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Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra. The Hidden Connections. An Unfolding New Vision of Reality and Social Implications for Cultural Transformation. A Vision in which Life is at the very center Replacing mechanistic Cartesian worldview. New Ways to Think of Life. New Perceptions New Language New Concepts.

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Fritjof Capra

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  1. Fritjof Capra The Hidden Connections

  2. An Unfolding New Vision of RealityandSocial Implications for Cultural Transformation • A Vision in which Life is at the very center • Replacing mechanistic Cartesian worldview

  3. New Ways to Think of Life • New Perceptions • New Language • New Concepts Processes and Patterns of the Organization of Living Things – The Hidden Connection between phenomena

  4. Complexity Theory • Science of Complexity • Nonlinear Dynamics

  5. Characteristics of A Living SystemGaia TheoryJames Lovelock & Lynn Margulis • Social Reality Evolved from a Biological World, 2-4 million years ago • Southern Apes • The Cellular View • Internal Simplicity – biochemistry is simple • Ecological Simplicity – few demands on external environment • No Organism exists in isolation

  6. Cell Action • Metabolism occurs within a cell’s boundary • A chemical network is created • These networks appear wherever and whenever there is life • Living networks continually create or recreate themselves • Through Transformation or Replacement of Components

  7. Life • Life has arisen from an unbroken continuation of the autopoetic network of the first DNA • Life has unfolded over 3 billion years in a uninterrupted process – • Energy flow yields instability – Bifurcation Point • Elements can branch into new structures and new orders emerge

  8. Santiago Theory p34 • Cognition – the activity of self-generation, and self-perpetuation of living networks. Maturana and Varela • Life and Cognition are inseparable – perception, emotion, behavior • Autopoesis – self-generation of living networks • Environment may trigger structural change, it does not specify or dictate them

  9. Communication • Maturana states that COMMUNICATION is not transmission of information • Rather, it is coordination of behavior between living organisms, through mutual structural couplings • When there is communication about communication -- language arises

  10. A New View • Reluctance of scientists to address subjective phenomena is part of the Cartesian heritage – the essential division between mind and matter • In no way does this imply giving up any scientific rigor

  11. Consciousness Study p43 • Traditional – does not address non-linear dynamics • Functionalism – denies conscious experience is an irreducible emergent phenomenon • Mysterians – neglect viewing consciousness as a process, nor appreciate nature of the emergent phenomenon • Neurophenomenology – true science of experience will partner with natural science

  12. AHA • With Systems Thinking we observe: • A Fundamental Unity of Life • Different Living Systems Exhibit Similar Patterns of Organization • Applying our knowledge of life patterns and principles of organization with living networks WORKS for social realities

  13. Power - Galbraith • Coercive Power – win by inflicting or threatening sanctions • Compensatory Power – offer incentives or rewards • Conditioned Power – Change beliefs through persuasion and education (the art of politics)

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