of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
How does the Destructo-Culture work? Why is it so difficult to change? PART 1.
If we do not understand the mechanics of current systems & especially its self-regulating (or self-defence) systems, we can hardly expect to change it: in fact it is possible that we will simply keep reproducing the basic patterns with some new external appearance.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
How does the Destructo-Culture work?
Why is it so difficult to change? PART 2
If we do not understand the mechanics of current systems & especially its self-regulating (or self-defence) systems, we can hardly expect to change it: in fact it is possible that we will simply keep reproducing the basic patterns with some new external appearance.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What is the Integral Model & how does it work? Why is it so significant for this time in history?
In this class we study the integral model in depth & ask why it could be one of the most important maps for directing us in the creation of more sustainable human societies.
Integral theory is an all-inclusive framework that draws on the key insights of the world’s greatest knowledge traditions.
The awareness gained from drawing on all truths and perspectives allows the Integral thinker to bring new depth, clarity and compassion to every level of human endeavor — from unlocking individual potential to finding new approaches to global-scale problems.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What are 'Models' & why are they so important for Permaculture Designers? In this class we study the basic nature of the Scientific Method & it's problems, taking as an example of our difficulties in changing paradigms a rEvolutionary model of the human mind.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What is Collective Intelligence? & can we design for increasing it? Possibly the most crucial issue of our times of change: if we don't manage to work together, we will not achieve a more rational society. (Or the other way round ...)
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
In this class we study the cycles & natural successions of groups, some growth patterns of teams & we look at the most common errors. We present some examples of designs for support structures that are very effective in practice.
¿What are our real motivations behind each design?
What influence does our world-vision have on this? How do our daily objectives & criteria fit in all this? If our vision is programmed, in great part by the "consumer dream" of our present culture ... How can we really change it?
Even though we might have good information & good intention, it's inevitable that we go dragging behind us many habits, patterns & ways of thinking that aren't very permacultural ...
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What makes some people very effective at realizing their dreams whilst other people struggle?
I this class we investigate how to increase individual intelligence, how it inter-connects with emotional intelligence, the habits of highly effective people & some ingenious tools for thinking & co-creating in powerful ways with others.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
How does the Destructo-Culture work?
Why is it so difficult to change? PART 2
If we do not understand the mechanics of current systems & especially its self-regulating (or self-defence) systems, we can hardly expect to change it: in fact it is possible that we will simply keep reproducing the basic patterns with some new external appearance.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What is the Integral Model & how does it work? Why is it so significant for this time in history?
In this class we study the integral model in depth & ask why it could be one of the most important maps for directing us in the creation of more sustainable human societies.
Integral theory is an all-inclusive framework that draws on the key insights of the world’s greatest knowledge traditions.
The awareness gained from drawing on all truths and perspectives allows the Integral thinker to bring new depth, clarity and compassion to every level of human endeavor — from unlocking individual potential to finding new approaches to global-scale problems.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What are 'Models' & why are they so important for Permaculture Designers? In this class we study the basic nature of the Scientific Method & it's problems, taking as an example of our difficulties in changing paradigms a rEvolutionary model of the human mind.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What is Collective Intelligence? & can we design for increasing it? Possibly the most crucial issue of our times of change: if we don't manage to work together, we will not achieve a more rational society. (Or the other way round ...)
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
In this class we study the cycles & natural successions of groups, some growth patterns of teams & we look at the most common errors. We present some examples of designs for support structures that are very effective in practice.
¿What are our real motivations behind each design?
What influence does our world-vision have on this? How do our daily objectives & criteria fit in all this? If our vision is programmed, in great part by the "consumer dream" of our present culture ... How can we really change it?
Even though we might have good information & good intention, it's inevitable that we go dragging behind us many habits, patterns & ways of thinking that aren't very permacultural ...
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
What makes some people very effective at realizing their dreams whilst other people struggle?
I this class we investigate how to increase individual intelligence, how it inter-connects with emotional intelligence, the habits of highly effective people & some ingenious tools for thinking & co-creating in powerful ways with others.
Of the PDC+++ Course, see www.PermaCultureScience.com
Why are we (as humans) so slow in learning about Sustainability?
Here we will delve into the issues of thinking in a systemic way, Action Learning, how to study more effectively & we look at really understanding what Sustainability is.
How do you compare the intelligence of different systems, solutions and AI configurations. Multiplying nodes and interconnects gives the wrong answer as growth is logarithmic and not linear.
Presentation given at H+ 2011 Melbourne which turned out to be much about problem merging terminology from independent silo-based framings of complexity theory.
Introduction to Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought"piero scaruffi
This is for the students who are taking the class. A general introduction to the themes of the class. Almost a summary of http://www.scaruffi.com/nature
Cognitive Models- Part 3 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" a...piero scaruffi
Cognitive Models - Part 3 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC Berkeley (2014), excerpted from a chapter of http://www.scaruffi.com/nature I keep updating these slides at www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
¿How do we evaluate our designs?
Design is a continuous process, so being able to see whether a project is moving in the right direction & accurately evaluating progress, being able & ready to re-direct resources & efforts in order to respond creatively to surrounding co-designs & changing circumstances ... is an essential part of the whole.
In this class we look at how to develop these crucial skills & explore some of the tools we use for creating flexibly with complex & ever-changing Life forces.
¿How do we ensure optimal resource use & best choice of materials, interventions & technologies?
This is something so basic that it is quite common to fall into old habits, simply copy what others have done or (even worse) use the materials 'we like', those we are familiar with, or technologies we find pleasant instead of those which do, in fact, best fit the criteria of sustainability.
In this class we look at the importance & thinking behind the hierarchy of resources & the scale of interventions, two tools amongst various which we use to ground our designs.
Normally we think of producing food or biomass with terraculture (growing in earth), but aquaculture (growing in water) can be many times more productive for the same surface area. Therefore knowing how Aquaculture works is important if we want to create super-productive systems.
In this class we explore the basic principles & various good examples of very productive aquaculture (& multifunctional) in different parts of the world.
Also we explore how we can start very small in order to add mini-aquaculture-systems which are very easy to install & maintain, in our surroundings.
Observation is fundamental to any design & goes far beyond looking at something carefully.
We involve all of our communication channels in a systemic & sistematic way, in good prolonged observation.
In this class we study in depth the clients interview & other observation techniques & tools.
What Energy Sources are available & how do they work?
Civilizations are based on the fuels they use to power themselves. The fuel determines the technologies used, and the technologies determine the lifestyles, economies, and eventually the entire culture. So the transition to sustainable fuels is critical if we wish to design sustainable cultures.
This class explores which fuels can be considered 'renewable' & under which circumstances.
Also we look into the various transformer technologies which are needed to make this energy available to us, how they are most effectively used and we explore what a truly 'solar-powered civilization' might look like.
Of the PDC+++ Course, see www.PermaCultureScience.com
Why are we (as humans) so slow in learning about Sustainability?
Here we will delve into the issues of thinking in a systemic way, Action Learning, how to study more effectively & we look at really understanding what Sustainability is.
How do you compare the intelligence of different systems, solutions and AI configurations. Multiplying nodes and interconnects gives the wrong answer as growth is logarithmic and not linear.
Presentation given at H+ 2011 Melbourne which turned out to be much about problem merging terminology from independent silo-based framings of complexity theory.
Introduction to Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought"piero scaruffi
This is for the students who are taking the class. A general introduction to the themes of the class. Almost a summary of http://www.scaruffi.com/nature
Cognitive Models- Part 3 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" a...piero scaruffi
Cognitive Models - Part 3 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC Berkeley (2014), excerpted from a chapter of http://www.scaruffi.com/nature I keep updating these slides at www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
¿How do we evaluate our designs?
Design is a continuous process, so being able to see whether a project is moving in the right direction & accurately evaluating progress, being able & ready to re-direct resources & efforts in order to respond creatively to surrounding co-designs & changing circumstances ... is an essential part of the whole.
In this class we look at how to develop these crucial skills & explore some of the tools we use for creating flexibly with complex & ever-changing Life forces.
¿How do we ensure optimal resource use & best choice of materials, interventions & technologies?
This is something so basic that it is quite common to fall into old habits, simply copy what others have done or (even worse) use the materials 'we like', those we are familiar with, or technologies we find pleasant instead of those which do, in fact, best fit the criteria of sustainability.
In this class we look at the importance & thinking behind the hierarchy of resources & the scale of interventions, two tools amongst various which we use to ground our designs.
Normally we think of producing food or biomass with terraculture (growing in earth), but aquaculture (growing in water) can be many times more productive for the same surface area. Therefore knowing how Aquaculture works is important if we want to create super-productive systems.
In this class we explore the basic principles & various good examples of very productive aquaculture (& multifunctional) in different parts of the world.
Also we explore how we can start very small in order to add mini-aquaculture-systems which are very easy to install & maintain, in our surroundings.
Observation is fundamental to any design & goes far beyond looking at something carefully.
We involve all of our communication channels in a systemic & sistematic way, in good prolonged observation.
In this class we study in depth the clients interview & other observation techniques & tools.
What Energy Sources are available & how do they work?
Civilizations are based on the fuels they use to power themselves. The fuel determines the technologies used, and the technologies determine the lifestyles, economies, and eventually the entire culture. So the transition to sustainable fuels is critical if we wish to design sustainable cultures.
This class explores which fuels can be considered 'renewable' & under which circumstances.
Also we look into the various transformer technologies which are needed to make this energy available to us, how they are most effectively used and we explore what a truly 'solar-powered civilization' might look like.
Water is another vital element & normally very badly managed in our society, due to our usual ignorance of its importance, characteristics & inter-relationships with other elements.
In this class we learn of harvesting systems for this vital substance, how to re-connect ourselves with the water cycle, the strategies of "slow it, spread it, sink it"
& we see various examples where a good management of water has totally changed the system. Small re-designs can improve the whole environment a great deal, & this is especially true with water re-designs.
What kind of maps and graphic representation do we have available to design with?
Although “the map is not the territory” the more accurate and appropriate are the maps we use, the easier it is for us to know where we are at any particular time, & where do we wish to go.
So learning how to make and use maps + various kinds of graphical representation of information ... is a key skill for permaculture designers.
What design structures do we have available to us and how do we use them?
There are several design structures available to use. They consist of a sequence of steps that help the designer keep to a systematic approach.
Beyond these there are design frameworks that help us place our designs in a wider context.
The most comprehensive framework is our world-view, which greatly influences which designs we do, why & how. In this class we will study the different kinds of structures we have at our disposal.
Why Dana Meadows as the mother of Integral Permaculture?
Dana Meadows was a pioneering environmental scientist, a great system thinker & educator, a leading voice in the environmental movement. She is best known for being the lead author of Limits to Growth, a milestone which alerted the world to the unsustainable course the western model of development was taking, back in 1972. The book, which reported on a study of long-term global trends in population, economics, and the environment, sold millions of copies and was translated into 28 languages & inspired the birth of permaculture, amongst its many of other important influences. A long-time organic farmer, professor & journalist, Meadows had a unique insight, passion & ability for translating the complexities of systems dynamics into practical action-points, some of this we will explore during this class.
of the PDC+++ in Integral Permaculture
see www.PermaCultureScience.com
Which Communities work & what do they do differently from those that don't work?
We look at what are EcoVillages, what other types of communities exist & we explore a little the design of communities, criteria & patterns for success
In this class we explore social capital as the umbrella term we use to value a complex set of inner quadrant qualities such as creativity, innovation, social skills, connectivity, emotional intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, cultural awareness, etc., all of which have a critical part to play in re-designing any technology & therefore society as a whole. "Sustainable Development" has been criticized as a term for being inherently contradictory, but when all quadrants are taken into account, we can see that a major growth in the interior quadrants (personal development & culture) will probably be key in achieving any significant reduction in physical consumption or material growth, so 'sustainable development' is far from contradictory as a term. So how do we design for increasing and improving social capital?
Howard T. Odum studied in great detail the energy flows & interactions in complex life systems, creating a simple pattern-language that serves as a powerful model for understanding how ecosystems work, in useful detail.
This model includes visible as well as invisible components of a system, & is so holistic that human economy as well as minerals & weather processes can be accounted for.
He also proposed a new & provocative law of thermodynamics that includes Life.
In this class we will explore the basics of this work and explore how it is an essential base of Integral Permaculture.
Cybernetic/P2P/Gift Economy, Libertarian (Anarchist) Communism, 2nd Tier Thinking (Spiral Dynamics)
It appears from our writings and from our history the first that occurred was debt. There are couples of types of debt and I want to go into this because it has significance for how powerful a concept it is for us.
The first thing is, there was a debt in many religions and many languages. Debt is the same word as sin.
And so, there was a primordial debt, a debt to the universe, a debt to God, a debt to existence.
And in many cultures and many religions, it was expected that you bring sacrifices, whether that was an animal sacrifice, you put time, you prayed, you did something else to try to return your debt to the universe. But ultimately it was understood that the only way you could return the debt to the universe for the resources you were using that made up your body and your existence was through dying.
What's also interesting is because debt as culture evolved and we had civilizations and organization we find that debt and this primordial debt is associated with rulers and governments and they use this same representation saying they were close to God, they were close to and represent society, the community, in order to have contributions of taxes, fees, and so forth.
So, we actually see that debt came first. People loaned things to each other and they didn't worry about getting payback right away, they just wrote it down.
And they said Oh I know you're good for it, next week, next month or whatever. Then we had barter, barter came in because sometimes what you owed was too great. Or because indeed you did want to trade some goods and services. Money came later.
―Lawrence Bishop
We’re going from a closed system to an open system in terms of General Systems Theory. In a closed system, entropy increases; but in an open system, entropy doesn’t necessarily increase. In a closed system, the Malthusian laws apply: you have to struggle for survival – there’s not enough to go around and the predatory types will always get most of the food, shelter and luxuries. In an open system, all of that changes…
An open system is of much more advantage to everybody than a closed system. In a closed system, the best you can do is equalize the misery… On the other hand, an open system creates the possibility of abundance for all…
I want to see everybody rich and in an open system that’s possible…
There would be more diversity. I think there would be cultures created unlike anything we’ve ever had in the primitive conditions of the closed system, the Malthusian crunch on this planet.
―Robert Anton Wilson
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
―Arthur C. Clarke
The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.
―Bucky Fuller
Capitalism and socialism are survival economics.
―UPwingers
Every complex mission will land on the shores of a human cultural context. Some models can help to orientate that context and increase the chances of success. Using Spiral Dynamics model to understand culture, and Nonaka’s SECI model for knowledge creation, help in that general orientation.
Software update for human brain, at a large scale2co
If we can download "Kung Fu Master skills", would we do the same for "Greatest Thinker skills?" Could we software-update ourselves to be a better person? How, from technological and engineering point of view? What would happen if millions did download such skills and became Greatest Thinkers?
Ecology & Environment. Kenneth E Boulding.
What can we know and teach about social systems?
Recently I came upon the reassuring news that the year
1910 was a crucial one in human history because this was
the year when the medical profession began to do more
good than harm. I wonder whether the teaching profession has reached this watershed yet.
Talk explains how the social sciences emerged as a replacement for Christianity, and are built on moral foundations in dramatic conflict with Islamic values. We go on to explain how we can develop alternative teaching methodologies within the Islamic world. Agent Based Modeling provides a general purpose tool which we can use to redo standard Economic theory models, and create alternatives.
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We celebrate International PermaCulture Day
2014, with a bilingual talk (in English & Spanish)
that takes an integral perspective on this year's topic:
Food Freedom. See www.bit.ly/IPD2014 for program, links & video
En esta clase exploraremos el "capital social" como el concepto que utilizamos para valorar un conjunto complejo de cualidades internas como creatividad, innovación, habilidades sociales, conectividad, inteligencia emocional, conocimiento, sabiduria, conciencia, etc...todas con un papel importante en el re-diseño de cualquier tecnología y por tanto de la sociedad. Se ha criticado mucho el termino "Desarrollo sostenible" por ser inherentemente contradictorio, pero si tenemos en cuenta todos los cuadrantes, podemos ver que el crecimiento en los cuadrantes interiores (desarrollo personal y cultural) es clave para poder reducir el crecimiento material, así que "Desarrollo Sostenible" puede no ser algo contradictorio en absoluto. ¿Cómo diseñamos para incrementar y mejorar el capital social?
¿Por qué son tan importantes los árboles? Si cada uno de nosotrs planta 10,000 árboles podemos prevenir las catástrofes climáticas, regenerar los suelos predidos, aumentar la biodiversidad y preservar ecosistemas y ciclos vitales. Los árboles son los seres vivos más grandes y antiguos de la Tierra. Pero alrededor del 75% de los bosques antiguos se ha desvanecido debido a la acción humana. Así que es urgente que conozcamos y entendamos a los árboles, cómo plantarlos, cómo cuidarlos, cómo devolverles a su lugar de máxima importancia en la naturaleza.
En esta clase aprenderemos de biología de los árboles y funciones de los árboles, además de su influencia en nuestra cultura.
Cuando la humanidad acababa de descubrir la agricultura, los bosques cubrían alrededor del 50% de la superficie terrestre del Planeta Tierra. Ahora apenas cubren un 30%, y cada vez menos. Ahora mismo esta es la reparación física del entorno más urgente con la que tenemos que comprometernos, ya que los bosques son tan vitales para cada aspecto de la vida en la Tierra, protegiendo los ciclos vitales del aire, el agua y la tierra, estabilizando el clima local y global, creando suelos y hábitats para un número enorme de especies, manteniendo economías enteras y nuestra salud.
Los bosques juegan un papel clave en muchos niveles al ser tan básicos e incluso primordiales para los humanos. En esta clase conocemos íntimamente los Bosques, su composición, cómo funcionan y especialmente aprendemos a diseñar Bosques Comestibles, nuestro hábitat humano futuro, si vamos a sobrevivir y prosperar como humanos.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
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25. Was part of a NASA investigation team, with mission to find out if there was life on Mars Lovelock asked himself: How can we see if there is life on other planets without going there?
26. Focused at first on the atmosphere of the Earth Dynamic equilibrium of gases in constant reaction with each other Atmospheres where CO2 dominates: all reactions that could have happened have happened - resulting in an inert atmosphere
27. We have such a reactive atmosphere yet it has remained remarkably stable during millions of years Something has to be regulating this equilibrium. But WHAT?
28. The atmosphere & the most superficial part of the Earth behave as a coherent whole where life, its characteristic component, is in charge of self-regulating the conditions it requires to thrive
57. a Social Model (RC) owning class working class sexism classism racism adultism/ageism isolated BY OPRESSIONS (which are combinations of PATTERNS) ISOLATION is the pattern we perceive but INSIDE each group there is also tension
58. Internalized Oppression External Oppression (institutions & people who limit & batter us from outside) (patterns that limit & batter us from the inside) LOTS OF PRESSURE!! eg. adultism sexism racism classism ... > we attempt to ‘liberate’ it by acting as oppressors whenever the opportunity presents itself (= PERPETUATES the pattern) > or we anesthetize ourselves (drugs of any kind: it's their function = PERPETUATES the pattern)
59. CONSUME things food Ideas time news experiences ... EXPLOITATION resources people ISOLATION AVARICE “ dramatize” a pattern (what they did to us ..) can NOT result in discharge REPRESSION RUSH PASSIVITY LOTS OF PRESSURE!! > we attempt to ‘liberate’ it by acting as oppressors whenever the opportunity presents itself > or we anesthetize ourselves (drugs of any kind: it's their function)
60. Our Society ISOLATION “ ME”, “My Project”, “My Idea", Individualism, Protagonism, Fragmentation, ... fear of intimacy, lots of 'meditation', etc. COMFORT SEEKING SUBSTANCE - FORM
66. IF THE WORLD IS GOING TO CHANGE it will not be changed by minds with new programmes but by new minds WITH NO PROGRAMMES Daniel Quinn
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Editor's Notes
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1) para poderlos CAMBIAR si no funcionan 2) para SER más consciente 3) para COMUNICAR más efectivamente 4) para acelerar la sucesión natural de la EVOLUCIÓN humana
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puedes apreciar un modelo mucho mejor si has tenido que crear el tuyo ... es MUY difícil!!! (pero somos genios :)
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precisely what mechanisms were behind the regulation. It was when he began to collaborate with the American microbiologist Lynn Margulis that the full theory began to take shape. Margulis was studying the processes by which living organisms produce and remove gases from the atmosphere. In particular she was examining the role of microbes which live in the Earth's soil. Working together, they managed to uncover a number of feedback loops which could act as regulatory influences. An example is the carbon dioxide cycle. Volcanoes constantly produce massive quantities of carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, it tends to warm the planet. If left unchecked, it would make the Earth too warm to support life. While plants and animals take in and expel carbon dioxide through life processes such as photosynthesis, respiration and decay, these processes remain in balance and don't affect the net amount of the gas. Therefore there must be another mechanism. One process by which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere is rock weathering, where rainwater and carbon dioxide combine with rocks to form carbonates. Lovelock, Margulis and others discovered that the process is greatly accelerated by the presence of soil bacteria. The carbonates are washed away into the ocean, where microscopic algae use them to make tiny shells. When the algae die, their shells sink to the bottom of the ocean, forming limestone sediments. Limestone is so heavy that it gradually sinks underneath the Earth's mantle, where it melts. Eventually some of the carbon dioxide contained in the limestone will be fed back into the atmosphere through another volcano. Since the soil bacteria are more active in high temperatures, the removal of carbon dioxide is accelerated when the planet is hot. This has the effect of cooling the planet. Therefore the whole massive cycle forms a feedback loop. Lovelock and Margulis identified a number of other feedback loops which operate in a similar way. An interesting feature of these loops is that, like the carbon dioxide cycle, they often combine living and non-living components. The importance of biological processes on the planet was pointed out by the Russian scientist Vernadsky, who as early as 1929 said: "Life appears as a great, permanent and continuous infringer on the chemical 'dead-hardness' of our planet's surface ... Life therefore is not an external and accidental development on the terrestrial surface. Rather, it is intimately related to the constitution of the Earth's crust, forms part of its mechanism, and performs in this mechanism functions of paramount importance, without which it would not be able to exist." (1929) Vernadsky showed, for example, that living organisms are the primary transformer of solar energy to chemical energy, and stressed the importance of biotransport systems. An example of a biotransport system is birds which feed on marine life, hence transferring an enormous amount of matter from the oceans back to the land. In order to understand how the planet works, one has to take into account the effect of life - exactly what Lovelock and Margulis say.
The Gaia Theory posits that the organic and inorganic components of Planet Earth have evolved together as a single living, self-regulating system. It suggests that this living system has automatically controlled global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, and other factors, that maintains its own habitability. In a phrase, “life maintains conditions suitable for its own survival.” In this respect, the living system of Earth can be thought of analogous to the workings of any individual organism that regulates body temperature, blood salinity, etc. So, for instance, even though the luminosity of the sun – the Earth’s heat source – has increased by about 30 percent since life began almost four billion years ago, the living system has reacted as a whole to maintain temperatures at levels suitable for life.
he Gaia theory was developed in the late 1960’s by Dr. James Lovelock, a British Scientist and inventor, shortly after his work with NASA in determining that there was probably no life on Mars. His research led to profound new insights about life on Earth. The theory gained an early supporter in Lynn Margulis, a microbiologist at the University of Massachusetts. In the past 15-20 years, many of the mechanisms by which Earth self-regulates have been identified. As one example, it has been shown that cloud formation over the open ocean is almost entirely a function of the metabolism of oceanic algae that emit a large sulfur molecule (as a waste gas) that becomes the condensation nuclei for raindrops. Previously, it was thought that cloud formation over the ocean was a purely chemical/physical phenomenon. The cloud formation not only helps regulate Earth’s temperature, it is an important mechanism by which sulfur is returned to terrestrial ecosystems.
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Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes vMemes - valores
WIE: The Spiral Dynamics model charts our evolutionary development beginning 100,000 years ago with the appearance of the first "level of existence," the BEIGE meme. What defines this first stage of human development? DB: BEIGE is a virtually automatic state of existence , driven by the imperative physiological needs that trigger the very basic survival equipment with which we are born. In its original form, starting 100,000 years ago, the BEIGE level of existence was the first step that made us human. It is humans simply struggling to survive in environments where there are other animals. Yet we are more sophisticated and seem to have more conceptual skills for bonding into protective clans to preserve what we have and fend off predators. The father in the survival clan eats first because if the strongest dies, the family has no hope. So, the key to BEIGE is survival using instinctive intelligences, with a more heightened sensory system with which we can see better, hear better—we can sense things with the hair standing on the back of our neck. Simply staying alive is more highly valued than anything else. WIE: Are there any remaining examples of BEIGE in the world today? DB: The only real BEIGE that exists today in its pristine condition is hidden away in Indonesia and parts of Africa. We've studied bushmen for some time, and it's quite clear that they have an uncanny ability to recall where the water is buried, and the ostrich eggs, and can sense weather changes. So we don't equate primitive with being primitive and "dumb" because there are possibly sixteen different senses, including a remote viewing capacity, that are activated at this level. But today, most of these senses have atrophied and have been overwhelmed by our more complex conceptual systems. WIE: Do Life Conditions sometimes force people to exist at the BEIGE level, even though they may not actually be primitive or represent the "pristine" form of this meme? DB: Oh, one can find pieces of BEIGE in street people who are basically hunter-gatherers, who get what they eat where they find it. You can certainly see it in the horrible conditions of extreme poverty in Somalia or Ethiopia, where it's a hand-to-mouth existence. And also, it's evident in newborn infants, who eat when they're hungry. And some people, when exposed to a catastrophe, may regress to BEIGE. Higher-order priorities suddenly vanish in the midst of personal tragedy, extreme suffering, or deprivation. There's a kind of emptiness, which is certainly fear-driven, because boundaries and expectations have suddenly dissolved and one is on one's own footing, living by one's own wiles. It's that feeling that we have when we have to do something entirely different, something that we've never done before and are not sure that we even can do. I think that after September 11, we saw some people temporarily go into BEIGE because the crisis put them in a very different psychological condition.
PURPLE WIE: The second level up the spiral is PURPLE. What evolutionary developments characterize the shift from the primitive existence of BEIGE to this next level of existence, the PURPLE meme? DB: PURPLE is animistic, tribalistic, and mystical. In this world of PURPLE, we tend to have the first evidence of human bonding—the sense of a kindred spirit, that "I'm someone because I belong to a certain clan or certain tribe." During the Ice Age, the world became overpopulated. There were more humans per acre than there had ever been before. We had clans in the BEIGE system beginning to bump into other clans, with a sense of competition for niches starting to appear. Suddenly a clan, which is loosely structured, solidifies into a tribe of, say, four to five hundred people, so that the previous clan can now survive in the midst of competition with other clans. So one of the Life Conditions changes that led to the shift from BEIGE to PURPLE had to do with territoriality and access to resources. Now, at the same time, a mutation occurred to awaken in the brain the first real ability to assign cause and effect. This was the first sense of the metaphysical. In the BEIGE mind, events seem to be scattered, each one unto itself, without much predictability. But, for example, in Africa, if the moon is full and the cow dies, the PURPLE mind connects the two events, one causing the other. So the awakening of the metaphysical system, together with the capacity to work more firmly in a team arrangement, occurred in the transition from the Dawn People (BEIGE) to the Mystical People (PURPLE), precipitated by the changing Life Conditions that occurred during the Ice Age, about fifty thousand years ago. WIE: It seems that the emergence of the capacity for bonding and working together, would literally improve one's chances for survival. DB: You're absolutely right. Literally. And because these stages of existence, or meme levels, represent bio-psycho-social systems, they indicate the evolutionary emergence of biological and physical capacities and abilities. For example, we know that the level of the brain chemical oxytocin, which has various health-giving benefits, is higher when humans eat in a group. And so eating together, breaking bread together, feasts of various kinds, all raise the oxytocin level in the brain and improve survival. Another thing that developed at this time was whatever it is in the brain that chemically enables the person to hear inner voices, the voices of spirits. The PURPLE meme is heavily laden with such so-called right brain tendencies as heightened intuition, emotional attachments to places and things, and a mystical sense of cause and effect. I have a well-developed PURPLE sense myself, having spent so much time with the Zulus in sacred places.
RED WIE: With its tribes and rituals, PURPLE seems to have been quite a leap from the primitive existence of BEIGE. How did the next meme level of the spiral—RED—arise out of PURPLE, and what are its defining characteristics? DB: In the RED zone, we have the first raw, egocentric self. I am somebody. Beginning approximately ten thousand years ago, what began to cause the change in Life Conditions that led to RED were not failures, but rather successes. In PURPLE we had become very successful. We had found food, we had stabilized our lifestyle, we had conquered what we thought were the dragons in our life. Everything was smooth, boring. So many of the youth became discontented. They saw that there was something about their essence that, rather than being protected, was being contained, limited. Then RED strides forth. Now we have an elite individual beginning to move away from the bonding element in PURPLE, which had become overplayed. So what PURPLE produced, through its success, was the need for strong individuals who ascend to power, who dominate, for example, in a military environment where we don't have the time to vote whether or not to "take yon hill." What begins to spring free is the assertion of raw self—the renegade, the heretic, the barbarian, the go-it-alone, the power-self, the hedonist. WIE: It's more difficult to see the positive attributes of the RED meme. PURPLE definitely seems more appealing to me, with its emphasis on human bonding and the sense of the metaphysical. DB: There are both positive and negative expressions to all the memes, including RED. In RED, we see high crime rates, we see all kinds of rage and rebellion, but we may also see wonderful spurts of creativity, heroic acts, and the ability to break from tradition and chart a whole new pathway. And RED rebellion and impulsiveness could only happen because PURPLE, through bonding, stabilized things. And also, RED was a rebellion against the rituals and sacrifices forced on the youth by the PURPLE system, in painful rites of passage, for example. So that's why RED follows PURPLE, and why PURPLE set the stage for RED. This is very important—I want you to see the interconnection. Memes are not free-floating entities. RED is not better than PURPLE. It's different. So you have to ask, first and foremost, what are the Life Conditions? If the Life Conditions require you to be strong and self-assertive, or to fight your way out of a horrible situation, then the RED meme is the way to be. RED is not an aberration, but a normal part of the human meme repertoire. This perspective is fundamental to Spiral Dynamics: you accept that the memes do not represent a hierarchy of "better," but rather that each can be expressed in a positive and negative way, and that the whole spiral with its assortment of meme codes is inside the person and may be called upon in response to the demands of their changing Life Conditions.
BLUE WIE: And now to the fourth meme level of the spiral. Could you begin by speaking about the Life Conditions problems produced by RED individualism and egocentrism, which ultimately required a shift up to the next level, BLUE? DB: In BLUE there is a search for a transcendent purpose, a recognition of the importance of order and meaning, a universe controlled by a single higher power. Society could no longer function with the constant presence of RED, with its war-like, gang-like, warlord-like entities, so we have to grow up, to solve the problems created by RED success. Here for the first time is the capacity to feel guilt (RED feels shame, but not guilt). In the BLUE system, people gladly accept authoritarianism and self-sacrifice for the common good. When BLUE first develops, it has to handle RED. And that's why in the Old Testament you have such punitive measures as "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." If there is a heavy RED component, then you have, in religious systems and legal systems, the very heavy punitive form of BLUE. It's designed to address the threat of RED, so as long as the RED threat is there, the punitive expression of BLUE will continue to exist. But as BLUE moves away from having to contain the violence in RED, it goes on its life cycle toward its own healthier version, taking the form of more institutionalized systems, in which righteousness, discipline, accountability, stability, perseverance, and order prevail. What also seems to occur in the brain is a heightened capacity for abstraction, and that abstraction ability attaches itself to a cause, a cause célèbre , an "ism"—for example, the Buddhist's Eightfold Path, or the idea of Islam, which are both abstractions. So once again, we're into a metaphysical zone, but this time the PURPLE spirits are organized into "a mighty fortress is our God ..." And thus we have the birth of monotheism and Zoroastrianism and all the "isms" that suddenly started emerging about five thousand years ago. And while they had different content, the mode of thinking for all of them was identical. WIE: I had never considered the world's religions from that point of view, that despite differences in "content," they are expressions of the same evolutionary stage of development. DB: Yes, because these meme codes are like a blueprint, or like magnets. The meme code we designate "BLUE" finds a transcendent purpose. What is that transcendent purpose? It could be Buddhism, or Judaism, or Islam. These religious expressions are what that meme code has attached to as a way to express itself. Therefore we can have holy wars between "isms," both of which are in the BLUE code. Because there's a difference between the surface-level manifestations of a core value system, or meme, and the core system, or meme code, itself.
ORANGE WIE: How does institutional, disciplined, absolutist BLUE give rise to the ORANGE meme, the fifth level of the spiral model? DB: ORANGE is about advancement, improvement, and progress. Once again, you play out the BLUE theme to its ultimate. You make it very, very successful. And then what happens? The individual gets restless. "But I'm an individual. I want to assert my personal autonomy." "No," BLUE says. "You must stay in line and conform to the dictates of the system. Don't you want to go to heaven? Don't you want to have a retirement?" And ORANGE says, "Yes, but I think I can produce a heaven on earth. I think I can increase the size of the cake." Thus we had the great Enlightenment, which is simply the individual spirit breaking free from what had become very restrictive forces. Now the BLUE system, when it first appeared, was relevant, was necessary. But ORANGE individualization began to appear about three hundred years ago, when the sacred leaders became too punitive and also became discredited because they could not protect people from the plagues. And thus we had the birth, thank goodness, of the scientific method. We also had a growing belief in optimism, in changeability—a belief that we can indeed shape our future, that we are the stewards of the universe and therefore have dominion over it. We can carve out a good life for ourselves. And again, some fascinating things happened in the European brain that seemed to occur for the first time in the 1700s—the mathematical sense, the sense of cadence, the linear sense that made possible written music, that made possible quantification and measurement. These classical left brain capacities uniquely developed in the Western brain in the ORANGE system. That entire wonderful movement is begrudgingly classified as "Western," but that's really what it is. WIE: It's refreshing to hear you speak about ORANGE in these terms, because I was reflecting on the many negative effects of this particular meme, for example, the ecological devastation that ORANGE industrialization has given rise to. DB: That is why we have to look at three things: the Life Conditions, the meme code itself, and the way that meme code is being expressed in a certain context. If we don't like capitalism or consumerism, which are expressions of the ORANGE meme code, it's not the same thing as the meme code itself, which is the capacity to engineer things, to make things better. The creativity and ability to engineer that are inherent in that same ORANGE meme code can now be used to clean up the environment. That's why we can't afford to bash any of these memetic systems. We can challenge a manifestation of it, but without the ORANGE thinking system, we couldn't solve medical problems, we couldn't figure out how to clean up the water or the air, and we would sink back to the myth and mysticism of BLUE. I don't think anybody wants that to happen.
GREEN WIE: The GREEN meme is the final level of the spiral's First Tier. Can you speak about the GREEN meme, how it emerged out of ORANGE and the role it plays in human emergence up the spiral? DB: At its peak, GREEN is communitarian, egalitarian, and consensual. Without ORANGE we wouldn't have GREEN, because in ORANGE the inner being was bypassed and ignored. Our science left us numb, without heart and soul, and with only the outer manifestations of success. The "good life" was measured only in materialistic terms. We discover that we have become alienated from ourselves, as well as from others. So GREEN, this fairly recent memetic code, began emerging about 150 years ago, out of the Ages of Industry, Technology, Affluence, and Enlightenment, to declare that in all of these undertakings, the basic human being has been neglected. The focus shifts from personal achievement to group- and community-oriented goals and objectives—for GREEN, we are all one human family. GREEN begins by making peace with ourselves and then expands to looking at the dissonance and conflicts in society and wanting to make peace there, too, addressing the economic gaps and inequities created by ORANGE, and also by BLUE and by RED, to bring peace and brotherhood so we can all share equally. Gender roles are derigidified, glass ceilings opened, affirmative action plans are implemented, and social class distinctions blurred. Spirituality returns as a nondenominational, nonsectarian "unity." WIE: And since GREEN is the final meme level of First Tier, it must be preparing us to make the transition up to the "Being" levels of the spiral's Second Tier. DB: Yes, because what GREEN has accomplished, in a very positive sense, is the cleansing of the spiral, declaring an equality of all the different experiences of life. It weakens the control of BLUE and ORANGE, allowing the PURPLE and RED indigenous people to have their place in the sun and their time on CNN. It works, you see, to find equality and sameness and sensitivity. And it is doing so for a very good purpose: because without GREEN, we could not go to YELLOW and Second Tier.
The Leap to Second Tier WIE: Your colleague, the late Clare Graves, had a prophetic sense of the evolutionary transition we would be called to make. Thirty years ago he said, "Humans must prepare for a momentous leap.... It is not merely a transition to a new level of existence but the start of a new 'movement' in the symphony of human history." Can you speak about the transformation that is required for us to survive our current Life Conditions, and evolve to Second Tier? DB: In the late 1970s, Graves began to find, in his research and through observations, thinking patterns that he could not explain. He began to observe, in certain people he was testing, an extraordinary quality and complexity in decision-making and other aspects of cognition. They seemed to have different kinds of minds. They could find more solutions more quickly. They seemed not to be driven by status. There was the dropping away of fear, which is perhaps the most significant marker. Fear seemed to have vanished. Now caution didn't, but fear did. Tribal safety (PURPLE), raw power (RED), salvation for all eternity (BLUE), individual success (ORANGE), and the need to be accepted (GREEN) all diminished in importance. Instead there was a growing curiosity about just being alive in the expansive universe.
WIE: The dropping away of fear would certainly signify an enormous shift in human consciousness and in the motivations that shape our human existence. Did Clare Graves find any other indications of this approaching evolutionary transition? DB: I believe he had early evidence of minds that were becoming aware of the problems we are facing today, long before these problems became visible to the rest of us. He used to tell me that he felt that probably one in ten thousand brains is produced with different biological features and frequencies. And those individuals don't conform to the norms of society because their minds are already set for a different paradigm. He finally came to the conclusion that something unique was happening here that didn't appear to be just the next step up from the GREEN level. It seemed to be a new category. Life Conditions that would require this new thinking complexity that he observed three decades ago have finally appeared on the scene. But his observations were way before the microchip, before the end of the Cold War, and before the discovery of DNA and molecular biology. So Graves sensed that a change of a profound nature was occurring, one that was beyond the sum total of the first six memetic systems combined. Now that, of course, was a theory. But as we look at the extraordinary complexity we are facing, this theory seems to gain more and more credibility. Because now we can see the planet from the moon, and now we have these wonderful scanning devices and satellites that can even penetrate beneath surfaces, and for the first time we can begin to understand the planet itself as a total ecosystem in a way that was never possible before. Together with that, the world in which we now live is struggling with the appearance of all of the memetic cultural expressions at once—ethnic tribes, egocentric warlords, both dangerous and redemptive "isms," a whole plateful of opportunists and materialists-in-the making, and a host of postmodern egalitarian political, religious, and professional structures—oh my, it makes a grown man want to weep. What do we do?
WIE: How will the leap to Second Tier make it possible for us to address our unprecedented challenges? DB: At this point, all of the old memetic systems have been weighed in the balance and have been found wanting. While the full display of the YELLOW meme, the first level of Second Tier, is years in the future, keep in mind that the ultimate texture and capacity within this next memetic level must match and/or exceed the complexity of the Life Conditions that it confronts. It must sense the big picture and the interconnection of everything. So YELLOW will have an enhanced vertical perspective with the ability to transcend and include and value what came before, and also to anticipate what will be next. DB: I believe that the eighth meme code—TURQUOISE— will rise in conjunction with the seventh, YELLOW. You could think of YELLOW as "left brain with feelings" and TURQUOISE as "right brain with data." TURQUOISE will focus on the larger waves and energy flows and will work on behalf of the Life Force itself, in its many manifestations in life-forms on the planet. The Second Tier thought structures will combine elements of YELLOW and TURQUOISE in searching for the quality and depth of thinking that can deal with complex problems. And with this is the recognition that the whole spiral itself is spiritual and that we're on this upward ladder of human emergence. That's spirituality. But since memes are not types of people but forms of adaptive intelligences in people, YELLOW and TURQUOISE rarely exist in full measure in any person alive at this time. Different people possess different fragments, or components, or even versions, and this makes the formation of what I would call "creative brain syndicates" with insightful interactions and dialogues even more important. So it ought to engender some serious talk for the first time, and not just in isolated conferences where everyone does their own thing. It's going to require some deep dialogue. And whether or not, once again, humans can rise to the occasion is the existential question of the age.
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patrones inclusos en el sexismo, racismo, etc. pero por mayoría son MECANISMOS para evitar el desahogo (que sería la solución)
Self-similar across scales
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
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