Survival of the Cooperative
Esther Ewing
EwingChange at aol.com
Thu Feb 10 09:44:06 PST 2005
Agneta:
I agree with you. I am Canadian living in the US and I was very upset when
Mr. Bush said that if a country wasn't with the US it was against the US.
Whatever happened to the grey space in between the black and white? Open Space
is about opening room for debate and for discussion in a climate of mutual
respect. We can be angry about something but it is not "my way or the highway".
It should be the beginnning of a healthy respectful discussion.
Respectfully Esther
Judy,
When I read what you have written I feel upset. I feel upset and hurt by the
irony, the aggressiveness, the selfrighteousness, the oversimplyfied
statements.
We are, I believe, many many persons in the world who in a way love US, and
at the same time are frightened by the role US plays today. We are also
frightened by terrorism and by fundamentalism of all kinds. All kinds.
We don´t have to agree at all on this list. And, we have to refrain from
verbal tricks if we want this list to be the global open space where we can
handle complexity together.
I might be wrong.
Agneta Setterwall, Sweden
Spady's wrote:
Funda writes:
"a long term democracy (at least freedom of expression for everybody) can not
be createdby force."
The big question I have for you to think about is...Whohas force beenused
against in the Iraq war? It isn't the people who are trying to build the
democratic society. The U.S. and it's allies forced the tyrants out so that the
Iraqi people are no longer supressed and can live in long term democracy.
So.......how can you say that it won't work?? You have to break it down to who the
force is being used on. Can the tyrants like Saddam freely express
themselves??........absolutely not. He gave up that right when he chose to kill
innocent people.
I guess "time will tell" if the long term democracy works in Iraq but at
this point, I don't think you can accurately conclude that it won't......
As for your comments on why we can't discuss 'this and that' and all have a
group hug........do you honestly think that's even possible with people like
Saddam??.....or UBL? Please.........
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: _Funda Oral_ (mailto:fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr)
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: Survival of the Cooperative
from the essay :
"The researchers at the Santa Fe Institute have denominated self-organizing
systems Complex Adaptive Systems. The key word is adaptive, which indicates
that the system, be that molecular or human, is constantly adapting to its
internal and external environment seeking a better fit, a better way of
getting along in the world. This might also be called learning, for the
system is not only finding better ways to be, it is also remembering them
for future use. In short a body of knowledge is being built which will
enable higher levels of survival."
"Collective consciousness in this case is not to be confused with deep
shared consciousness manifest in the Jungian archetypes, but rather a functional
intelligence that appeared capable of observing a situation, consider the
options, and then take concerted action – all without a word spoken and in an
incredibly short period of time (minutes). How this works, I don’t have a clue,
but in the situations where the collective consciousness became manifest I
found myself reminded of the behavioral shift of the ant colony when they
moved from random search to well ordered columns, bringing home the tart, all of
which seemed to happen with the snap of a finger. I suppose if ants can do
it, humans might be capable as well."
some reflections onwars, cooperation, open space etc ;
I agree that a sudden need or crises cancause quick self organisation and a
shift in collective consciousness (i.e wars, natural disasters).
However self organisation for aquick reaction doesn't mean that a healthy
community ( democracy, peace,long term cooperation, civilization)
has been built.
I studied business and not psychology or sociology but from life
experiencesi know that"fear"preventsaopen space, a long term democracy
(at least freedom of expression for everybody) can not be createdby force.
Wars are different then naturaldisasters as they aremade by human.
Survivalshould be theeasiest achievement whena group of human being comes
together. So the big question for me is why we are stillat that level
after 14M years? why we can not discuss how we can develop alltogether in
peace,joy and richness?why we don't discuss how we can
establish a better cooperation, better ways of exchangeamong different
cultures, religions, regions, countriesetc ?
Funda
----- Original Message -----
From: _Jack Ricchiuto_ (mailto:jack at designinglife.com)
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Reflecting the way ecologists today are starting to redefine "fitness",
author Robert Ulanowicz defines fitness as “the ability of a species to play a
role in the web of ecological processes.”
Jack
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------------Original Message------------
From: Steve Gawron _<gawron at megsinet.net>_ (mailto:gawron at megsinet.net)
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Date: Wed, Feb-9-2005 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: Survival of the Cooperative
Hello Don and all,
There is an interesting book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi which supports that
concept of survival of ideas in a Darwinian context. The book is called
"Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience", ISBN 0-06-016253-8
In brief, a "flow" experience is akin to reading a book you cannot put down.
I hope you enjoy the read.
Steve Gawron
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> I can give you a lot of detail to back this up but I will not take up
> air time here to do that. I just wanted to say that I know for a fact
> that the "survival of the fittest" mantra was not even spoken by Darwin.
> But, his whole body of work seems to have been boiled down to that idea.
> I have my theory as to why that is. But, if you really look at all of
> that work, the role of cooperation, adaptation and flexibility plays a
> much more important role. We did not make it this far through
> competition, but through pervasive cooperation.
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