MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Augmented Collective Intelligence. Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community — Central Intel. [ Top of page ] What was that? How can we change ourselves in ways we cannot predict? More directly, how do we modify our nature to enable such unpredictable changes? Before giving the right answer, there is a wrong answer that can be dismissed up front— reorganization. Any reorganization by its nature is both predictable and slow. Figure 1 - Complex Adaptive Behavior The only way to meet the continuously unpredictable challenges ahead of us is to match them with continuously unpredictable changes of our own.
To describe a community that “dynamically reinvents itself by continuously learning and adapting” in response to environmental changes harks to theoretical developments in the philosophy of science that matured in the 1990s collectively known as Complexity Theory. . . . . . . It is this expertise that engenders the trust required for independent action. There is a new generation of Internet tools that enable people to self-organize around shared knowledge. Figure 2 - Metcalfe's Law. Integral Intersubjectivity. Chris Lucas "One of the primary points of difference between our common conception of science and that of religion is their claims about external reality. On the one hand, the scientific view of the world has long been dominated by a materialistic philosophy which takes matter as the fundamental reality and regards inner phenomena as mere epiphenomenon.
The religious traditions, on the other hand, generally embrace an idealistic philosophy which takes God or spirit as fundamental and regards matter as derivative. In spite of the long history of this polar opposition, however, neither science nor religion can ultimately maintain either of these extremes. "Thomas J. McFarlane, Integral Science , 1996 Introduction - transcending thought dualisms "During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs. " Socially Situated Psychology - the enacted me Quadrant Delusions - flatland isn't real. Evolving Collective Intelligence. Collective Wisdom Initiative home page. Blog of Collective Intelligence.
As I woke up, I immediately knew: the meaning of this dream will grow with me, keep unfolding; I will see clearer the guidance that I’m getting from it, over the years. At the time of that dream, in the early seventies, I was living in Hungary under communist governance, between two markers of my life's journey: • being freshly released from prison, after serving 20 months for organizing a student movement, in September 1969 • being forced into exile for continued opposition to the policies of the ruling elite, in July 1975 Back then, there was an artistic avant-garde in Hungary, mostly young people who expressed their dissidence by engagement in artistic happenings, street theater, amateur films, etc. that was considered too "edgy" by the communist censorship.
I am walking on the "grand boulevard' of Budapest, named "Lenin boulevard,'" in the afternoon rush hour, the sidewalks teeming with people streaming from the offices. Consciously Self-reflexive Global Initiatives: Renaissance zones. 22 April 2007 | Draft Renaissance zones, complex adaptive systems, and third order organizations Introduction Recursion and self-reflexivity Dematerialization and virtualizationProgressive self-reflexive learningProgressive integration of the shadow of non-self-reflexivity Insightful "rebirth" and emergent thought structuresImagination, constructivism, faith-based reality, revisionism and "spin"Form, geometry, pattern and dimensionalityCybernetics of cybernetics: complex adaptive systems?
Indicative examples of 2nd and 3rd order environmentsConclusion: emergence of "post-systemic" forms of organization of "higher order"? Introduction The case is frequently made for "new thinking" better adapted to the complex of challenges foreseen for the 21st century -- and the decades immediately to come. Recursion and self-reflexivity As an introduction to the sections that follow, Donald H. He concludes: Dematerialization and virtualization Progressive self-reflexive learning.
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