Difference between revisions of "Holotopia"
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<p>One of the reasons is obvious: If we should use information as guiding light and not competition, our information will need to be different.</p> | <p>One of the reasons is obvious: If we should use information as guiding light and not competition, our information will need to be different.</p> | ||
| − | <p>In his 1948 seminal "Cybernetics", Norbert Wiener pointed to another reason: In <em>social</em> systems, communication is what <em>turns</em> a collection of independent individuals into a system. | + | <p>In his 1948 seminal "Cybernetics", Norbert Wiener pointed to another reason: In <em>social</em> systems, communication is what <em>turns</em> a collection of independent individuals into a system. Wiener made that point by talking about ants and bees. It is the nature of the communication that determines a social system's properties, and behavior. Cybernetics has shown—as its main point, and title theme—that "the tie between information and action" has an all-important role, which determines (Wiener used the technical keyword "homeostasis, but let us here use this more contemporary one) the <em>sustainability</em> of a system. The full title of Wiener's book was "Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine". To be able to correct their behavior and maintain inner and outer balance, to be able to "change course" when the circumstances demand that (Wiener used the technical term "homeostasis")—the system must have <em>suitable</em> communication and control.</p> |
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| + | <p>A system whose "tie between information and action has been severed" is 'brain-dead', and scheduled for extinction.</p> | ||
<h3>Diagnosis</h3> | <h3>Diagnosis</h3> | ||
Revision as of 05:54, 19 August 2020
HOLOTOPIA
An Actionable Strategy
Imagine...
You are about to board a bus for a long night ride, when you notice the flickering streaks of light emanating from two wax candles, placed where the headlights of the bus are expected to be. Candles? As headlights?
Of course, the idea of candles as headlights is absurd. So why propose it?
Because on a much larger scale this absurdity has become reality.
The Modernity ideogram renders the essence of our contemporary situation by depicting our society as an accelerating bus without a steering wheel, and the way we look at the world, try to comprehend and handle it as guided by a pair of candle headlights.
Modernity ideogram