https://videopress.com/v/jCDEzF3U?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Music by John Baptiste
Author: bonnittaroy
Principles of a Generative Meta-Design
Principles of a Genereative Meta-Design Auspicious – focuses on the affirmative, optimistic, serendipitous Indescribable – seeks to make the unthinkable possible Self-steering – adapts by re-inventing its own working language Fractal – making complex systems navigable through pattern-familiarity Holistic – delivers complex, comprehensive and self-aware outcomes Synergistic – cultivates … Continue reading Principles of a Generative Meta-Design
An Evolutionary Imperative
Early on in his career, the ecologist and systems thinker, C.S. Holling discovered that complex adaptive systems did not tend toward equilibria, but toward maximizing diversity over deeper evolutionary time. In early 2000, he and L. Gunderson identified the dynamic cycle that expressed the patterns we see in complex ecologies, as well as the transitioning … Continue reading An Evolutionary Imperative
A Modest Development
In 1959 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. According to wikipedia He sketched branching descent, then a genealogical branching of a single evolutionary tree, in which "It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another", discarding Lamarck's independent lineages progressing to higher forms. In the book Taking the Naturalistic Turn" the philosopher … Continue reading A Modest Development
A Modest Proposal
In 1729 Jonathan Swift anonymously wrote a proposal for poor Irishmen to save themselves from poverty by selling their children as food for rich people, thereby turning a public burden into a benefit to society. In a non-normative world, this would make perfect sense. Our lack of respect regarding animals, allows us to make just these … Continue reading A Modest Proposal
Generative Process Analytics
Saying what we think and thinking what we say. Hidden in our language is a basic story about the way we think things work. Often, the words we use do not accurately represent this hidden story, while people who use the same general systems terms may be implicitly thinking of a totally different kind of … Continue reading Generative Process Analytics
Theory, Practice & Innovation
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. ~ Buckminster Fuller The philosopher Roy Bhaskar writes about theory-practice inconsistency. He likes to use David Hume as an example. Based on the implications of his idealist philosophy, Hume made the statement that it actually made … Continue reading Theory, Practice & Innovation
Entangled Categories
One of the obstacles in the way of creative thinking is the way we limit ourselves with conceptual categories. There are two most common habits are We put physical or constructivist constraints on conceptual (epistemic) tools. We associate categories within exclusive sets. These habits can be quite subtle and nuanced, but they appear everywhere in … Continue reading Entangled Categories
Knowing, Fearing & Questioning
As we sit in a circle together, we can watch how thought arises. Noticing, we can make distinctions between categories of knowing-thoughts, fearing-thoughts, and questioning-thoughts. As we sit in a circle together, noticing, and allowing all knowing, fearing and questioning thought to pass, without holding or offering, or saying -- just noticing -- as we … Continue reading Knowing, Fearing & Questioning
Everyday Bardo
Following excerpted from Chogyam Trungpa, The Six States of Bardo There seems to be quite a misconception as to the idea of bardo, which is that it is purely connected with the death and after-death experience. But the experience of the six bardos is not concerned with the future alone; it also … Continue reading Everyday Bardo
Alderlore Insight Center 