paan organism law
only organicism is a ..fully adequate worldview, and therefore only its root metaphor — the organism — is a fully generative thought-shaper – otto paan
*huge ie: organism as fractal
need this metaphor/fractal to get to the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8b legit free
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via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1836292176046608432]:
Quote of the Day, September 17, 2024
* Technology as Artificial Representation
“The very idea of “natural representation,” when combined with the 17th-century Cartesian idea of an objective space in which we can represent by means of coordinates, contributed significantly to the emergence of the mechanistic worldview: not only is the natural world nothing but a large-scale complex machine, but also the human perceptual mind is nothing but a small-scale simple machine like a pinhole camera, i.e., a camera obscura. This thought-shaping mental model—the human perceptual mind as a camera obscura—which more or less covertly lies behind the shaped thought that the technology associated with the leading formal and natural sciences are the final answer to the problem of mental representation—whether it is a pinhole camera, a brownie camera, a movie camera, or a digital camera application in a smart phone—has proven to be a remarkably influential and persistent myth. The increasing mathematization of the sciences, the models for problem-solving derived from engineering, the reduction of biology to statistical mathematics, evolutionary genetics, chemistry, and physics, and the reduction of animal behavior to Turing-computable algorithms, as well as the reduction of consciousness to physico-neural processes, all point in the same conceptual direction: the variety of life itself must be brought under one idealizing system of representation. And, not surprisingly, that very idiom is conceptual and limited to the operations of mathematizability and/or formal logic. The fact that science itself speaks in abstractions and idealizations does not in the slightest stop the advance of mechanistic thinking, because it justifies its existence by appeals to its objectivity and practical efficacy. Thereby, it reduces life (and in its wake, Being) to phenomena that are understood once they can be replicated or described in mathematical (and increasingly digital) terms, potentially making them available for artificial reproduction.”
– Otto Paans
so let’s quit focusing on tech to measure/math things..
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it ie: a sabbatical ish transition
which led me to this michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1797890156047077849]:
Once we have combined our understanding of root metaphor theory, augmented by ground motives that come from our culture, perhaps we can consider participating in the co-creation of worldviews ? This is what the theory of ‘Thought-Shapers’ is about, put forward by a contemporary neo-organicist school of philosophy, i.e. the work by Otto Paans and Robert Hanna.
* An introduction to the Theory of Thought-Shapers:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Theory_of_Thought-Shapers
“Thought-shapers are essentially non-conceptual contents that operate in the construction of mental imagery and thought by arbitrarily picking out some topological and/or processual properties, and subsequently exaggerating or diminishing their presence.”
According to Robert Hanna and Otto Paans et al.
“In our view, *only organicism is a philosophically, scientifically, artistically, morally, and socio-politically fully adequate worldview, and therefore only its root metaphor — the organism — is a fully generative thought-shaper. As a consequence, the root metaphors associated with animism, mysticism, formism, mechanism, and contextualism are all, to some degree, constrictive thought-shapers; and the natural automaton or natural machine, **the root metaphor associated with the mechanistic worldview, is the most constrictive.”
*huge ie: organism as fractal
need this metaphor/fractal to get to the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
again.. we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. in an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8b legit free
See also: Constrictive vs. Generative Thought-Shapers, https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Constrictive_vs._Generative_Thought-Shapers
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and via another michel tweet (notes here: talbott mechanistic law):
“Organicism in the maximally broad sense, entails a commitment to the thesis that there is a metaphysical continuity between the natural world, life, and (human) mindedness. We are metaphysically continuous with the rest of the cosmos.”
– Otto Paans
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be you. 