Sunday, December 6, 2015

FIRST PEOPLES RE-CULTURING OF GLOBAL HUMANITY


Vision/Purpose
To lead in the Global WHOLE-istic Re-culturing of Humanity via a First People’s model begun in a select North America Indian Nation based first on the development of a MutiCoRelational (Multilingual/Multicultural) Indigenous University which would then provide the innovation foundation to grow the Nation, e.g. into an international Intelligent Community Forum candidate as a notice to the World of the birthing of a New Relational Age born of the ancient traditions of all Indigenous People expressed in the Lakota aphorism, “mitakuye oyasin” (we are all related).

 Mission/Strategic Approach
To focus on the Democratization of Access to Knowledge and Capital, both individually and collectively, through SmartR Technology in Enterprise Development with an initial concentration on Education, Research, Entrepreneurial Technology Development & Business Applications. The SmartR Technology is PTI’s licensed AutoGnomicsTM [i.e. Self-Knowing] Knowledge Technologies.  Knowledge-itself is taken to be the fundamental value when Truthful, Relevant, and Collectively Good for Humanity. The initial applications focus is on the HealthCare and  Environmental Restoration Industries.

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PTI’s General Process
Precision: decisions driven by the best available knowledge
Therapeutics: actions directed towards enhancing humanity’s wellbeing in life &    environment
Innovation: ideation (conception), incubation (gestation), introduction (birthing)
& investment (nurturing) in entrepreneurial/enterprise development
PTI's Initial Knowledge Focus
A.   BioPhysical/BioChemical Life Components
B.   Precellular/Cellular Life Organization and Processes
C.   Mind/Body InterRelations and Synthetic Intelligence/Mind Applications
PTI’s Startup Application Focus Candidate
Empowering Innovators in Complex Carbohydrate Chemistry for Diabetes Therapeusis and Oxygen Supplementation

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BACKGROUND
First Peoples throughout the world face persistent challenges in community and economic development while protecting and growing their multi-lingual/multi-cultural distinctions and sovereign nation status while successfully interfacing with the broader non-indigenous world community. In order to compete and collaborate successfully, First Peoples must create new best practices in both business and government which begins from a recognition of their distinct cultures’ assets.

Every cultural tradition integrates ideas about ultimate existence (ChaotiCosmology) with ideas about which experiences ultimately matter (Ethics/Morality & Aesthetics). Recognizing that there is an accelerating growth in the awareness of the limits of the Systemic (thing-based, reductionist or mechanistic) Western Scientific Worldview, it is becoming ever more urgent for the sustainability of humanity to turn to a parallel focus emphasizing the necessity of a Relational Natural Worldview as the future. If the manifest Universe is relational, however, it behooves us to understand how relations relate! With this realization there comes the need to foundationally re-formulate the standard historical notion of “relation” which throughout recorded history has never addressed the possibility of MultiCoRelational forms. [The creation of MultiCoRelationalism has been introduced beginning in the period from 1963 to 1978 and is continuing at an exponentially growing pace]. The central challenge of the twenty-first century will be to integrate a (R)Evolutionary ChaotiCosmology with an Ecocentric Morality. An approach seems to be forming around the Epic of a CoCreative ChaotiCosmic (R)Evolution emerging from the necessarily irreducible Felt-Thought interrelation of the Analytical (Inquiry and Inference) and Intuitive modes of MIND as a System-as-WHOLE (metaphorically in the HoloGraphic sense). But since a Whole is No-Thing it requires interrelated relations for its explication. Hence the Relational Natural Worldview is that of a Universe as WHOLE and the (R)Evolution in Humanity is toward a societal organization in which each person is as the Whole. Toward that end, the principles of cooperative/collaborative organization are fundamental.

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NATIVE SCIENCE
In Native science, all relations are related to other relations. Native people have traditionally understood that creativity manifests itself in many ways, and that this creativity leads to new knowledge and a greater understanding of relations. The significance of the Lakota aphorism, "mitakuye oyasin" stems from the fact that it is a guiding principle of the "spiritual ecology" held by every tribe in its perception of nature. Guided by this metaphysical principle, people understood that all entities of nature—plants, animals, stones, trees, mountains, rivers, lakes, and a host of other living entities— embodied relations that must be honored. Through the seeking, making, sharing, and celebrating of these natural relations, they learned the subtle, but all important, language of relations. It was through such a mind-set over thousands of years, that Indigenous people accumulated their ecological knowledge and Relational Worldview.
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AUTOGNOMIC HEALTHCARE APPLICATION
The rapid emergence of Crowdsourced Knowledge Development including Citizen Science now has a focus on Crowdsourcing Clinical Trials (CCT). CCT expands the potential use of crowdsourcing from observational studies by adding it to truly randomized interventional trials. Randomized experiments allow causal inference because they assign subjects to a treatment and control group, and collect data from each. However, the fact that much of public health is driven by lifestyle factors suggests that CCT’s platform for crowdsourcing also has great potential to engage the public in producing new and trustworthy knowledge in the domains of diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and integrative medicine, which are primary drivers of health outcomes and spending. This adds critical information so patients may make informed decisions. Such CCT problems are best addressed by a diverse yet cohesive community that can bring to bear the various perspectives, knowledge, experience, insights, and sheer volume of collective effort necessary to finding reasonable solutions.  The grand challenge for such collective intelligence is enabling and encouraging a simple crowd to become such a community, and to actively and coherently work on such problems, producing outcomes that are valuable both inside and outside the community. However, for many modern problems as with CCT, the availability of people who would make up such an effective community requires a distributed and asynchronous mediation. Approaches to logic, representation, and technology found in typical information technology applications, primarily oriented on representing settled data/facts about objects and events in the “outer world”, are generally not very effective in representing the dynamic “inner world” of emergent, often inconsistent thoughts and reasoning of individuals or communities. The AutoGnome provides a generalized, computer composable framework for relating experience (both past and anticipated) and knowledge consistent with contemporary embodied and ecological approaches to mind. Since AutoGnomics employs the same formal/semiotic framework for organizing and representing both personal and communal collective intelligence, it should be particularly effective in integrating with and enhancing both collective and individual intelligence in advancing CCT to AutoGnomic Community-sourced Critical Trials.

COMMUNITY-SOURCED CLINICAL TRIALS


INTELLISITE APPLICATION:
(9-1-15)

 CROWDSOURCING CLINICAL TRIALS (CCT): Edited excerpts from
http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Sarpatwarietal._MLR1.pdf



The rapid emergence of Crowdsourced Knowledge Development including Citizen Science now has a focus on Crowdsourcing Clinical Trials (CCT). CCT expands the potential use of crowdsourcing from observational studies by adding it to truly randomized interventional trials. Randomized experiments allow causal inference because they assign subjects to a treatment and control group, and collect data from each. However, the fact that much of public health is driven not by pharmaceuticals, but by lifestyle factors suggests that CCT’s platform for crowdsourcing also has great potential to engage the public in producing new and trustworthy knowledge in the domains of diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and integrative medicine, which are primary drivers of health outcomes and spending. This adds critical information to the technical, clinical, legal and ethical data as to whether all material information is provided so patients may make informed decisions. 

Such CCT problems are best addressed by a diverse yet cohesive community that can bring to bear the various perspectives, knowledge, experience, insights, and sheer volume of collective effort necessary to finding reasonable solutions. The grand challenge for such collective intelligence is enabling and encouraging a simple crowd to become such a community, and to actively and coherently work on such problems, producing outcomes that are valuable both inside and outside the community.

However, for many modern problems as with CCT, the availability of people who would make up such an effective community requires a distributed and asynchronous mediation. Approaches to logic, representation, and technology found in typical information technology applications, primarily oriented on representing settled data/facts about objects and events in the “outer world”, are generally not very effective in representing the dynamic “inner world” of emergent, often inconsistent thoughts and reasoning of individuals or communities. 

Enter the AUTOGNOME as a crowd-changing radical solution.

AUTOGNOMIC COMMUNITY-SOURCED CLINICAL TRIALS 
The AutoGnomic logic of Inquiry and Inference defines and combines three forms of argument—inductive, deductive, and abductive—into an iterative adaptive system for settling on outcomes in communities of inquiry that seek “concrete reasonableness” in complex environments. The AutoGnome, founded on Peirce’s theory of signs, or semiotics, is a comprehensive theory of representation of feeling, facts, and ideas in which reasoning in both individual and communal forms can be formally described. Peirce's theory is historically exceptional in involving a genuine triadic relation between sign, object, and interpretant—the latter critical to explicitly accounting for different perspectives in members of the community. In other words, a sign is formally a sign for someother   to  someone. The AutoGnome provides a generalized, computer composable framework for relating experience (both past and anticipated) and knowledge consistent with contemporary embodied and ecological approaches to mind. Since AutoGnomics employs the same formal/semiotic framework for organizing and representing both personal and communal collective intelligence, it should be particularly effective in integrating with and enhancing both collective and individual intelligence in advancing CCT to AutoGnomic Community-sourced Clinical Trials.

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".  

Saturday, April 11, 2015


CENTER OF MIND

Frederick William Reed http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwreed
 “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Apple, Inc.
AND - TO CHANGE THE WORLD, WE MUST FIRST CHANGE THE HUMAN MIND

Human mind, hence life in general and humankind in particular, is on the doorstep of a co-created evolutionary extension of itself via a distinct new race of integrated human-intelligent machine systems (CyberGnomes) as MindClones which will in time emerge as an embryonic form of an Autonomous SYNTHETIC MIND (SynMind), the AUTOGNOME. The foundation for this revolution rests on one of the most profound scientific recognitions of modern times, i.e. that universal experience can no longer only be signified as “things”, but must be recognized as fundamentally “relational”. With a manifest Universe being relational, it behooves us to understand not only how things relate, but how relations relate, MUTICORELATIONAL SYSTEMS.
 
In order to accelerate this revolutionary research we have been gradually assembling a Global MIND TRUST on which to form a Virtual MultiCoRelational Institute [a Digital (e-Institute)] to aggressively promote broad and interdisciplinary general research, technical development and educational activities via a global, trans-disciplinary effort of a rapidly growing aggregation of relevant independent researchers, including scientists and practitioners, both inside and outside of academe and industry.

We are now seeking to give this Institute a physical presence
AS A TRANSCULTURAL MODEL
FOR CREATING AN INCLUSIVE SYNTHETIC MIND
and are looking to find supportive partners and sponsors for this effort.
 
AUTOGNOMIC MUTICORELATIONAL RE-CULTURING OF HUMANITY


 

Friday, January 30, 2015


    KNOW YOURSELF: A PEOPLES'
LIFE-KNOWLEDGE LAB
Go to:  http://www.autognomics.org
We are creating an open, online Community of Self-conscious
Inquiry, Inference and Action, a
KNOWLEDGE LAB
to crowd source the present global consensus understanding of
 “Life-Itself.”
The AutoGnomics Institute ( TAI )
Going Beyond…to know Life-itself more fully

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Philosophy, broadly defined as that hierarchical mode of inquiry which keeps drilling for foundation notions upon which existent knowledge rests, is clearly evident in the wonder of young children expressed in their constant “what, why, how, - - - -“. However, with their ongoing institutional learning constrained by imposed rules as to what is to be valued, their knowledge tends to the specific and their habits of learning dampen their self-confidence in the value of open, free inquiry into whatever triggers their curiosity.

 We are building a web platform for forming a grassroots people's online network (Community of Inquiry) of autonomous thinkers of all ages and backgrounds and commitments. Together they will be the source of the diverse experience, inspiration and innovation through which Humanity can creatively participate in the continued co-evolution of a new consciousness for understanding and explicating Life-Itself. This approach is to be distinguished from any approach founded solely upon the restricted experience and Material Worldview of an "authority-based" selection of small communities of experts.

Initiating intention:  Through the intentional gathering of living experience we might identify – bring into focus – a common thread or threads of human experience about what it means to be alive – what are the commons, unifying properties beyond the historic “can reproduce”, etc.   To know life as initiating, creative, ever evolving, changing, becoming; To look at consciousness – the organizing ways life forms, knows itself, creates its complexity, yet manages to coherently maintain itself, create meaning, experience itself, know itself both as whole as well as a part while permitting maximum freedom and free will to actual entities of form and forming.
   
WHAT WE'RE CREATING - AN INSPIRED COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY
The immediate focus of this Community of Inquiry is to serve as the online information/communications center from which to organize a global internet-based people’s research network from which the cooperative synthesis and application of a computer-based form of a virtual citizen philosopher/scientist can be realized. The intention is to structure this effort as an open participation opportunity for anyone or everyone at any time and anywhere to individually and/or collectively, dynamically and interactively, record their personally experienced sense and conceptualization of Life-Itself, ultimately with the collaboration of one’s personal virtual citizen philosopher/scientist partner.

Purpose:  To do philosophy of the ways of Life-itself - to explore realms of direct sense, intuitive experience – not so much to argue perspectives, but to share perspectives, to learn from one another with intention towards more complete understanding of organizing ways common throughout living/live experience.  Dare we say to discover organizing principles (realities so obvious there is no other) towards a new science of Life-itself? 

Background: So much of the current dominant worldview is formed from having learned, known and grown a perception of reality as an object-based representational view of reality in which we live. It’s a world of thingness and fixedness. Going beyond this “fixed” worldview opens opportunities for deeper knowing of softer, subtle living process, energies and capacities such as intuitive awareness, sensing, of knowing meaning-making, valuing beyond the concrete, object-based view of reality.  

Objectives:

·       To explore these mysteries that we might better know ourselves (to self-know) as human beings/becomings (not human fixed things) within a wholeness of constant initiating, changing, becoming, creating, and knowing.

·       To learn from our collective experience pool – how life organizes itself in and with each of us and to learn where we intersect in our experience – to be in our “receptive mode” of intuitively knowing more of the ways of wholeness.

So that the following benefits might ensue:

1)    A more fully developed working hypotheses from which to seek deeper knowing, a more complete worldview/life-view on ways of Life-itself.

2)    Develop a working infrastructure for sharing experiences – for capturing our stories (nested levels of sharing).

3)    A means of distillation – through selecting the most coherent and comprehensive examples of hypotheses on ways of Life-itself.

4)    Implications and applications of perspectives gained towards social and natural challenges that have emerged from long-held “fixed” worldview developed from one-sided/incomplete view known as our science/philosophy of material, object-based reality (physics/substance metaphysics). 

5)    We see this effort not as problem solving as if there are problems to be fixed, but to create anew, to grow beyond that which has taken habit and to encourage the forming of conscious presencing to see that if by taking a wholistic/live perspective we might experience a shift in what is possible; that in changing the focus of perspective – new ways become possible, and that we learn how much we know already; that we have experience as living beings but have not had the awareness or “language” for recognizing what we live all the time.

Background: Since 1992, The AutoGnomics Institute, Inc (TAI) a non-profit group doing research, consulting, facilitation and education bringing together 75 years of study exemplified by a paper authored by Norm Hirst on the emergent field  “Towards a Science of Life as Creative Organism” http://www.autognomics.org/What-is-Life-Part-I.html recently published in the Cosmos and History Journal of Natural Philosophy. TAI brings the possible into focus to grow a new worldview of live processes; a radical perspective on change for finding our way as human beings with consciousness of live, ever changing, creative processes in and with life’s inherent ways. Follow on Twitter @autognomics. TAI reveals that many of the World’s intractable problems stem largely from lack of understanding of the MultiCoRelational organic ways with which Life-itself creates and is ever becoming, finding effective coherent acts of truth with relevance and collective goodness.  However the intention here is not to “fight” for dominant perspective, but to elucidate a fuller perspective than what holds mainstream science and popular consciousness.

With a hypothesis based on decades of philosophical, formal, and theoretical studies combined with empirical applications, TAI creates learning conversations with leaders at the front lines of social change to further explore the live processes in which individuals, organizations, families, institutions, governments and the world can and does function with greatest coherence of good. A new perspective is needed to go beyond the object-based worldview, a worldview inclusive of the dynamics known and experienced throughout life yet not accounted for by our current science worldview.