Repurposing :-)

Love the concept of repurposing - such a practical concept. Viewing things for their intrinsic value rather than a social or economic purpose. Ideas and concepts are the same way - aspects of their social value become detached with advances in communication and human creativity. Conflict arises in leadership based on conflicting ideals - one side not trusting the others perceptions or methods. Successful leaders are able to create unity without using the age old method of fear and a common enemy. Repurposed fear is hope and a reposed enemy is a friend. The measure of a leader that has endured throughout the ages revolves around sacrifice. Do they sacrifice others or themselves?

Human Terrain...

The military concept of human terrain has more significants to me than just the integration of anthropology and human geography. It also seems to reflect a spiritual element that our current society has lost. It's a method of developing social structure and concepts based on the complexities of the immediate biosphere. This can be seen as the method of thought that sustained or most earliest ancestors for many many generations.

My initial research began on two topics when initially assigned in Afghanistan, one was to understand the function of the human terrain element in the information dominance center and two, to explore more fully the anthropologist concepts on tribal structure. What was apparent to me, due to my background in graphic design, was that their are many historical symbols even in our own culture that originate in our immediate biosphere. My interest was the wonder of a more profound connection that may influence our perception of these symbols.

This led to one more field of study that fits into a concept of social influence and that began to emerge in the 1990's but is linked to the influence of the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book entitled The Selfish Gene (1976). The book is said to describe a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles that could explain the spread of ideas. This concept has grown through the practice of applying biological algorithms to explain the spread of knowledge and ideas in our social structure. Interesting enough is the very open distain for the spiritual that Mr. Richard Dawson publicly displays.

To try and explain this biospherical link and how it effects culture based on the perception and persistents of its symbols is to use an apology of human terrain. This communication model can be more easily recognized rather than a biological model of cell reproduction. In addition it also opens up a new direction in the study of memetics. There is a persistent symbol that permiates all cultures used to represent and understand communication and it's social implications. This symbol is also found in ancient writings and may generate a better understanding of early concepts of a human terrain. This symbol is the use of water and it's dynamic to represent human communication. Water in all its natural form and functions to understand the enigma of our existence.

The Symbolic Life...

"We have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul - the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill - this awful, banal, grinding life in which they are "nothing but." . . . Everything is banal; everything is "nothing but," and that is the reason why people are neurotic. They are simply sick of the whole thing, sick of that banal life, and therefore they want sensation. They even want a war; they all want a war; they are all glad when there is a war; they say, "Thank heaven, now something is going to happen - something bigger than ourselves!"

http://www.jung.org/readingcorner.html

Dream interpretation...

"... a range of strategies and practices used in an organisation to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organisations as processes or practices."

Know wonder that Cain felt threatened...

After a Crisis of Faith...

As I read this article l am reminded of the paper by Danny Guyton - " There is No Alternative to Tribalism." It is only our fragmented Hebrew tribal traditions that has created such a fearce opposing duality. Beginning with such stories as  Cain and Able and resulting in decisive splits into Christianity and Islam. Both of these resulting tribal branches has continued their fragmentation ignoring the original leadership concepts proposed by their Old Testament leaders. Leadership is the only tool available for tribal harmony but leadership methods in these great tribal traditions lack the human competence to overcome their created discord. The leadership style that was written about in the Old Testament and in more symbolic methods in the New is one that allows traditions to exist but brings together the knowledge of opposing opinions. The foresight of the biblical writers is there knowledge of Meme creation and the mythology needed to transform tribal beliefs into a plausible reality for everyone. With this in mind it was a coordinated effort between the selected biblical writings and the resulting leaders through a positive duel approach of tribal customs and example brought peoples together. Where as the Roman Empire existed out of pure brutality and force it was claimed by the efforts of early Christians who practiced the resulting merging of Hebrew trading with the organizational methods of the Roman Empire. Our Christian heritage was successful in creating a grand European culture that grew on the newly formed tribal symbols and rituals until being fragmented by a deliberate attack on those very symbols that brought a portion of the traditions together. What emerged out of the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent Catholic Reformation was yet another major cultural split that separated science as a it's own separate form of knowledge management that created symbols in a more rigid system of observation. However, in this human geography there exists the overriding desire of all people's - to belong.

"After a Crisis of Faith, a Former Minister Finds a New, Secular Mission" - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/after-a-crisis-of-faith-finding-a-new-secular-mission.html

"There is No Alternative to Tribalism" - http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro/17/

5 senses - 3 scales

They will find there are 3 levels not 6 senses

Writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://safe.mn/nJw5

Sense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://safe.mn/nJGI

How Writing Changed the World | LiveScience - http://safe.mn/nJGE

Sixth Sense Mapped in the Brain : Science : Nature World News - http://safe.mn/nJG9

The fulcrum of a Zealot...

“Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” - is now a New York Times best seller. Love the example of the "hype curve" and its results. Not to mention the protection of tribal symbols that generates interest in a topic that did not exist before. It seems  based on a fundamental communication model that attacks opposing ideas as threatening - this fits a tribalistic social model perfectly and if plotted on a "hype curve" seems to ride on a much bigger sine wave.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealot:_The_Life_and_Times_of_Jesus_of_Nazareth

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview | FULL MOVIE

This online movie was so interesting to me - it combined a lot of social elements into a very creative composition. I was in a rental apartment on the 15th floor in Washington DC on a temporary assignment. It was a post from a gentleman I follow on Facebook - Joe Brewer. He is a social change strategist and facilitator of idea implementation for people seeking to innovate at the intersection of the advocacy, policy, and technology worlds. In other words - we have similar. As I watched it on my little phone, I became annoyed with the size and moved to watching it on my laptop. It is a full length feature so I soon grew tired of this small screen too - so I ended up hooking my laptop to the tv using an HDMI cable - perfect. Watched enthralled the entire time.

Pattern Biological Insite - 39:44

Imaginal Cells - 41:50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1p9P5ee3c

Knowledge Domain Transfer...

Simulated TIME magazine cover designed by Joe Trimboli - cover art is also an original based on discarded brown bag paper with a composition of "Culture of Death" elements that form a cross with the  word "STILL" composed of nails emerging from the background.  

My claim as an artist is a little shaky -  its not my profession and its not a hobby either. Its more of a talent I had when young, fostered during high school and later chosen as an undergraduate major in college. In college however it became something different - it became a mastery of plastic elements through an external expression. The mastery came through the realization that non-interesting topics such as history could be viewed as the evolution of design, thus creating an interest that was never there.

Have never heard this discussed or described but a feeble attempt would be "Knowledge Domain Transfer." My experience is that the structure of knowledge is consistent over time, irregardless of the domain and it is this structure that allows for cross-domain transfer of knowledge. This would be akin to the concept of "cultural meme's" as coined it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Meme's are described in biological terms only because Dawkins was a biologist while I experienced them as structured plastic elements that transfer between domains.

In one of my elective classes, I took a special topic entitled "Science and Religion". Had always been interested in my own religious faith reading many historical books on the subject and this interested me. It was in this class that I wrote and presented this early idea on the architectonic of thought. This is not my description but while discussing it with a visiting professor this was how he described it. As a wrap up to our "Science and Religion" class, the conflict that is thought to exist between these two knowledge domains was described as "bad science" or "bad religion." In my own words the absence of knowledge domain transfer. This is contrary to writings of early Church Saints who converted entire pagan nations based on an explanation of "The Way" that filled in gaps and replaced many social pagan customs. These Church writings are a historical record of this concept of cross-domain transfer of knowledge.

The concept of "meme's,"  by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene has been expanded by Susan Blackmore through the the concept that meme's replicate in an evolutionary method through human imitation. She also introduced a special category of memes called temes. Temes are memes which live in technological artifacts instead of the human mind. These meme concepts can be seen in how social media has exploded in our cultures and how media items can become viral. Although our methods of communication have changed the social structures where meme's replicate and evolve do not.

Knowledge and communication are at the essence of our humanity and Pope John Paul II was prolific in multiple languages and wrote many books. The one that influenced the "TIME" cover above was entitled, "Crossing the Threshold of Hope." It was a series of questions that John Paul answered from an expected interview with Vittorio Messori, an Italian journalist and writer. However, the interview was cancelled but John Paul answered all of Messori's questions in writing and delivered them to him with a suggested title of "Crossing the Threshold of Hope." So the book actually a collaboration that begins with the question from Messori, do you ever have doubts? The answer from John Paul is what pulled me in and led me to read a number of his writings and publications - "BE NOT AFRAID."

Adversaries

One day all the experts and leaders in various knowledge systems will realize that none of them oppose one another but fulfill each one. The big factor is the distribution of resources but at some point we must take responsibility and acknowledge the most profound resource of all....
Our own humanity.
If I look at the natural system, it is repetitive, changing, and adaptive - so are we. The Church teaches we can know God through his creation, the natural world, and if I observe all of nature in its beauty and all of humanity in its complexity - the only indication of the evil professed  to exist is within ourselves.
Christ did not condemn the knowledge systems of his time but worked within them and parallel to them adjusting our perceptions so that we could become one. His concept was NOT to live in peace but to live together as God intended us to live together - just as he had designed the rest of creation.
There are many animals both vegetarian and carnivorous but none eat more than nature provides. They live simple lives within there God given capacities but no model exists in nature that can teach us about our own humanity - except all of nature itself, all of space itself or all the universe. And there are no animals created by God that exist as adversaries.

Something New...

Money is system of measure in a social construct commonly called the "economy".  It is an agreed upon perception in literature that it is a symbolic of a biological system. All religious traditions that evolved from an oral tradition elude to this symbolic construct but attribute different stories to express these complex social functions. In the Christian old testament tradition, a compound book, of oral traditions and inspiration, an economy is not mentioned but it describes humanity in context with there natural surroundings and social activities.
These activities were described in the same manner that knowledge functions are described today - from the experience and knowledge of the discipline. An economy is thought of as as a single social activity now at the world scale due to our technology but our creation stories go back to even before a real social economy even existed. This draws me into the conceptual ideas of the old Testament writers who described these human concepts as the functional elements of nature that they were most familiar with. Knowledge as it existed at the time has always been a part of our activities and these stories place the knowledge of our ancestors into a functional perspective and system. Where I would differ with current perspective is only a matter of degrees but it creates and aligns itself with more traditions broadening the concept of the "economy" into something vastly different but of great importance.
The perspective changes from a totally human constructed social system to one that reflects a more traditional natural system that embodies both science and religious traditions and in doing so begins to unify thought and effort. There is NOT one economy just as there is NOT one country or people. There is NOT one government but governmental bodies that work together or are in conflict. These actions are all part of the system and profession known as "economics"  but it's limited to its historical context. As a human system of social interaction it's context has a very limited perspective with a focus only on the government and flow of currency between governing bodies. This system itself causes conflict by its very design.
Currency is an abstract idea of value that measures two very important elements in every scale of government: natural resources and human services. Although broad in scope the interaction of all human social activity has evolved into a system of measure that has become more important than the origins that it embodies. An abstract system that contains all the world's natural resources and all the world's possibilities of human activity but we are still describing it in terms of past technology and understanding. It's time for something new...

Garden

What if the universal was an energy wave moving in multiple directions - so what?
What if life was created by wind blowing across the water - so what?
What if we measured things using our knowledge of the wave - so what?
What if the wave brought things together in such a way that beauty was created - so what?
What if coming together formed a garden and both of us took care of it - so what?
What if I was blind and you were deaf - so what?
Would we still tend the garden?

The Plant

Knowledge grows like a plant cultivated for its fruit or like an animal raised for its meat. At the right time they both give up their existence for our nourishment and survival. Both live and survive in nature but both have been adopted to support our physical existence. In the end, both give up their being for our human intellect.
It's is our intelligence that recognizes our surroundings and as individuals we try to understand our existance by recognizing patterns of life around us. Our need for food has been dominated by our ability to recognize patterns and adapt them to a communal existance.
Adapting patterns is an individual's work but as the perceived pattern is shared they become something else. For our existance they combine space, time, scale and mass; taking a form that exists in the reality of many people. It is a natural process unique to our existance.
Eisenstein developed the mathematical formula E=mc 2 (square) - it existed in our perceptions prior to his formula but it was not integrated into our human knowledge. However, once the pattern was defined in such a way that it was understood and accepted by a great many people as being true then it was understood as part of our shared reality.
All human knowledge moves through stages of development and evolution that begins with our senses - if we use them.

Learning?

I find it interesting that we are creating things that are able to learn. Creating logical sequences and putting them inside things that move and make decisions then call it learning. In most cases it's robotics or a "black box" that causes us to react. There we go again...