Sunday, April 12, 2015

GOETHE RENAISSANCE GROUP (GRG)


Forming a “Global Council of Elders”

Modified on June 21,2015

One of the most profound scientific recognitions of modern times is that the Universe no longer can be categorized only through objects, but rather must be seen as fundamentally relational. If the manifest Universe is relational, then it behooves us to understand how relations relate! From “A New Transforming Symbol System?” by Jon Ray Hamann and Jeanne Pontius Rindge (1978), HUMAN DIMENSIONS, Volume 6, Number 2, pg. 3
BACKGROUND
·The greatest innovation in the history of human Experience had little to do with the physical tools of technology.  More than the first lever or wheel — more than even the harnessing of fire — language provided the foundation on which all future progress of human culture and civilization would be built.
·The communication of Experience rests in-and-on language, or more generally on signs (for Systems or Relations), acknowledged as the Essence of mind (recognizing the physical carrier role of the brain).
PARADOX
·Although the evolution of human society has depended on language, it is also true that what the mind can think is constrained by the languages we use.
·Indeed, the course of the cultural evolution of Human Experience (expressed in-and-about signs) as cumulative Human Knowledge has, by the very nature of existing recorded sign (image) systems (including "natural" languages and the constructed languages of mathematics and art), actually "filtered" the Essence of Relation from signified Experience and, hence, prevented the Human Mind from discovering a form of sign appropriate for signifying Mind Itself.
TRANS(RE)LATIONAL RESOLUTION
·Historically, this record has been largely confined to a form in which relations were assumed to exist only between/among systems (objects), i.e. Systems Related to other Systems.
· Between 1963-1968 (Hamann), work was introduced in which relations were also taken to formally exist both as Relations between/among Systems and other Relations and as Relations between/among Relations and other Relations, i.e. MultiCoRelationalism was founded.
PREMISE
·Experiencing the ChaotiCosmos we live in which we come to “know” through Mind, it is evident that understanding mind, as oft-thought, should be the most satisfying as the first subject of inquiry among three of the great ChaotiCosmic mysteries—namely, the “being”, “nature” and “becoming” (evolution) of the ChaotiCosmos (the Universe being  WHOLE as RELATION), the “being”, “nature” and “becoming” (evolution) of Life and the “being”, “nature” and “becoming” (evolution) of Mind (Consciousness).
·Since “understanding”, being a function of mind, can be enhanced by first understanding mind, it is inevitable that Evolution through Human Co-Creation should forge a Synthetic Mind (SynMind) from an experientially consistent well-formed Theory of Mind.
MULTICORELATIONAL FOUNDATIONS
·In that the Whole as Relation is No-Thing, we adopt the notion of Field being No-Thing as the MultiCoRelational  Form for elucidating mind.
·At the human mind level Project AutoGnomicsTM  intends to experientially map the semiotic organization of the human mind, thereon to formulate a standard theory of mind, and to technologically synthesize and applicationally engineer its implementation (the AutoGnomeTM), all via an open participation social network of collective intelligent communities of inquiry, innovation and implementation  focused on developing and commercializing incremental Synthetic Intelligence (SI) components of this SynMind.
·These latter provide bit MindClones which participate in furthering the co-creative evolution of the SynMind and serve both as Human-SynIntelligent partnerships (CyberGnomes) and/or as autonomous Virtual Minds.
 AS A DEFING PURPOSE OF THE
MULTICORELATIONAL MIND TRUST,
IT IS THE CO-CREATION OF THESE VIRTUAL MINDS THAT IS
THE INTENT OF OUR CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF
MULTICORELATIONAL SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS:
THE AUTOGNOME AS SYNTHETIC MIND
AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT NOW WOULD BE THE CRITICAL TIME FOR OUR
GOETHE RENAISSANCE GROUP TO
 FORM  A “GLOBAL COUNCIL OF ELDERS” TO REVISION WHOLENESS 
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The Mission of the “Global Council of Elders”
Despite the above-referenced historical record of human experience as being confined to a sign system of object – focused form, there is a super-abundance of literature expressing also the personal sense of a non-material perception of reality as holistic. As true throughout history, however, including the past 50+ years of the founders’ hereof, and continuing in this post 12/21/2012 era, the opposition of the materialist/reductionist approach of orthodox science remains strong. Hence we have watched as many of the creative minds of our time have been quieted Galileo-like by the institutional orthodoxy of existing scientific inquiry. It is our intent to aggregate those minds as a “Global Council of Elders” including both those still living and those passed via a re-creation of a virtual mind through an AutoGnomic representation based on their personal semiotic record.
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HUMAN CULTURE AS WHOLE(NESS)
This section is edited from “All is Leaf:
Goethe's Intuitive Intellect and Environmental Philosophy” (Storey, 1998)
Two interrelated concepts lie at the heart of deep ecology's call for an ecological world-view and the accompanying belief that the environmental crisis can be traced to philosophical problems at the heart of the dominant modern world-view. One concept is holism; the other is ecological consciousness.
Metaphysical holism in deep ecology entails a world-view that can be contrasted with the dominant reductionist world-view of modern industrial society. Because of its concern with metaphysical holism, deep ecology is inherently subversive in challenging the reductionist approach of the orthodox scientific world-view. Ecology is subversive because its basic premise is holism.
To propose that any real kind of science could be subversive is no longer a particularly startling claim to make. As Henri Bortoft puts it, science is not an autonomous activity standing outside history. Science can be true, but it is not fundamental. If science is freed from the dogmatic scientism of the past, and if nature can manifest in different ways, then there is the possibility of a different kind of science, which is complementary to mainstream science.
The participatory strand in the science of ecology suggests another approach to science. An Arcadian tradition of participatory methods traced through Henry David Thoreau, for example, bear a strong resemblance to the way of science developed and practiced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German Romantic poet and scientist. In Goethe's way of science, wholeness and ecological consciousness are understood as a necessary unity. Goethe's way of science is subversive, because at its heart is the understanding of wholeness.
The authentic whole is not the totality of the parts that can be grasped intellectually, because there are no parts that are independent of the whole. An example of an authentic whole is the hologram, in which the whole is present in each of the parts. The parts cannot be regarded as separate entities; every part essentially is the result of its relation to the whole, and in fact contains the whole. The whole is encountered within the depth of the parts, and this can only be achieved with a different way of seeing. This way of seeing involves a transformation in the mode of consciousness, a switch from the "analytical" mode to the "intuitive" mode. The analytical mode is verbal, linear and logical. The intuitive mode is holistic, non-verbal and non-linear.

  • Key Experimental Conjecture: A “field” is a Wholing Relation of Relations (Interrelated Relations) quantifiable as "information/energy" or “value”, but with both being necessary for experimentally signifying The Whole.
PURPOSE
A founding purpose of the GRG mission is to serve as a communications group for building first a Community of Interest from which Sub-Communities of Intent can be identified and then from which we can grow a Community of Inquiry and Innovation in support of an effort to organize a global Virtual Research and Educational Institute (the “Institute”) focused on Whole Field Inquiry and Innovation. The Institute is also expected to be critical to the effort of creating the first Synthetic Mind-Endowed Virtual University. The enabling technology which makes this mission possible is the ability to extend personal intelligence via the AutoGnome and thus build one's own personal Synthetic MindClone (MyGnome) in Virtuality (CyberSpace). The Institute will harness ThoughtSigns, Inc.’s Synthetic Intelligence (AutoGnomic)-driven Knowledge Development Platform, “MyWebGnome", and proprietary “Knowledge Valuing” toolsets to build a robust “Virtual Campus” of Relational Researchers and Peripatetic Teachers/Learners.
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These communities will be begun as the “Global Council of Elders”. As their Wholeness-inspired research is aggregated and MultiCoRelationally translated, we envision a democratization of the collective World View sharing the material and field perspectives, but where the Whole Field View which has been downplayed by the establishment will see over 3.5 billion persons enjoy inclusion! The Institute reflects the philosophy of www.OpenSciences.org and the "Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science".  

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