Manuel Manga
www.evolutionleader.com
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Innovation as history making. ontological design and the disclosure of the newGoldsmiths design
The document discusses innovation and related concepts from several perspectives. It covers innovation theory from scholars like Joseph Schumpeter, open innovation concepts from Henry Chesbrough, and discussions of knowledge and learning from thinkers like Donald Schon and Chris Argyris. Additionally, it references the work of philosophers like Michel Foucault and theorists of complex systems like Haridimos Tsoukas. The document aims to provide a comprehensive overview of discourses related to innovation from various fields.
This lighting talk aims to explore, from an holistic point of view as opposed to the reductionist thinking, how the Lean Agile methodologies can be considered as part of the “turning point” in the crisis of Western reductionist way of thinking. Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all life – from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy – is organized along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network. Both (Lean & Agile) offer a thinking tool set that allow us to create new models and different approaches. Hence, in this lighting talk I would like to affirm how tightly humans are connected with the fabric of life and make it clear that it is imperative to organize our world according to a different set of values and beliefs.
1. Hermeneutics is an interpretive method for understanding human meaning and values, which are culturally and historically situated. Positivism is too restrictive for understanding human motivation fully.
2. Interpretation of social and cultural contexts is needed to understand human experience, separate from studying natural sciences. Shared meanings and norms are constructed through communication within a community.
3. Through interpretive understanding of others' perspectives and motivations informed by shared cultural systems, it is possible to overcome the subject-object divide in understanding human behavior.
This document discusses human nature from an Indo-Eastern perspective across several philosophies. It describes the Vedantic view that the core of human beings is Brahman, or pure consciousness and bliss. The Jain perspective emphasizes non-violence and the Buddhist view focuses on the four noble truths about suffering and its cessation. Sufism aims to help individuals realize their true nature and experience the divine spark within through spiritual practices and teachings.
The document discusses artificial life and related topics. It begins with introductions to artificial life, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, and distributed intelligence. It then provides examples of emergent patterns in artificial life systems, such as Lindenmeyer systems, diffusion limited aggregation, Conway's Game of Life, and agent-based models of chimpanzee societies. The document aims to explore general principles of life through computational modeling and simulation.
This document discusses different theoretical perspectives and models of organization. It begins by defining key concepts like theory, concepts, and abstraction. It then contrasts modernist, symbolic-interpretive, and postmodern perspectives based on their underlying ontologies and epistemologies. Four models of organization are presented: the rational/formal model which views organizations like machines; the political/factional model which sees organizations as arenas of competition; the caring model which focuses on relationships; and the civic model which emphasizes deliberation and the common good.
The document summarizes the philosophical views of several thinkers on human nature, including:
- René Descartes viewed humans as both thinking and physical substances.
- Karl Marx believed human nature is derived from labor and productivity.
- Thomas Hobbes saw humans as motivated solely by desires and self-interest in a "state of nature."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought humans were born good but corrupted by society.
- Jean-Paul Sartre and Karl Jaspers described ways to attain authentic human existence through freedom and responsibility.
Manuel Manga
www.evolutionleader.com
This work created by Manuel Manga is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Innovation as history making. ontological design and the disclosure of the newGoldsmiths design
The document discusses innovation and related concepts from several perspectives. It covers innovation theory from scholars like Joseph Schumpeter, open innovation concepts from Henry Chesbrough, and discussions of knowledge and learning from thinkers like Donald Schon and Chris Argyris. Additionally, it references the work of philosophers like Michel Foucault and theorists of complex systems like Haridimos Tsoukas. The document aims to provide a comprehensive overview of discourses related to innovation from various fields.
This lighting talk aims to explore, from an holistic point of view as opposed to the reductionist thinking, how the Lean Agile methodologies can be considered as part of the “turning point” in the crisis of Western reductionist way of thinking. Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all life – from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy – is organized along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network. Both (Lean & Agile) offer a thinking tool set that allow us to create new models and different approaches. Hence, in this lighting talk I would like to affirm how tightly humans are connected with the fabric of life and make it clear that it is imperative to organize our world according to a different set of values and beliefs.
1. Hermeneutics is an interpretive method for understanding human meaning and values, which are culturally and historically situated. Positivism is too restrictive for understanding human motivation fully.
2. Interpretation of social and cultural contexts is needed to understand human experience, separate from studying natural sciences. Shared meanings and norms are constructed through communication within a community.
3. Through interpretive understanding of others' perspectives and motivations informed by shared cultural systems, it is possible to overcome the subject-object divide in understanding human behavior.
This document discusses human nature from an Indo-Eastern perspective across several philosophies. It describes the Vedantic view that the core of human beings is Brahman, or pure consciousness and bliss. The Jain perspective emphasizes non-violence and the Buddhist view focuses on the four noble truths about suffering and its cessation. Sufism aims to help individuals realize their true nature and experience the divine spark within through spiritual practices and teachings.
The document discusses artificial life and related topics. It begins with introductions to artificial life, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, and distributed intelligence. It then provides examples of emergent patterns in artificial life systems, such as Lindenmeyer systems, diffusion limited aggregation, Conway's Game of Life, and agent-based models of chimpanzee societies. The document aims to explore general principles of life through computational modeling and simulation.
This document discusses different theoretical perspectives and models of organization. It begins by defining key concepts like theory, concepts, and abstraction. It then contrasts modernist, symbolic-interpretive, and postmodern perspectives based on their underlying ontologies and epistemologies. Four models of organization are presented: the rational/formal model which views organizations like machines; the political/factional model which sees organizations as arenas of competition; the caring model which focuses on relationships; and the civic model which emphasizes deliberation and the common good.
The document summarizes the philosophical views of several thinkers on human nature, including:
- René Descartes viewed humans as both thinking and physical substances.
- Karl Marx believed human nature is derived from labor and productivity.
- Thomas Hobbes saw humans as motivated solely by desires and self-interest in a "state of nature."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought humans were born good but corrupted by society.
- Jean-Paul Sartre and Karl Jaspers described ways to attain authentic human existence through freedom and responsibility.
1. The document discusses the development of industry and organizations from various perspectives including sociology, psychology, and management. It notes that organizations are formed by individuals interacting to meet needs through combining resources like labor and materials.
2. It then discusses Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Douglas McGregor's distinction between primary physical/emotional needs and secondary intellectual needs. Industries often focus only on the basic needs.
3. Technological development drives social change as seen through history. The industrial revolution transformed societies through substituting machines for human labor. This process of industrialization tends to produce common consequences across cultures.
This document provides an introduction to Jungian archetypes. It discusses 8 main archetypes: Mother, Father, Feminine Lover, Masculine Lover, Adaptive Thinker, Abstract Thinker, External Manager, and Internal Manager. These archetypes emerged throughout human history and prehistory in relation to survival needs. The document also discusses ideal, mundane, developed, undeveloped, and inappropriate expressions of the archetypes and how they relate to an individual's pursuit of happiness. It suggests analyzing historical eras and interests to understand dominant archetypes.
Philosophy of Time, Science, and AestheticsMelanie Swan
Aesthetics and science are two modes of understanding reality, with a greater possibility of rapprochement through the philosophical consideration of time
This document discusses the idea that objects have their own social lives and biographies independent of humans. It argues that traditional social sciences have viewed objects as passive tools for humans rather than active social subjects. The document outlines how some social theorists have begun to analyze how objects shape social dynamics and interactions through their material properties and technological functions. It asserts that fully understanding social phenomena requires examining the role of material objects, as objects have their own personalities and histories that interact with human personalities to form social networks.
Philosophy and Family Therapy: Intersubjectivity, Ethics, Biopolitics - IFTA ...Université de Montréal
Presentation of my reflections on philosophy and family during my philosophical investigations at the European Graduate School.
IFTA - Buenos Aires, Argentina - 19 March 2010
Practice theory shifts understandings of human agency and social order in 3 key ways: 1) It encourages understanding individuals not as rational actors or products of social forces, but as embodied agents who carry out routinized practices involving bodily movements, interpretations, desires and use of objects. 2) It conceptualizes knowledge and social structures as rooted in shared practical skills and routines, rather than mental categories, discourse or interaction. 3) In doing so, it challenges modern social theories' tendency to over-rationalize human behavior and recenters analysis on embodied, situated practices rather than the mind, communication or text.
The document discusses different perspectives on the nature and characteristics of modern man. It explores how man's nature can be modified through social interaction and education. While man possesses rational thinking, he is also susceptible to evil influences from society. There are differing views on whether man's nature is essentially good or tainted by evil. The document also examines what constitutes the highest good and how man seeks happiness through achieving what he considers good in life.
This article analyzes being as a fundamental category of philosophy. Forms of existence are considered. The views of thinkers have been critically discussed. Arislanbaeva Zoya Ernazarovna. (2020). BEING IS A FUNDAMENTAL CATEGORY OF PHILOSOPHY. International Journal on Orange Technologies, 2(12), 29-33. https://doi.org/10.31149/ijot.v2i12.1049 Pdf Url: https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJOT/article/view/1049/997 Paper Url: https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJOT/article/view/1049
The document discusses the relationship between modern science and humanity. It argues that modern science views humans as evolved animals whose thoughts and consciousness originate solely from the brain. However, this view is contradicted by evidence such as hemispherectomies not affecting personality or memory. Traditional sciences viewed humans as multi-dimensional beings with consciousness originating from higher spiritual dimensions. The document calls for science to adopt a more open-minded approach and reconsider its limiting assumptions and axioms in order to develop models that can better explain all observed phenomena.
In this original Digital Art and Philosophy class, we will become familiar with different forms of digital art and related philosophical issues. Digital art is anything related to computers and art such as using a computer to create art or an art display that is digitized. Philosophical aspects arise regarding art, identity, performance, interactivity, and the process of creation. Students may respond to the material in essay, performance, or digital art work (optional). Instructor: Melanie Swan. Syllabus: www.MelanieSwan.com/PCA
This document discusses mystical and metaphysical claims and beliefs. It provides examples of mystical statements from figures like Ken Wilber and Dr. Bronner. It then examines some issues with mystical and metaphysical claims, such as the tendency to conflate what is good with what is real, and the potential for faulty logic. The document argues that embodiment, fallibility, and cognitive biases should encourage caution and reflection regarding absolute or foundational claims about reality that cannot be scientifically proven.
This document discusses human persons and their relationship with the environment from philosophical and theoretical perspectives. It describes the anthropocentric model, which views humans as superior to nature, and the ecocentric model, which sees humans as part of the natural world. The ecocentric model includes theories of deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism. The document also discusses early philosophers like Anaximander and Pythagoras and their views on nature. Overall, it analyzes different frameworks for understanding the human-environment relationship.
1. The document provides an overview and definitions of key terms from the WingMakers philosophy, including Entity, Sovereign Integral, Genetic Mind, and OLIN Technology.
2. It describes two models of existence - the Evolution/Saviorship model and the Transformation/Mastership model - and notes humans are evolving toward a synthesis of the two.
3. The Genetic Mind is defined as the accumulated beliefs of a species imprinted by the Hierarchy to limit what is acceptable to believe, but the WingMakers aim to expand its boundaries through concepts like OLIN Technology.
This section discusses life and the human experience from a scientific perspective. It proposes that humans experience narrative structure that creates a sense of identity through the meaning-making process. The objective world and our subjective experiences interact to form narratives that are shared between people. Understanding life requires comprehending how structure, process, and pattern interact in our experiential world.
Kluckhohn argued that culture allows humans to organize and understand the world in different ways. Each culture has its own "design for living" that seems normal within that culture but may seem strange or "queer" to outsiders. He gave the example of a white teacher who misunderstood why her Navajo students were upset about a dance, because she did not understand their cultural precepts and norms. Kluckhohn's concept of "queer customs" illustrates the principle of cultural relativism, which states that cultural practices cannot be fully understood outside of their cultural context.
Kluckhohn argued that culture allows humans to organize and understand the world in different ways. Each culture has its own "design for living" that seems normal within that culture but may seem strange or "queer" to outsiders. He gave the example of a white teacher who misunderstood why her Navajo students were upset about a dance, because she did not understand their cultural precepts and norms. Kluckhohn's concept of "queer customs" illustrates the principle of cultural relativism, which states that cultural practices cannot be fully understood outside of their cultural context.
The Age of Plenty and Leisure: Essays for a New Principle of Organization in ...Luke Barnesmoore o
This document provides context for a collection of essays that examines potential futures beyond the current "Age of Scarcity and Labor" towards an "Age of Plenty and Leisure". It describes growing up between visions of high-tech utopias in Silicon Valley and low-tech nature-focused utopias among environmentalists. The essays aim to synthesize these visions by using technology to overcome scarcity while maintaining harmony with nature. Each essay will contribute individually to an emergent overall theory, like neurons forming consciousness. The goal is to allow new understandings of humanity, evolution, social order and human-nature relations to emerge from exploring these interconnected ideas.
Discoveries from the Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverseexouniversity
The document discusses discoveries that can be drawn from research into the dimensional ecology of the omniverse. Some key points:
1) The omniverse hypothesis proposes that the multiverse (parallel universes) and spiritual dimensions together form a dimensional ecology that encompasses all intelligent life, including civilizations in other universes and dimensions as well as souls and spiritual beings.
2) Estimates suggest there are over 100 billion communicating civilizations in our universe alone, and vastly more in the entire multiverse and omniverse based on calculations of parallel universes and planets.
3) Empirical evidence supports the existence of intelligent civilizations of souls and spiritual beings in spiritual dimensions beyond the multiverse. Together with
Alfred Webre - Discoveries from the Dimensional Ecology of the OmniverseExopolitics Hungary
The document discusses discoveries that can be drawn from research into the dimensional ecology of the omniverse. Some key points:
1) The omniverse hypothesis proposes that the multiverse (parallel universes) and spiritual dimensions together form a dimensional ecology that encompasses intelligent civilizations.
2) Estimates suggest there are over 100 billion communicating civilizations in our universe, and vastly more in the entire multiverse and omniverse based on calculations of parallel universes.
3) Research provides evidence for intelligent civilizations of souls and spiritual beings that reside in spiritual dimensions outside the multiverse.
4) Taken together, the data supports that we live in a populated omniverse that includes physical and spiritual dimensions
This document discusses reflexivity and culture. It defines reflexivity as the ability to consider oneself in relation to social contexts. Reflexivity occurs through internal conversations where people deliberate on their circumstances and decide on courses of action. Culture mediates between objective structures and subjective agency. The author aims to develop a theoretical framework showing how reflexivity relates to sociocultural interactions and cultural systems. Their PhD research longitudinally studies reflexivity and culture in university students to iteratively develop this theory in dialogue with empirical data.
The document discusses the changing understanding of the role of the human body in society. While technology has facilitated a more disembodied existence, recent research shows that the body plays a key role in constructing our consciousness and cognition. Movements like walking both reflect our social structures and influence how we think in complex ways. The boundary between human and machine is also increasingly blurred, as our bodies are enhanced by new technologies.
1. The document discusses the development of industry and organizations from various perspectives including sociology, psychology, and management. It notes that organizations are formed by individuals interacting to meet needs through combining resources like labor and materials.
2. It then discusses Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Douglas McGregor's distinction between primary physical/emotional needs and secondary intellectual needs. Industries often focus only on the basic needs.
3. Technological development drives social change as seen through history. The industrial revolution transformed societies through substituting machines for human labor. This process of industrialization tends to produce common consequences across cultures.
This document provides an introduction to Jungian archetypes. It discusses 8 main archetypes: Mother, Father, Feminine Lover, Masculine Lover, Adaptive Thinker, Abstract Thinker, External Manager, and Internal Manager. These archetypes emerged throughout human history and prehistory in relation to survival needs. The document also discusses ideal, mundane, developed, undeveloped, and inappropriate expressions of the archetypes and how they relate to an individual's pursuit of happiness. It suggests analyzing historical eras and interests to understand dominant archetypes.
Philosophy of Time, Science, and AestheticsMelanie Swan
Aesthetics and science are two modes of understanding reality, with a greater possibility of rapprochement through the philosophical consideration of time
This document discusses the idea that objects have their own social lives and biographies independent of humans. It argues that traditional social sciences have viewed objects as passive tools for humans rather than active social subjects. The document outlines how some social theorists have begun to analyze how objects shape social dynamics and interactions through their material properties and technological functions. It asserts that fully understanding social phenomena requires examining the role of material objects, as objects have their own personalities and histories that interact with human personalities to form social networks.
Philosophy and Family Therapy: Intersubjectivity, Ethics, Biopolitics - IFTA ...Université de Montréal
Presentation of my reflections on philosophy and family during my philosophical investigations at the European Graduate School.
IFTA - Buenos Aires, Argentina - 19 March 2010
Practice theory shifts understandings of human agency and social order in 3 key ways: 1) It encourages understanding individuals not as rational actors or products of social forces, but as embodied agents who carry out routinized practices involving bodily movements, interpretations, desires and use of objects. 2) It conceptualizes knowledge and social structures as rooted in shared practical skills and routines, rather than mental categories, discourse or interaction. 3) In doing so, it challenges modern social theories' tendency to over-rationalize human behavior and recenters analysis on embodied, situated practices rather than the mind, communication or text.
The document discusses different perspectives on the nature and characteristics of modern man. It explores how man's nature can be modified through social interaction and education. While man possesses rational thinking, he is also susceptible to evil influences from society. There are differing views on whether man's nature is essentially good or tainted by evil. The document also examines what constitutes the highest good and how man seeks happiness through achieving what he considers good in life.
This article analyzes being as a fundamental category of philosophy. Forms of existence are considered. The views of thinkers have been critically discussed. Arislanbaeva Zoya Ernazarovna. (2020). BEING IS A FUNDAMENTAL CATEGORY OF PHILOSOPHY. International Journal on Orange Technologies, 2(12), 29-33. https://doi.org/10.31149/ijot.v2i12.1049 Pdf Url: https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJOT/article/view/1049/997 Paper Url: https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJOT/article/view/1049
The document discusses the relationship between modern science and humanity. It argues that modern science views humans as evolved animals whose thoughts and consciousness originate solely from the brain. However, this view is contradicted by evidence such as hemispherectomies not affecting personality or memory. Traditional sciences viewed humans as multi-dimensional beings with consciousness originating from higher spiritual dimensions. The document calls for science to adopt a more open-minded approach and reconsider its limiting assumptions and axioms in order to develop models that can better explain all observed phenomena.
In this original Digital Art and Philosophy class, we will become familiar with different forms of digital art and related philosophical issues. Digital art is anything related to computers and art such as using a computer to create art or an art display that is digitized. Philosophical aspects arise regarding art, identity, performance, interactivity, and the process of creation. Students may respond to the material in essay, performance, or digital art work (optional). Instructor: Melanie Swan. Syllabus: www.MelanieSwan.com/PCA
This document discusses mystical and metaphysical claims and beliefs. It provides examples of mystical statements from figures like Ken Wilber and Dr. Bronner. It then examines some issues with mystical and metaphysical claims, such as the tendency to conflate what is good with what is real, and the potential for faulty logic. The document argues that embodiment, fallibility, and cognitive biases should encourage caution and reflection regarding absolute or foundational claims about reality that cannot be scientifically proven.
This document discusses human persons and their relationship with the environment from philosophical and theoretical perspectives. It describes the anthropocentric model, which views humans as superior to nature, and the ecocentric model, which sees humans as part of the natural world. The ecocentric model includes theories of deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism. The document also discusses early philosophers like Anaximander and Pythagoras and their views on nature. Overall, it analyzes different frameworks for understanding the human-environment relationship.
1. The document provides an overview and definitions of key terms from the WingMakers philosophy, including Entity, Sovereign Integral, Genetic Mind, and OLIN Technology.
2. It describes two models of existence - the Evolution/Saviorship model and the Transformation/Mastership model - and notes humans are evolving toward a synthesis of the two.
3. The Genetic Mind is defined as the accumulated beliefs of a species imprinted by the Hierarchy to limit what is acceptable to believe, but the WingMakers aim to expand its boundaries through concepts like OLIN Technology.
This section discusses life and the human experience from a scientific perspective. It proposes that humans experience narrative structure that creates a sense of identity through the meaning-making process. The objective world and our subjective experiences interact to form narratives that are shared between people. Understanding life requires comprehending how structure, process, and pattern interact in our experiential world.
Kluckhohn argued that culture allows humans to organize and understand the world in different ways. Each culture has its own "design for living" that seems normal within that culture but may seem strange or "queer" to outsiders. He gave the example of a white teacher who misunderstood why her Navajo students were upset about a dance, because she did not understand their cultural precepts and norms. Kluckhohn's concept of "queer customs" illustrates the principle of cultural relativism, which states that cultural practices cannot be fully understood outside of their cultural context.
Kluckhohn argued that culture allows humans to organize and understand the world in different ways. Each culture has its own "design for living" that seems normal within that culture but may seem strange or "queer" to outsiders. He gave the example of a white teacher who misunderstood why her Navajo students were upset about a dance, because she did not understand their cultural precepts and norms. Kluckhohn's concept of "queer customs" illustrates the principle of cultural relativism, which states that cultural practices cannot be fully understood outside of their cultural context.
The Age of Plenty and Leisure: Essays for a New Principle of Organization in ...Luke Barnesmoore o
This document provides context for a collection of essays that examines potential futures beyond the current "Age of Scarcity and Labor" towards an "Age of Plenty and Leisure". It describes growing up between visions of high-tech utopias in Silicon Valley and low-tech nature-focused utopias among environmentalists. The essays aim to synthesize these visions by using technology to overcome scarcity while maintaining harmony with nature. Each essay will contribute individually to an emergent overall theory, like neurons forming consciousness. The goal is to allow new understandings of humanity, evolution, social order and human-nature relations to emerge from exploring these interconnected ideas.
Discoveries from the Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverseexouniversity
The document discusses discoveries that can be drawn from research into the dimensional ecology of the omniverse. Some key points:
1) The omniverse hypothesis proposes that the multiverse (parallel universes) and spiritual dimensions together form a dimensional ecology that encompasses all intelligent life, including civilizations in other universes and dimensions as well as souls and spiritual beings.
2) Estimates suggest there are over 100 billion communicating civilizations in our universe alone, and vastly more in the entire multiverse and omniverse based on calculations of parallel universes and planets.
3) Empirical evidence supports the existence of intelligent civilizations of souls and spiritual beings in spiritual dimensions beyond the multiverse. Together with
Alfred Webre - Discoveries from the Dimensional Ecology of the OmniverseExopolitics Hungary
The document discusses discoveries that can be drawn from research into the dimensional ecology of the omniverse. Some key points:
1) The omniverse hypothesis proposes that the multiverse (parallel universes) and spiritual dimensions together form a dimensional ecology that encompasses intelligent civilizations.
2) Estimates suggest there are over 100 billion communicating civilizations in our universe, and vastly more in the entire multiverse and omniverse based on calculations of parallel universes.
3) Research provides evidence for intelligent civilizations of souls and spiritual beings that reside in spiritual dimensions outside the multiverse.
4) Taken together, the data supports that we live in a populated omniverse that includes physical and spiritual dimensions
This document discusses reflexivity and culture. It defines reflexivity as the ability to consider oneself in relation to social contexts. Reflexivity occurs through internal conversations where people deliberate on their circumstances and decide on courses of action. Culture mediates between objective structures and subjective agency. The author aims to develop a theoretical framework showing how reflexivity relates to sociocultural interactions and cultural systems. Their PhD research longitudinally studies reflexivity and culture in university students to iteratively develop this theory in dialogue with empirical data.
The document discusses the changing understanding of the role of the human body in society. While technology has facilitated a more disembodied existence, recent research shows that the body plays a key role in constructing our consciousness and cognition. Movements like walking both reflect our social structures and influence how we think in complex ways. The boundary between human and machine is also increasingly blurred, as our bodies are enhanced by new technologies.
The document discusses several key concepts in permaculture, including definitions, ethics, and design principles. It defines permaculture as "consciously designed landscapes which mimic nature's patterns to yield abundance while caring for Earth and people." The three core ethics are care for the Earth, care for people, and sharing surpluses. Design principles emphasize observing and interacting with natural systems, applying permaculture to meet diverse human needs, and cooperation over competition.
LESSON 5- HUMAN PERSON IN HIS/HER ENVIRONMENT Cynalyn1
This document discusses different perspectives on human beings and their environment. It provides definitions of a human person and environment. It then summarizes some key pre-Socratic philosophers who shifted from mythical to rational explanations of the cosmos, including Anaximander and Pythagoras. It also discusses modern thinkers' views such as Immanuel Kant on beauty and morality, and Herbert Marcuse and George Herbert Mead on human power over and duties to nature. The conclusion calls for taking good care of nature to maintain balance in life.
This document provides an overview of the body through history and discusses its future. It covers topics like anatomy, medicine, identity, biotechnology, and robots. The body has been studied through dissection, illustrated in artwork, performed in sports, and maintained through medicine. New technologies may allow prosthetics, brain implants, and a virtual disembodied existence. The future of the body remains uncertain but will likely involve both biological and technological enhancements.
This document discusses various pedagogies and teaching practices, including ecojustice pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, and queer pedagogy. For ecojustice pedagogy, it describes key points of ecojustice theory, methods for disrupting anthropocentric mindsets, and teaching methods focused on exploring intersections between cultural value systems and ecology. For feminist pedagogy, it outlines classroom practices like invitational rhetoric, empowerment, building community, giving voice, incorporating diverse experiences, and challenging traditional views. For queer pedagogy, it provides examples of lessons that investigate queered relationships, knowledges, and communities.
1) The document discusses the evolution of human consciousness and theology from early stages of undifferentiated unity with nature to the development of self-consciousness, language, and the construction of religious and social worlds.
2) Key developments included the emergence of the "theological idea" as humans sought to understand their origins and place in the world, as well as the many religious traditions that arose around 4000 BC-700AD as responses to existential anxiety.
3) The evolution of human intelligence and science both informed and was informed by changing theological conceptions, with ideas like neurotheology emerging more recently to study the relationship between the brain and religious/spiritual experiences.
Malinowski scientific theory of culture itirgungorYavuz Paksoy
Bronislaw Malinowski was a Polish-born social anthropologist who conducted influential field work in the early 20th century. He is considered one of the founders of modern social anthropology due to his highly methodical approach to studying social systems through participant observation, such as his work among the Trobriand Islands people during World War I. Malinowski emphasized that anthropological study consists of both field work and analytical study of culture carried out together using scientific methods. He defined the minimum requirements of science as studying reasonable subjects, formulating generalizable laws through observation, and ensuring observations follow conceptual analysis.
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Architectural and constructions management experience since 2003 including 18 years located in UAE.
Coordinate and oversee all technical activities relating to architectural and construction projects,
including directing the design team, reviewing drafts and computer models, and approving design
changes.
Organize and typically develop, and review building plans, ensuring that a project meets all safety and
environmental standards.
Prepare feasibility studies, construction contracts, and tender documents with specifications and
tender analyses.
Consulting with clients, work on formulating equipment and labor cost estimates, ensuring a project
meets environmental, safety, structural, zoning, and aesthetic standards.
Monitoring the progress of a project to assess whether or not it is in compliance with building plans
and project deadlines.
Attention to detail, exceptional time management, and strong problem-solving and communication
skills are required for this role.
2. Biomimicry: An Emergent Discipline
• Inspired by sustainable design projects,
focusing on HCD for 15 years.
• Studying to be Biomimicry Specialists through
Biomimicry3.8
• Biomimicry: “Conscious Emulation of Nature’s
Genius”
• Taking Nature as “Model, Mentor, and
Measure”
• Hybrid emergent discipline at the edge of
Biology and Design.
3. Bullet Trains, Kingfishers and Sharkskin: Matching Life’s
Principles
• Japanese Shinkansen Train
• Designs Based on Kingfisher
• Reduce Sound, Faster, Reduced Fuel
• Sharklet: Germ Resistant Adhesive Surface used
In healthcare to reduce infections
• Sharks don’t accumulate barnacles like ships
• Texture of their skin
4. How It’s Done: Design Cycle, Isites & the “Functional Bridge”
5. Cultural categories: Ethos, Emulate, (re)connect
• (re)connect: listening to nature and rediscover one’s
relationship
• Emulate: Nature as model, mentor and measure (Sharklet
example)
• Function
• Process
• Ecosystem
• Ethos where we “Fit In” and life creates conditions for life.
A people’s “Ethos is the tone, character and quality of their
way of life, Its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the
underlying attitude towards themselves and their world that
life reflects….It contains their most comprehensive ideas of
order.”
( Geertz - Ethos, Worldview and the Analysis of Sacred
Symbols”
6. “Trumping” Nature with Insect Drones and Cyborg Fashion
• Increase in military and corporate funding for “Biomimicry.”
• Israeli Military Uses Biomimicry to Design Drone Butterfly: “The
Butterfly drone can perform tricks that have never before been
achieved by a surveillance device. It can fly indoors, thereby enabling
covert information gathering during meetings inside buildings, at train
stations and other public buildings as well as outdoors, and it is
equipped with a tiny 0.15 gram camera…DRONE BUTTERFLY TRUMPS
NATURE.”
• Intel’s “Expanding Dress.” Mirroring “Threat display’s and self
confidence of animals.” (Sensors)
• “Biomimicry Turns Nature into a Factory.” (Newsweek 2010)
• Mirrors Trend in the “Monetization of Nature” what’s known as
“Ecosystem Services. (Water, Soil) can only be preserved if we put a
price tag on it.
7. Problematizing “Ethos” as Contested Turf
• Ethos: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, respect for all life
forms, “FIT IN” on earth, survive and be a beneficial
species. Create conditions conducive to life.
• Self-social-nature orientation and behavior is
unconscious and rooted in deep historical and
sociocultural patterning
• Western’ man’s assumptions and conceptual
orientations to nature, it-It vs. I-Thou relationships.
• Separate competitive utilitarian egoic self vs. holistic
integral co-creative self
8. Intentionality in Biomimicry
“Seeing is a value laden undertaking.” (N.R. Hanson)
• Biologist Assumptions & Tacits:
• Techno-scientific paradigm ,
• Darwinism,
• Nature is without soul/purpose.
• Waking rational test/study/experimentation is best way to “Know.”
• We know more through science then through mysticism or intuitive reverie.
• Design Assumptions & Tacit:
• Design is problem solving.
• There are problems to be solved that should be solved.
• “Clients” “Stakeholders” need to be served.
• The designer has the knowledge and skill, not the people themselves.
• We should design things. (Letting things be is not a designers forte.)
• Bottom line:
• Both disciplines that underlie Biomimicry bring their own intentionality:
cultural frames/schemas/orientations and tacit to Biomimicry.
• These tacits, in turn, are rooted in modernity: enlightenment thinking, 300+
years of techno-rationality, empiricism, science as we know it today, and
Capitalism.
9. Gestell (Enframing) The Essence of Modern
Technology
Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-
upon that sets upon man, i.e., challenges him forth, to
reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-
reserve. Enframing means that way of revealing that
holds sway in the essence of modern technology and that
it is itself not technological.[4]
"the rule of enframing threatens man with the possibility
that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original
revealing and hence to experience the call of a more
primal truth.
Instrumentality: technology is an instrument to achieve
human ends, specifically those of building up or
arranging
10. Emulating Ecology: From Shallow to Deep Biomimicry
SHALLOW ECOLOGY
Conservation
Short-Term
Ego
Cost-Benefit
Human Focused
Utilitarian
Scientific/Rational
Man’s needs/desires
DEEP ECOLOGY
Preservation
Restoration
Cohabitation
Self
Symbiosis/Coexistence
Symbolic/Spiritual “Meaning”
Rational and Non-rational
Gaia’s Needs
11. Opening the Sensory Gates to the Dreams of
Anima Mundi – The Soul of the World
• All nature an expression of underlying archetypal patterns, like Plato’s
Forms (Arche).
• These archetypal patterns dwell in the imaginal realm ….a non-physical
dimension
• Bohms “Implicate” Order.
• Sheldrake’s Morphogenic Fields
• Our sensory gating channels (normative Consciousness) block these out
• (Rooted in 400 years of scientific materialism and Techno-rational
thinking.
• The plant and animal realm itself has “Mind” and the nature of that mind
is dreaming.
• Archaic word for this collective dream mind (Anima Mundi- The Soul
of the World)
• To enter this imaginal realm is to understand the “Dream of Nature” and
potentially access these archetypal patterns
12. Neo-Animism: Remembering the World Soul (Anima Mundi)
“In their visions, shamans take their consciousness down to the molecular level
and gain access to information related to DNA, which they call “animate
essences” or “sprits” This is where they see double helixes, twisted ladders and
chromosome shapes. This is how shamanic cultures have known for millennia
that the vital principle is the same for all living beings and is shaped like two
entwined serpents. DNA is the source of their astonishing botanical and
medicinal knowledge, which can be attained only in de-focalized and “Non-
rational” states of consciousness though its results are empiraclly verifiable.
(Narby – Cosmic Serpent 117).
• Shamans de-focalize their consciousness via Ahayuasca and are able to see
cosmic
• patterns
• Show up in shamanic art
• What we call DNA shamans see as an animating life force in all of
creation that gives nature it’s form and patterns…Cosmic Mother
Goddess Serpent
• My hypothesis is based on the idea that DNA in particular, and nature in
general are minded. This contravenes the founding principle of the molecular
biology that is the current orthodoxy P145)
13. Back to Bateson
• “My central thesis can now be approached in words: The patterns
that connects is a metapattern. It is a pattern of patterns. It is that
meta pattern which defines the vast generalization that, indeed, it
is, patterns which connect.” (Bateson, Mind and Nature -11)
• “There is a larger Mind of which the individual mind is only a
subsystem. The larger mind is comparable to “God.” But it is still
immanent in the total interconnected social system and planetary
ecology. "Freudian (Depth) psychology expanded the concept of
mind inwards to include the whole communication system within
the body – the autonomic, the habitual and the vast range of
unconsciouss processes. What I am saying expands mind outwards.
And both of these changed reduce the scope of the consciousness
self.” (Bateson, Steps to the Ecology of Mind 461)
14. Changing Our Way of Knowing: Epistemology
• “The Goethean Scientist seeks to participate in the objects
investigated to such a degree, that the mind makes itself one with
the object.”
• Why should it not also true in the intellectual area that through
intuitive perception of eternally created nature we may become
worthy of participating spiritually in its creative processes?”
• “Beauty is an archetypal phenomenon. While it never materializes
as such, it sheds its glow over a thousand different manifestations
of the creative spirit and is as multiform as nature
itself. “
16. Anthropology of Consciousness & Deep Biomimicry:
• Altering Sensory Gating Channels:
• Altered States/Shamanic States of
Consciousness
• Entheogens & Creativity
• Neo-Animism
• Dreams, Reverie and Visions
• The “Ecological Self”
• Transpersonal Ecology
• Integral Epistemology/Ontology
Bringing the “DEEP” to Deep Biomimicry
17. A Fork in the Road
Newton’s Sleep & The Satanic Mills Deep Biomimicry & Co-Creating the Garden
VS.
18. What Does The River Want From Us?
What a river, a world, wants of its
people may be not merely pollution-
dispersing agents but, I would suggest,
an entire culture of engagement,
whereby our sense of our own meaning
becomes suffused with the meanings
that the river, as part of a living
universe, has for itself. This is achieved
when, in synergy with the river, we no
longer think of it merely as ours but also
think of ourselves as its - when we take
our place in the river’s world, and build
our desires, our ends, on that premise.”
(Freya Matthews – Towards a Deeper
Philosophy of Biomimicry)