Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Emergent Paradigm is about Life-itself and How It Creates Itself

Based on Process Metaphysics Characteristics (New Paradigm)
• Interactive relatedness
• Wholeness
• Innovation novelty
• Productive Energy
• Fluidity

Process Metaphysics Requires
• Becoming based on values
• Wholeness
• Stretching for Novelty
• Fluidity
• Self aware energy
• Relations of relations
• Functions of functions

New Life World View
Eleanor Rosch has also described the world of life:
"Primary knowing" arises by means of "interconnected wholes, rather than isolated contingent parts and by means of time-less, direct, presentation" rather than through stored "re-presentation." "Such knowing is open rather than determinate, and a sense of unconditional value, rather than conditional usefulness, is an inherent part of the act of knowing itself... Acting from such awareness is "spontaneous, rather than the result of decision making”, and it is "compassionate…since it is based on wholes larger than the self."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Aloha Norm and Skye, Thanks for this excellent work and for sharing it with all of us.

It was very good meeting you both and I look forward to what lies ahead. All the best, greg