THE NEXT LEVEL OF EMERGENCE

There is truly AWESOME activity underway – but I feel it is all at the same level.  My metaphor are clouds at different altitudes.  The moisture rises and spreads at the appropriate climatic levels, filling the sky with intricate activity.  Later, beams pierces upward from the cloud and moisture rises to another, higher, level and…

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CORE CURRICULA FOR EMERGENCE

An honest query: How much of this exciting looking discipline: ADAPTIVE AI3 do I need to comprehend and follow? Even with 2 PhDs under my belt, I recognize that this site would be like a freshman wandering into a final year graduate seminar. I can’t even get started from the home page. With fortitude, this…

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FEELING OUR CRISIS-of-CRISES

This post was triggered by my reading the following proposal of intent: “The aim of the study group is to create an intellectual platform to theoretically discuss and empirically analyze co-production and its implications for the organization and management of public services”. Is this SPINNING OUR WHEELS, Afraid to face reality? Do YOU, really deep…

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Beyond Civilization

We are passing from a long, multi-millennial era of civilizations.  nuet views the era of civilization as late embryonic in a birthing metaphor, from our mammalian conception.  Civilization is the caterpillar in the metamorphosis metaphor. Our past record is a mix of material structures, some with information embedded.  The societal structures which channel much of…

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EXEMPLARS – Seeds/Soils/Scaffolding

Jeff, thanks for the Good News Exemplars.  It has been a long while since I collected World Watch papers; good to see the more attractive cover. Such exemplars are widespread and in nearly all our Domains of Challenge.  Marilyn Ferguson’s 1970s book, The Aquarian Conspiracy was a collection of such exemplars; which I called “Societal…

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The Virgin Truth

Two jpg one page docs by Steele to Branson, as the basis for this commentary. One  Two. It is very important that Steele be seriously studied, and involved. As much as I might agree with Steele (once I am familiar with his ample details) on his proposed alternative to Capitalism as Usual, and cannot assign…

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ALIEN INVADER: CIVILIZATION

In response to a poem posted in FaceBook/ The NextEdge: The machine appeared In the distance, singing to itself Of money. Its song was the web They were caught in, men and women Together. The villages were as flies To be sucked empty. God secreted A tear. Enough, enough, He commanded, but the machine Looked…

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on Science Education for Children, etc.

Larry Victor Montessori did much more than expose children to information. The overall context of support and the careful design of how the information was presented (structural within the “toys”). Just as it is critical to assess an adult’s frame and cognitive/emotive/performance (CEP) competencies in selecting what SET of stimuli to present them (from which…

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