THE HOLISTIC PARADIGM SHIFT
(holism is becoming an experiental imperative)
“The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality, as all fields of art, engineering, science, and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles. However, as the centuries passed, the holism of the Renaissance gave way to specialization and intellectual fragmentation. Today, with the scientific work of recent decades showing us at a deeper level the fundamental unity of natural organization, it is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissance, returning to the holistic perspective on a higher level, with a new set of principles and theories.” NSF/DOC-Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance:
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology And Cognitive Science
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology And Cognitive Science
[The enabling technology for this future is Ai3's AutoGnomic (tm) Technology.]
BUT IS THE "HOLISTIC" REALLY WHOLE ?
(does the whole presence in each part?)
Knowledge and the Whole
What is missing throughout most Systemic re-constructions arguing for holism is usually any attention to the inevitable, but surprising and paradoxical, realization that a System-as-WHOLE is No-Thing (Bortoft, 1996) and must be explicated through the notion of “InterRelated Relations” (Hamann, 1978).
Human Culture as Whole(Ness): The CoCreative CosmiChaotic (R)Evolution:
Goethe's Intuitive Intellect and Environmental Philosophy (http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/154/187 Chris 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. The foregoing was extracted from the following paper which Adopters-of-Gnomes (TrueRelationalResearchers) can access at the TrueThinker AHA! Community.
What is missing throughout most Systemic re-constructions arguing for holism is usually any attention to the inevitable, but surprising and paradoxical, realization that a System-as-WHOLE is No-Thing (Bortoft, 1996) and must be explicated through the notion of “InterRelated Relations” (Hamann, 1978).
Human Culture as Whole(Ness): The CoCreative CosmiChaotic (R)Evolution:
Goethe's Intuitive Intellect and Environmental Philosophy (http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/154/187 Chris 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. The foregoing was extracted from the following paper which Adopters-of-Gnomes (TrueRelationalResearchers) can access at the TrueThinker AHA! Community.
[TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE as WHOLENESS
Jon Ray Hamann, William Dale Koehler and Jodi LeRay Hamann
Jon Ray Hamann, William Dale Koehler and Jodi LeRay Hamann
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to report first on the status of Ai3inc’s approach to building Synthetic Intelligence(s)/Synthetic Mind, i.e. the AutoGnomeTM, an Automated Inference/Inquiry software exploiting Mechanized Semiosis as an interpretation of C. S. Peirce, and second on the initial commercial version of this technology as an IntellisiteTM generically branded as TrueThinkerTM. Third, based on www.TrueThinker.com as an effective Knowledge Development Management System, and moving toward a re-cognizing of Knowledge as WholeNess, a generalization of Peircian Semiotics is introduced which includes a Tri-Relational (InterRelated Relations) Triadic Semiotic Sign Form. METHODOLOGY: A Pragmatic Action Methodology is invoked through which revisions are enacted in a process somewhat like an applied philosophical extension of the “scientific method”. RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS: The reiteration herein, as an instance of semiotics, of our contention regarding Humanity’s glaring non-recognition of the co-essentiality of the notion of “Relation” with that of “System” in signifying our existing experience further underscores the call to a Relational Systems-founded philosophical re-assessment of “Truth in Knowledge”. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: The comparative benefits of the AutoGnome(tm) derive from its Virtual Nature as a WebGnome(tm) and the general purpose Semiotic Nature of its core Automated (Autonomous) Inference/Inquiry Engine which can be deployed in virtually any context (education, health, etc.). ORIGINALITY/VALUE: It is speculated that this tri-relational generalization of Peircian Semiotics is a necessary modification in order to ground Peirce’s claim that the sign triad is an irreducible “whole” which, in Relational Systems, is No-thing and hence must be of the tri-relational form.]
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to report first on the status of Ai3inc’s approach to building Synthetic Intelligence(s)/Synthetic Mind, i.e. the AutoGnomeTM, an Automated Inference/Inquiry software exploiting Mechanized Semiosis as an interpretation of C. S. Peirce, and second on the initial commercial version of this technology as an IntellisiteTM generically branded as TrueThinkerTM. Third, based on www.TrueThinker.com as an effective Knowledge Development Management System, and moving toward a re-cognizing of Knowledge as WholeNess, a generalization of Peircian Semiotics is introduced which includes a Tri-Relational (InterRelated Relations) Triadic Semiotic Sign Form. METHODOLOGY: A Pragmatic Action Methodology is invoked through which revisions are enacted in a process somewhat like an applied philosophical extension of the “scientific method”. RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS: The reiteration herein, as an instance of semiotics, of our contention regarding Humanity’s glaring non-recognition of the co-essentiality of the notion of “Relation” with that of “System” in signifying our existing experience further underscores the call to a Relational Systems-founded philosophical re-assessment of “Truth in Knowledge”. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: The comparative benefits of the AutoGnome(tm) derive from its Virtual Nature as a WebGnome(tm) and the general purpose Semiotic Nature of its core Automated (Autonomous) Inference/Inquiry Engine which can be deployed in virtually any context (education, health, etc.). ORIGINALITY/VALUE: It is speculated that this tri-relational generalization of Peircian Semiotics is a necessary modification in order to ground Peirce’s claim that the sign triad is an irreducible “whole” which, in Relational Systems, is No-thing and hence must be of the tri-relational form.]
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