HUMANKIND vs GAIA

PROPOSITION: With its visual languages, humankind “breaks from the mold” for all life in Gaia. This is not necessarily negative for Gaia, as it was from within Gaia that humankind emerged. At present, humankind’s spreading and effects on Gaia are analogous to cancer metastasizing in an organism. But, unlike cancer, humankind has vast potential to…

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Belief vs Knowledge and the Minds of Trump Supporters & other Humans

ABSTRACT: Humans have two operating systems in their brains, for belief (mammalian) and knowledge (human).  They interact differently in different persons. Some persons have no knowledge about significant phenomena and function only on belief; they cannot be “reached” by informing, as their OS can’t process knowledge. This is work in progress and feedback is essential….

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SEAFING revisited, Mutual & Web

SEAF = Support  Enable  Augment  Facilitate Being aware of our personal limitations gives us the collective potential to seaf ourselves to live much fuller personal lives than we do not acknowledging our personal limitations. FINDING: All humans require seafing to live optimally in complex human orgs. Special seafing will be required to uplift our dysfunctional…

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SEAFing and HELPing

On 8/22/2016, I could only skim an email from a colleague requesting Seafing or Helping. I was so dizzy I couldn’t sit up, the side effect from a new med I had just started taking to improve my memory. I had the same reaction from my previous memory med. Writing this I am not dizzy…

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IS EMPATHY POSSIBLE ?

I have just viewed a half-hour discussion on empathy, that is very enlightening to me. This post reports my brief reaction to the video, not a crafted explication on:  Is Empathy Possible? , which is the query of their debate. The “furious debate” is between Edwin Rutsch, founder of the Center for Building a Culture…

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BOOKS, relevant on the nu human

Recent books I have read which cite changes in how we conceive of humans and humankind.  Many of these findings are not incorporated in how we think and behave. These are not all that do this, and there are many older books that do this also. We just haven’t connected the dots. More dots from…

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HUMAN SYSTEMS – revisited

PROPOSITION:  The sci/tech of Human-Systems (systems with human persons as the basic components) is vastly inferior to the sci/tech of systems where humans and human agency don’t (or is assumed don’t) exist as part of or influencing the system. All our knowledge of systems is within human systems, as humans observe and record data for…

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