New Series on Emerging Paradigm

In this series of pub notes, I hope to make it a real discussion. That is, I hope pub note subscribers will contribute their thoughts.

The topics will be:

∑ Recognizing the nature of and dynamics of this fundamental paradigm shift

∑ What a paradigm is
A paradigm is a system of very basic ideas by which we define and recognize reality; how we make sense of experience. For example, the old paradigm reality has been "what we can perceive through our senses, if you can see it, touch it, or measure it, it is real." Once such basic ideas take hold they develop a momentum of their own. As people live with such ideas it is very hard to escape. This is the power of a paradigm. Life just keeps changing everything until the old paradigm doesn't fit or work anymore. There becomes an abundance of problems that cannot be solved. Then a new paradigm is born. The transition from the old to the new paradigm can be a time of chaos. That is our current state.

∑ What are the characteristics of this emerging paradigm?

∑ How will the paradigm affect you?

∑ How the old paradigm makes problems and how the new paradigm solves them. The new paradigm provides a new and different understanding of the fundamental character of life, how it works and what it requires. As we learn about and examine the basic ideas of the new paradigm we see how the unsolvable problems can be solved.

For example, (full details in future PubNotes):

Health Care: The US has the worlds most expensive health care. Unfortunately it is not the world’s best care. On most measures of quality, in comparison to other countries, the US ranks from midlevel to last. The basic assumptions behind our health care, notions of machines, mechanisms and technology, are ill suited to care for living organisms.

Prison Populations: The US has the largest percentage of the population in prisons. We also have the toughest sentences. Knowing how living organisms learn and develop we see how unreasonable tough sentences increase recidivism and too many laws increase crime.

Education: Schools assume today they can put information into children. They cannot. Education results from self-motivated inquiry. Schools can facilitate inquiry, but not force it.