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The last few years have been spent building our networks. Getting plugged in, getting connected, and sending out probes to “find our tribes.” We are RAPIDLY finding each other now, and nodes are beginning to form as people cluster around shared intention and define new organizational dynamics of how they’d like to align and join forces.
I’m seeing people “wake up” to the realization that there is a massive amount of value to be unlocked as we shift away from old metrics of “what we value” and into new metrics for wealth and meaning. The new metrics are emergent, but clearly multidimensional and human-centered.
Here are some of the axies I see in shift:
– from scarcity to abundance
– from finite to infinite value
– from ownership to stewardship
– from transactional to relational
– information hoarding to knowledge creation
– from isolation to cocreation
– from passive consumer to active producer
These shifts are visible in many new forms, and I’m excited to be a part of the evolution. Below is a visual of exciting projects in gestation, new platforms and products under development, and adaptive chaordic organizations in formation — all of which I’m playing in.
w00t!
– self-select based upon vision, intention, and project interest area
– create an architecture for how people can plug in to each other via a sustained connected framework
– demonstrate collective epic wins 🙂
There are many swarms of similar activity taking place across the planet, with many “BuilderShips” approaching liftoff. As part of humanity’s new OS, we anticipate these nodes will become interconnected, mutually informing, and co-arising.
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What other nodes do you see forming?
emergent by design 
This is great. I’d love to be part of it (in fact having written a film that explicitly applies the swarm motif to social transformation, I like to think that I already am). First, though, Venessa, you’ll have to do me the courtesy of responding to my messages and emails. I don’t get it. I feel like I’m being expunged from the Meimis ontology.
You know all about what I’m doing with the Catalyst MAP team, cause I wrote you a long, nice, friendly letter about it last year. Here are a couple of links, just in case you’ve missed the rest of my work:
http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk
http://coalitionblog.org
The Coalition network was originally based on http://cotw.cc, but the network came apart in 2011 and we didn’t keep the web hosting. Despite all good intentions, alas!
Tim
hi tim!
sorry i wasn’t able to respond sooner to your emails, i’ve been doing a lot of travel and meetings and am several hundred emails behind at this point. it’s nothing personal.
and yes, i’m eager to see the Catalyst MAP. when you have a working prototype, please let me know.
@Tim
Hello!
I would love to connect with you if possible. Making contact with you has been on my list of things to do ever since I saw your video and realized we were working on the same project. I am so glad I ran across this post!!!
@ Vanessa
I would love to make contact with you as well. It seems the best way for us to make all of this happen faster and with ease is if we are all on the same page. I have been weaving primarily on the west coast helping to pull together like minded groups/parties from BC to San Diego and as far East as Denver with the intent of finding/building an online resource which would allow for community knowledge/skill/training/resource sharing & project collaboration within a network based on shared values – all of which align with the trends mentioned above. We have begun to bring some tech teams together and are also at that important stage of establishing coherence among those who choose to play so I think if you are in the midst of groups doing the same it would be optimal if we were all in the same conversation together.
As a side note, and you may already be familiar as I saw the Buckminster Fuller Institute on your list, here is a recent link I have found and potential connection to make among friends of friends regarding projects already underway trying to construct the architecture for us to plug into: http://www.greencenturyinstitute.org/techneverde.htm
Be well all of you and I hope to be weaving with you soon!!
If EITHER of you want to make contact please connect with me via FB or let me know the best way to get in touch.
with Gratitude and Enthusiasm…
Hi Betsy!
Would love to connect & find coherence among tribes! I’ll email you.
Venessa
> What other nodes do you see forming?
for instance:
Social movements, such as
Occupy
Commons
Solidarity Economy
Transition Network
Process communities:
Theory U
Art of Hosting
World Cafe
Appreciative Inquiry
plus the zillions of nodes listed on the right, which is probably still less than 2% of what is happening on the evolutionary edge
lists will always be incomplete and little use of, compared with maps that shows patterns of relationships
but evolutionary cartography (the map of the edge of Emergence) is impossible at our current altitude of individual and collective consciousness
however, someday there will be enough communities of talented evolutionary cartographers, capable to hear and respond to what the future in need of their egoless collaboration is asking from them… someday…
Hello George,
I have been finding good mapping initiatives, which overlap my ideas for a global knowledgebase system. Glistening Deepwater has created some top-level, and top-quality, concept maps of existence from a Buddhist perspective. I plan to design linkages between them and meta-concept maps for creating sustainable and resilient economies. The meta-concept maps will probably be universals at first, and then may be modified by cultures for whom they do not resonate with their worldviews. They will be at least partly about how economic decisions can be processed to retain cultural values.
I will probably also attempt concept maps of my understanding of what information technology relationships are needed to support human processes. More than one technology may be appropriate and feasible, and I’ll try to design for flexibility (likely to need assistance in that part).
Then there are the layers of categories and their descriptions which describe (or at least point directly to) the fundamental life support systems people and other species require. The idea here is that these layers will have meta-descriptions of their categories and examples of the ranges of variation in them. That makes these layers introductions to the specific life support systems which are appropriate in specific eco-regions, and in the ecosystems within them. Within each region you have a possible range of solutions for each aspect of life support. You also have a range of cultures and their worldviews, which act as the second, and decisive, filter for what is and is not appropriate. You also have gaps in performance, created largely by colonialism, global corporate capitalism as international competition, and lack of access to ICTs (which is about to disappear, as almost everyone gets online, at least locally). To compensate for those gaps you have Schumacher’s Appropriate Technology, plus recovery of traditional solutions, plus subsuming gaps in new, comprehensive design science solutions.
This section needs to be a true GIS system, integrated with supply chain and distribution system management software, and input-output analyses that not only cover and quantify monetary transactions, but literally simulate the materials and time involved, the capital equipment and its capacities, and the transforms of materials into products and inputs for other processes (thinking Cradle to Cradle). The simulations will get progressively more complete and more important over time.
Then you have public health information management systems, which I expect to be the VistA Electronic Health Record, with added geo-coding and patient de-identification for outcomes research. These changes, plus the changes being developed now to make communication networks among nodes resilient to power failures and communication interruptions, and some additions for local forms of patient care, and finally a health care knowledgebase comparing treatment modalities using Bayesian logic, will enable local indigenous healers to be fully empowered to give excellent care, using primarily diet, exercise, nurturing, spiritual practices, herbs, and whatever else is present in the environment, inexpensive, and effective — plus anti-retroviral cocktails, and other necessary drug or surgical treatments.
There will need to be analytical links between layers, and feedback loops wherever feedback occurs in the physical world, plus theoretical feedback systems to explore and subject to experiments. Some of that would be coded logic, and there also will be major social support systems.
In July of 2007, about 375 professionals and activists, many but not all cartographers, came together at U.C. Berkeley for the Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth, focused on applying digital earth imaging and GIS to environmental issues facing humanity. Essentially all of them at least partially fit your description. The Symposiums continue, in different nations around the world. We can pull this off, by creating the necessary context and support structures. Wanna play?
Mark Roest
(Ask and ye shall receive!)
🙂
hi mark,
you described a lot of pieces there.
where is step 1?
and where might the overlap be with others within our network who are working on similar things –
ie
– george por and evolutionary edge mapping
– dan robles and knowledge mapping / ingenesist
– medard gabel and Earth Dashboard project
hi george,
didn’t you work on creating some of these evolutionary maps before? is there anything available that can be revitalized?
Great article!
( unrelated: where did you get that image used? ( the emergent tree/fractal image ). I might want to use that in a personal project I’m working on )
Image was floating around in a closed forum, poster could not remember source. Google Search app on iphone (photog’ed off the screen, ugh) found it at http://www.isisscrolls.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=787&Itemid=80
They give photo credit at the bottom of the article to Vicky Brago-Mitchell http://www.abm-enterprises.net/wallpaper.html .
Thanks for the info!
( extremely interesting blog here, too! )
Cheers
As George Pór points out, there are a zillion nodes busy federating and bootstrapping, among them the Management Innovation Exchange Venessa already listed here under her Resources. A posting on the MIX:
I put this here to lead into the kind of cartography I’d like to see emerge.
1. A network of Humanity OS nodes pulled from their collective lists of references such as Venessa’s blogroll, like Twiangulate does it for people on twitter. Example: node connection map for Gideon Rosenblatt and Traci Fenton http://bit.ly/z5gVYB
2. An excerpt readily available, to add substance for rational or intuitive steps of filter, focus, amplify. (good enough, above?)
3. Augmented ways to curate the linked node lists network to learn WHY people are sharing or pointing to the references they do (inspired by Jan L. Gordon and Monica Anderson).
Why: to find faster who and what resonates with me at a given time from a wide open map of more or less like memes, messages, and minds to locate the learning or sources that helps me on my next step. It works as-is already, and slow frequent interaction builds trust, I just look forward to federating a notch faster.
Bernd (+ Venessa too!),
hi! my name’s Connor. I’m responding here because I’ve had some insight related to these ponderings of cartography, and I also have the skills for potential implementation of those insights. I’ve been thinking about what a custom platform for metamapping the movement would look like, drawing hugely on the inspiration of the memetic strategies icons that were created by Gavin Keech and others, and drawing on this post by Venessa, and this comment by you, Bernd. I’ve done some creative drafting as well as providing more discussion and context on a page on thenewhive at http://connoropolous.thenewhive.com/metamap-the-movement
Basically, I’m looking at a platform solution that would provide a graphical node-based web interface for general overviewing, and deep-diving into the depths of what actions we are actually taking. It begins to look at your ‘next-step’ areas, Venessa, of:
-establish initial coherence among those who choose to play
– self-select based upon vision, intention, and project interest area
– create an architecture for how people can plug in to each other via a sustained connected framework
And also uses these design criteria you mentioned, Bernd
1. network of Humanity OS nodes pulled from collective lists of references
2. An excerpt readily available
In regards to this -> ‘to find faster who and what resonates with me at a given time from a wide open map of more or less like memes, messages, and minds to locate the learning or sources that helps me on my next step.’ -> I’ve been thinking about the ways that the metamap overview that I’ve drafted could start to show us the clustering of OS nodes in order to better see what areas are extremely strong and also where isolation is starting to happen in the system of systems.
Looking forward to your thoughts,
Connor
Very nice Connor! This is the kind of visibility we need.
hey connor!
let’s get you plugged in. i’ll email ya.
Thank you for finding the creator of the image so that she can be properly credited above.
> from scarcity to abundance
Yes, but Profit requires scarcity, and so this is an enormous struggle for conventional business.
The massive abundance possible is being held at bay and cannot spring forth until we stop treating Profit as reward.
Most Investors require Profit as payment for the risk they took, and so how can we ever repay our Investors, if not with Profit.
Ah, but there is a special set that *can* accept Product for what they pay – for that is what they already do, though they are ‘late’ in time (this is fundamentally a temporal problem).
We could organize Consumers to invest for Product by simply attracting them to pre-pay for the goods and services they want and then use those funds to buy the Sources (the Means of Production) – causing those Consumers to become real co-owners of the farm or factory or ISP or whatever.
Consumers already pay all the Costs anyway *and* they pay Profit because they buy the Product late instead of owning it already.
So once we begin investing for Use-Value in this way, we will not even sell the Product (except for surplus sold to non-owners), and Profit will not exist.
When we sell to others, we should charge Profit against them, but then treat that overpayment as though they were Investing in future production.
These rules can be written as:
1. Product is the Investor’s Return
2. Profit is the Payer’s Investment
Abundance will be goal if we write and apply a social contract to the land and tools we will buy and co-own to begin an agricultural based production mosaic rewarding artisan specialization through a “Basic Outcome” of food, shelter, health care, child care/education, transportation, etc. without the need to pass Tokens.
hi patrick,
i’ve been seeing you post this argument for several years now.
do you have any case studies or working examples?
the concept seems to make sense in theory, but i don’t see how it actually works in practice. as an example, let’s say a community of people wanted to own an ISP. you’re saying they need to pre-pay for that good in order to get it. ok, on the one hand, let’s say the project would take 2 years. people don’t want to wait. on the other hand, you’re making the assumption that people have the money to invest. many don’t. so i guess i don’t “get” how your theory actually works.
have you prototyped this on a small scale with any community anywhere with any good or service?
> let’s say a community of people wanted to own an ISP.
> you’re saying they need to pre-pay for that good
Yes, though some people pre-pay for cell-phone service,
so the concept is not totally foreign.
> the assumption that people have the money to invest
Yes, booting is the most difficult time for an OS.
Many services are not available, and you are inside
of a not-yet-fully-functional environment.
Not everyone has extra money to invest, but some do.
My vision is to attract middle-to-high-income people
that want quality organic goods at the lowest possible
price to invest in these For-Product organizations for
their own benefit.
We would simultaneously attract skilled-but-destitute
workers to operate machines and organisms in return
of “Basic Outcome” of food, shelter, health care, etc.
Both consumers and workers are investors and become
co-owners (or at least Use-Share holders in the case
where we use a non-profit org or trust or something
to allow using the land productively without being
punished by property taxes) in that production and
receive at-cost product as a side-effect of their co-
owning the Sources of those products.
A more aggresive, ‘hybrid’ approach would have us
attract typical VC and then pay them a % of Profit
(when surplus is finally being sold) while requiring
some non-zero % of profit is treated as the Payer’s
Investment toward the purchase and utilization of
even more Sources required for production.
Allowing consumers to pre-pay in very small amounts
helps too:
http://KickStarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure
Patrick, that sounds very “cost the limit of price” – very Mutualist.
I don’t think it will be possible to somehow stamp out all signs of profit from all human interaction, but I’m convinced that in a truly decentralized, grid-based network society/market/economy; that profit-motive will quickly find a more natural equilibrium with other more reciprocative modes of exchange. And certainly, artificial scarcity is the primary pillar holding up the profit-based (and thus, ultimately hierarchical) society.
what?
“Here are some of the axies I see in shift:
– from scarcity to abundance
– from finite to infinite value
– from ownership to stewardship
– from transactional to relational
– information hoarding to knowledge creation
– from isolation to cocreation
– from passive consumer to active producer”
-no. scarcity to abundance is a viewpoint, not an axis. an axis joins two things. there is no scarcity to join to abundance.
-value has never been finite. value is bullshit. valuable, but not real. made up by humans. absolutely necessary, but always infinite.
-ownership is declining, stewardship is stagnant. hopefully it moves to fill the gap.
-transactional? what? relational? what? every relationship has transactions. otherwise what’s the f*$#ing point of being in relation?
-information is not hoarded. resources are. knowledge is over created. the beauty of imagination. not that that is a problem.
-i am moving from isolation, but it was self imposed. cocreation has little to do with the movement and everything to do with accomplishing something. creation is individual. because there is only one creator. the universe. we act as one, whether we acknowledge or deny it!
-we need more active consumers. ie one who actively consume things that can be reproduced. passive producers feed passive consumers. this is the problem. consumption is necessary or art would not exist. the trouble is mass production of shitty art.
i’m a little drunk, but you are hooked into an audience of passive talkers. the dev team is isolated, in you own diagram. why?
learning is for babies. are you ready to act? i need your help, and i need you to be honest with yourself.
i look forward to our meet next week, unless you want to cancel. did you get my last email?
cheers,
scott
Scott,
A less confrontational style would be more effective here.
Think about what Venessa is trying to say, not about how her language is imprecise according to your views.
I had no problem understanding her points. If you didn’t understand something, you could have asked her about it.
You could have added your points without attacking her language and perspective.
Further, it doesn’t really help anyone for you to attack Venessa’s readers.
Peace
Curtis
yup. wasn’t being very nice. my apologies. feel free to delete my comments.
Thanks Venessa for the wonderfully laid out thoughts. Being a lean thinker, always having in mind to bring the abundant human creativity to reality I have been pleased to read what I am being called to do. Acting locally, yet getting connected globally via technology opens up what Peter Diamandis and Steve Kotler describe in their book “Abundance”, http://www.abundancethebook.com/
In which way (with least transactional costs) can we bring our knowledge, and wisdom together, so that the dreams we have may become reality faster than we imagine?
One idea we had a while ago brainstormed about is @WikiWall (similar to walls with individual personal assets we created at last day @gathering11)
cool. what’s the status of the wikiwall project?
Hi Venessa – what a nice coincidence, was about to answer on your comment to Georges with https://singularacademy.appspot.com/WikiWall.
After experiencing the power of a over-sized Twitterwall at http://mobilecamp.de in 2009 I had a dream: capturing all the information flows during a conference in real-time, and connect with the assets, networks, and skills people have gathered over the time. This led to the initial first prototype as a stack of cards on which I had written the names of people who had influenced on my work, and being over the years. I used the MVP (minimal viable prototype), not combined yet with pictures, videos, sketches, etc.
Maybe it could look like http://bit.ly/GerhardRichterAtlas which is on display in Dresden till mid-April at http://www.skd.museum/en/special-exhibitions/preview-2012/gerhard-richter-atlas/index.html
2010 in preparation of COINS 2010 I started to write a whitepaper on this concept: https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1CzaMvagdpzEN1QwDonsDmyZR9Iyp52fROiZec2FEOvA&hl=en&authkey=CP-UxboF
…. which I’d like to open up and continue co-writing, as I see broader use for it (even extending to what I have already outlined). Please feel free to use parts of mentioning http://twitter.com/LockSchuppen
In addition to nodes, it would be interesting to see the shifts happening, how the issues are progressing and how the commons are being taken care of, where and by whom. This would be a factor of agency and acceleration of meaningfull collaborations. In particular look at slide 8 of this slide set. Maybe not totally the evolutionary cartography George is calling for, but could lead to it. Especially if connected to a form of navigation of possibilities for action was coupled to it as drafted on slide 7.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhq4r7sj_0djzczzcj
Tim Rayner, this is the type of thing I was thinking of re evolution of your catalyst map.
Thanks Venessa for your tweeting the slide set last week 🙂
Thanks Helene – embedded your remarkable slide set on my blog, in order to spread the word.
thanks, helene.
have you gone further yet in your slide deck to actually create scenarios / user stories ?
at a high abstract level, what you’re describing makes sense, but until it can be grounded in a specific example, it is not actionable.
for instance, on your slide 8, can you walk me through a story of what’s going on there? can you create a context of a specific person or group, and a specific challenge or issue they are facing, and what it is that this graph you talk about actually does that helps empower the people?
Funny to see how our society is “awakening” faster and faster towards transformational new models. We’re in the phase of rethinking or reinventing many of our traditional systems.
Inspired by the recent Stoos Gathering (http://www.stoosnetwork.org/) I created a little mindmap (http://www.mindmeister.com/131754566/better-world).
Just as George Pór mentions in his reply: “What other nodes do you see forming” I have created this mindmap because I assumed many “nodes” seem to be operating or transforming more or less independently of eachother, but yet with the still overall goal in mind: changing the world to become a better place to live in.
Awesome mind map, louisdietvorst!
It never ceases to amaze me how we are “individually” simultaneously aligning around so many of the same new values and ideas. I don’t really believe that it’s individually at all. If you didn’t see my comment above, you’d probably find it relevant because the discussion was about node mapping initiatives, resources, people, etc. I posted this link to some designs I’ve been working on, thinking about what kind of custom tool might work ideally for this. http://connoropolous.thenewhive.com/metamap-the-movement
hi louis,
nice roundup there.
i’m eager to get to the next step. these “mindmaps” we make are essentially just tree structures. there’s nothing inherently relational or intelligent about them.
like….. what are the patterns or insights or commonalities between these things? why is it significant? how do we use it?
everything feels very flat to me still, and i don’t want to have to dig through thousands of pages of content to find the meaning.
i think we are on the verge of building knowledge in more useful ways.
Hi Venessa, thx for the comment. I agree, mindmaps are not the ideal tool to build knowledge. I created them just as a simple aid in gathering pointers to communities that people might not yet be aware of. So they can more easily find communities they didn’t know existed and that might resonate with them. So only meant as an inspiration tool. I am open to discover some more intelligent ways to build knowledge.
I love everything about this site, and resonate completely with this article. I am on the west coast of the US, and let me tell you, things are indeed picking up. New alliances and convergences of conscious for-benefit organizations are really picking up the pace in whole new ways. I am not going into any details right now, but just wanted to say thank you for even further reconfirming what I already know. Hopefully Vanessa, we can both find the time in our busy schedules to sync up. Lots of big things in the works is fun but the speed at which things are moving is dizzying!
cheers!
Its an inspiring and hopeful proposition but ….
I’m not so confident that we escape our origins – they are embedded within us – they are cognitive, emotional – they are how we are made.
The body has “junk DNA” and “Junk parts” – like our Appendix – I’m thinking that our minds also have “junk cognition” – ways of behaving that seem to be very difficult to change as they are influenced by primitive conditions – the chemistry of emotion and our bodies (embedded consciousness).
I see history as a too-and-fro between the different ways of thinking and behaving – between control and freedom.
There are great opportunities for connected freedom a the moment and expressions of it everywhere but at the same time those in power are waking up to the opportunities of the new medium to exert their power and control.
My feat is that we may end up with a new OS – one that reinforces the old order to an extent never imagined.
The future may be much worse – we may wish for the old OS.
Still – you never know!
Seems to me like behaviour and structures that are being generated by very interconnected and interlinked people and purpose(s).
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Vanessa,
Are you aware of the Resilient Communities movement?
http://www.resilientcommunities.com/what-is-a-resilient-community/
John Robb is involved with this – it’s a network of people looking for new ways of organizing life and livelihood without being involved in corporate, non-ecological, non-democratic systems. It seems like they are also thinking about many of the same things – how to link up sustainability, hackerspaces and the Maker movement, Internet grass-roots activism, and real, physical communities to help a new world grow up in the cracks of the old.
cheers
adam
yes, i am connected to john. thank you!
I just returned to re-read this post and the many excellent comments. I have long imagined this process but know that my limitations prohibited me from participating in the nitty-gritty developmental work. I attempt to share some of my impressions of the moment.
George Por (whom I had deep contact with in the 1990s). I share your concern that paradigms of individualism still constrain activism, but I believe there are other systemic challenges limiting progress. I personally am overwhelmed by my own limited finitude (even with my grandiosity of vision) with the virtual infinity of options. Cartographic tools may make navigation more comfortable but I wonder what set of technologies can augment each person’s personal contribution with the awesome complexity of the emergent whole. I feel essential technologies are missing for integrating an individual’s work with the emergent holarchy. A few missing technologies or processes I discuss below.
I sense we have a limited and inaccurate picture of who we are. In a recent post in TNE I proposed that we are each worlds, a much richer view than we are persons/selves in a world. http://www.facebook.com/groups/120497731371323/doc/224362760984819/#!/groups/120497731371323/permalink/249122595175502/
We also may grossly underestimate the learning/developmental changes the new emergence may open up for us, or even may be required for emergence to become truly viable. We need to consider our new technologies being used by populations whose distribution of cognitive/behavioral competencies are well beyond our contemporary distribution. To this end we may need an assertive movement of uplift, possibly based on a re-definition of “education” as Organizing-for-Learning_&_Learning-for-Organizing. I have given considerable thought to how this might be accomplished. I find myself personally in great need for such a program and expect many others who read these blogs, and the multitude locked-into their small set of blogs and websites (from the vast list George anticipates) may also need help in learning and changing.
I dream of a vast database where each node is a multi-dimensional cognitive/behavioral profile of a person’s individual differences, revealing the awesome (and vital) diversity of humankind. In my BUS (Boostrap UPLIT Scaffolding) I propose a process whereby persons involved in recruiting/orienting members to an emergent movement assist each other in gathering data on cognitive/behavioral variables of individual differences – in a fun process.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8qHxOXalbUuMDU4MWNmY2MtZjkxNS00MTU5LWIwZGEtNmFjN2Y4YWZlNDU1&authkey=CMag77kP&hl=en_US&authkey=CMag77kP
Starting with those initially attracted to emergence, and as the membership grows exponentially (insured by the BUS process) this spreads to a new global Census of essential variables for tailoring person-person relationships in team/community formation. We really don’t know who we are, the human population, as to relevant variables for these times. Issues of security/privacy must be considered.
In 2004 after reading “The Support Economy” by Shoshana Zuboff I proposed the creation of a SEAFNet. SEAF = Support, Enable, Augment, Facilitate. A new “occupational domain” emerges to assertively mediate matching in relationships, learning, and collaboration. My initial essay on this: http://home.comcast.net/~larryvictor/NUCOM/THE_SEAF_Society.htm .
Seafers serve as enzymes enabling and accelerating human processes, often insuring the processes fulfill where they would not without seafing. Some seafers work directly with persons and teams, assessing their relationship and developmental needed. These seafers also relate to another category of seafer who operate the vast databases of options and can timely provide relevant information for persons and teams served. The cognitive/behavioral profiles would greatly enhance this process. I envision many persons being part time frontline project participants and part time seafers. I need collaborators with complementary talents to help develop a workable process for creating experimental seafnets.
Some persons weave very elaborate worlds in their mind/brains. Their output may reflect only a narrow aspect of their worlds, often constrained by professional and disciplinary pressures. I feel technologies are needed to assist persons interested in creating a semiotic representation of their woven world. This would complement their cognitive/behavioral profiles. Technologies would then relate and match these different woven worlds. A few years ago at Glisten’s suggestion I tried to use VUE as a platform for creating a representation of my own woven world, which I call “nuet”. However, I learned that I cannot do this by myself. So, we may need a variation of a seafnet to assist persons create representations of their inner woven worlds.
I feel a vast synergy of what is happening in the domains of Emergent-by-Design and with some of the complementary processes I mention above. But, I have no idea of how I can proceed myself. For various reasons I have been passive for a few years. As I review my own past productivity I discover compositions that are quite relevant today but which I had totally forgotten composing. Just for reference for anyone interested, links to my compositions online at this time can be found at:
http://nuet.posterous.com/links-to-online-docs .
One I just re-discovered (while composing this) relatiing to SEAFing (2008): http://www.quicktopic.com/42/D/Npz5GbKvtzh4W?p=1&inline=0 .
Yesterday I re-discovered a 1994 paper that contains many of the components of my current work: “The Fundamental Reality of Text”: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcqHxOXalbUuZG1zbm5oa18xNWY5YnBkbWQ2&hl=en_US .
I don’t expect busy persons to take the time to read all of this. I know my writing often requires study and is difficult to comprehend by passive reading. I am very pleased being engaged again.