHRISTIANITY – FICTIONAL
BINARY /RATIONAL
!
Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), Aristotle gestures to the earth,
representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation and
experience, while holding a copy of his Nicomachean Ethics in his hand

FICTIONAL STORIES OF
RELIGIONS IDEOLOGIES CULTURES
¡  AFRICAN
¡  ARAB
¡  ASIAN
¡  LATIN
¡  EUROPEAN
¡  SCANDINAVIAN
¡  WESTERN
¡  JUDAISM
¡  CHRISTIANITY
¡  ISLAM
¡  BUDDHISM
¡  SHINTOISM
¡  TAOISM
¡  SIKHISM
¡  HINDUISM
¡  LIBERALISM
¡  CAPITALISM
¡  COMMUNISIM
¡  NATIONALISM
¡  NAZISM
¡  ANARCHISM

FICTIONAL SYSTEMS OF
HUMAN CONTROL
STORY OF SYSTEMS OF HUMAN, MYTHS, VALUES,
BELIEFS, NORMS, PERCEPTIONS FOUNDED ON THE
SUBJECTIVE EXISTENCE OF A SUPERHUMAN ORDER
OR NOT
Ideologies
Religions
Cultures

MOST SUCCESFUL HUMAN STORY
MONEY & CORPORATE CULTURE (1610)
Success of Materialism
Marriage: Religion, Science, Money, Military

Separates: Nature from Humans
Separates: Humans from Humans

Separates: Mind from Body
Separates: Body from Soul

BINARY, DUALISTIC
FRAGMENTED THINKING 1596-‐‑1650

SEPARATION: NATURE & HUMANS
Nature has nothing against humans

SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s HUMANS

WAR
Planned execution of human butchery

SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s NATURE
Planet earth is used as
endless cash machine

Mind
Body
Soul
SEAPARATION: MIND, BODY SOUL

THE MIND
Transactional, Materialistic,
Consumeristic, Utilitarian

Search for the superhuman
Humanoids
THE BODY

Worshiping of corporate brands
THE SOUL AND HUMAN SPIRIT

Edward T Hall - USA
Milton Bennett -USA
Geert Hofstede - NLRobert Kohls - USA
Fons Trompenaars - NLRichard D Lewis - ENG
Thank you, Thank you
Time to Move on

The Bell Curve Myth = A Damaging Fraud
Carl Gauss (1777-‐‑1855) The Normal Distribution
Adolphe Quetelet (1796-‐‑187) and The Quetelet Index
All generalizations are false, include this one
Mark Twain

CULTURAL GENERALIZATION
National Homogeneity

GENERAL CULTURAL STEREOTYPES

THE ILLUSION OF HUMAN CONTROL

BINARY LOGIC OF OPPOSITES
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS

BINARY CULTURAL DIFERENCES
A SYSTEM OF HUMAN CONTROL
•  Based on fallacious assumptions that:
–  National and personal culture is ﬁxed, rigid,
stable and unchangeable
–  Human co-‐‑existence is determined, ﬁxed and
based on neutral cultural homogeneity
(values) within nation states

–  Human co-‐‑existence is fixed on cultural
differences
–  Neutral universal values do exist and they are
the only or even main influence on human
behavior

–  Self appointment of universal supremacy by
key nations
–  Reinforces national/individual complex of
superiority
–  Entrenches conﬁrmation biases at all levels
–  Perpetuate human egotism, arrogance, disdain


A WORLD OF ENDLEES
BINARY CULTURAL DIMENSION

DYNAMIC VIEW OF CULTURE
•  Reject the divisive and negative reaﬃrmation of
sophisticated stereotyping
•  Replaces simplistic binary and linear practices
of culture diﬀerences and of the self
•  Recognizes the complexity, the dynamic and
multi-‐‑dimensionality of experiences of culture
and self-‐‑identity

•  Sees culture as dynamic and integrative sets of
relationships humans/humans and humans/
nature
•  Integrate both the dynamic and stable elements
of culture which are understood in terms of the
complex evolution of its context
•  Build from the outset common grounds and
seek to reach together higher grounds of unity

•  Integrate experiential practices and observation
skills to develop knowledge, awareness,
consciences in the self and relationship with
others
•  Oﬀers more complex open-‐‑ended approaches
based on the concept of evolving and integrate
living system of life
•  Seek to achieve common unity in co-‐‑existence
and co-‐‑habiting


THE NEW RELIGION: SCIENCE
Data Information Processing

CRISIS OF HUMAN THINKING
DE-‐‑HUMANISATION

NEW CULTURE:
AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE
“A non-‐‑linear dynamic, a complex and
ever evolving process of integrated
living systems of cognition and
consciousness in the development of
quality human co-‐‑existence and quality
co-‐‑habiting"ʺ™.
Carlos A. Gonzalez Carrasco – 01.02.210

SELF & CULTURE
AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE

BASIS FOR HUMAN CO-‐‑LABOUR-‐‑ACTION
IMAGINATION
EMOTIONS
CREATIVITY
JOY

THE INSIDE/OUT & OUTSIDE/IN
SELF
OTHER

De-‐‑Humanization
SWITCHING AND SHIFTING

BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLYLESS

TRANSCULTURE
”To transcend and evolve from one’s own
existence, environment and culture.

To switch and shift your mindset, to co-‐‑exist, to
experiment, break, belong, fuse, merge, emigrate,
escape, liberate or not, from any ‘culture/
identity’; and/or adopt any forms of "ʺself
expression"ʺ, from your own web of life
To practice qualitative humane co-‐‑existence/co-‐‑
habiting even in situations of adversity”
© Carlos A. Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco 01.02.2010

CONDUCTIVITY
QUALITY IN THE CONNECTION
SELF
OTHER

THE CONVERSATION
EMBODIED QUALITY

NEW QUALITY LANGUAGUE
CO-OWNERSHIP

NEW SHARED AGREEMENTS

WE MAKE OUR THINKING
WE MAKE OUR CULTURE
NEURONS, GENES, DATA
DO NOT MAKE US

Thank You
www.ecuanime.com
Graphics by: www.didosdesigns.com

Culture as a living system of life

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (13)

Featured

Featured (20)

Culture as a living system of life