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Conscious and Fate

Recently found below picture on my hard disk. Usually use this picture to explain students organization behavior - as company have to be conscious about environment and internal state of the system, and do not relay on fate for market success.

But to make the macro view of the system we live in, specially now in time of deep global recession which is going now for 5 years and hearing all the time that banks and governments are responsible for it.

But yesterday Forbes published very interesting findings (1) which report that only 13% employees around the world are actively engaged in their jobs.

So are we conscious about result of such un-engagement ? Could we related it to recession ? Is it result of recession or is it reason for recession ?

Such a question are putting different phenomena to observe. One is future, and one is past. But what about present state ?

Found nice quote: "Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities organize around them. ~ Stephen Covey " - its free to ask what are the values of those work force ? Blame the others and thrive on suffering, not doing anything ?

If a feedback is information transferred to knowledge by organization means, and we live in "knowledge economy"* - is it fair to say ask what we could expect from global system ?

At one side we have high unemployment rate, and the other side we have unengaged employee's force which organised in business units do not produce enough value to move economy forward.

On the basis on the simple math - it's not hard to estimate that at one point this will break down.

But from the point of complex non linear mathematics we have to look on the function's around consciousness, as changing that variable we are actually influencing fate of any organized system, be it market or commons orientated.

* "knowledge economy" is the misleading concept of recent time, as two of the most important authors of the post industrial social movements, Daniel Bell and Manuel Castells did not define what the knowledge is.

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2014/03/25/workplace-survey-says-87-of-employees-not-actively-engaged-in-their-jobs/

#carl jung #Conscious and Fate #fate #conscious #stephen covey

Are we morons ? Music Tesla and Cars ... same story new patients...

Just found article on HBR about Tesla direct sales ban (1)...

Author finish it with sentence ... "State governments in Texas, New Jersey and Virginia by intervening in the process are not only retarding the innovative processes at the heart of new business creation, but may also be harming their constituents."

So I assume that somebody who is retarding something could be called retard ? Or not ?

In the Urban Online dictionary it's explained

"A person born with a mental condition and therefore has to work a million times harder to be able to do simple things (such as learn and communicate) that we take for granted. On top of this, a retard will usually suffer a lot of ridicule from society because people fear what they do not understand. The people who choose to make fun of the mental retarded tend to be complete morons and cannot comprehend that these people have feelings and emotions just like anyone else" (2)

So I do not want to make fun of retards, and would just like to remember those organizations which implementing retarding processes that once upon a time RIIA sued 12 years old for downloading music from the Internet (3)

The girls told to media;

"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"

And today the most promising (at least in the view of big guns, or those who funded RIAA, or those who was retarding the innovative processes - to point back on the beginning of the post) revenue stream is streaming services.

From IFPI report (4)

Global recorded music revenues fell by 3.9% to $15bn in 2013, despite income from subscription streaming services like Spotify and Deezer rising sharply.

Maybe we could be happy they learned something - retards are mentally ill, and as dictionary told us in the beginning of the post "million times harder to be able to do simple things such as learn"

And reading IFPI report, this is proof of their mental illness, as they are blaming Japan. I already write on this one (5)

The IFPI blamed a sharp drop in Japan for 2013’s global decline, noting the impact of a 16.7% dip in sales in a country that accounts for more than a fifth of global revenues. If Japan is factored out, global sales dropped by just 0.1% in 2013.

So I assume that main question here we as a society have to approach is how to heal those ill systems who do not want or not understand they are ill. Usually if somebody is ill, then he has to go to hospital, probably to not hurt himself or hurt the somebody in environment.

On the micro level we are still not aware of the problems, what reminds me on the man explaining that his wife is super healthy, just depressive. But looking the numbers cost of $57.5B in 2006 for mental health care in the U.S. equivalent to the cost of cancer care (6 ) we have a serious problem. But what is more important how we approach the mental illnesses of the systems ?

So are we morons who do not have feelings for retards emotions ? Do we make fun of them ? I am not.

But what to do to in a case when somebody is ill and dangerous for environment in which he living, and you do not have possibilities to heal him, or to put him in a hospital ?

references

1. http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/tesla-and-drivers-want-to-know-what-value-do-car-dealerships-add/

2. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=retard

3. http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/09/09/12-year-old-sued-for-music-downloading/

4 (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/music-sales-ifpi-2013-spotify-streaming )

5. http://sergejlugovic.tumblr.com/post/65916630279/technology-or-law )

6. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2011/the-global-cost-of-mental-illness.shtml

#IFPI #tesla cars #music industry

Who owns information about your purchasing habits ?

It's interesting to develop deeper thoughts about CRM systems used by big companies. They invested money in it, but without information about our purchasing behavior in it - they are useless. Are we sharing benefits, as we shared resources (they invested in technology, and we give them information) to produce what ?

To produce engine which help them to generate more profit, know what they could sell us for higher price, trade this information with suppliers squeezing their margins.

It's quite cool when you give something to somebody, and based on your gift, they are taking the money out of your pocket.

So actually their business is not about using material resources they own to produce value, and profit out of it, but they are using our information, to increase the margin from us, customers, but also to decrease margin from suppliers. At the end we pay more expensive food, and food producers making less money, forcing them out of business, opening up the space for "trash" cheap food suppliers, feeding us with unhealthy food. Which makes us more often sick, what influence cost of national health services.

It's really funny ...

#CRM #information #corporations #information economy

New science paradigm ?

In amazing article on Linkedin written by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi, they claimed that actually our genes are not predefined but we could influence them

"The new model, however, portrays a more fluid, dynamic genome that responds quickly, even instantly, to all that we experience, including how you think, feel, speak, and act."

So actually we are those who define it, by constructing our reality and experiencing it. In terms of system view, we could say that paths and direction of emergence of socio technical system we are part of (or wherewe as individuals live) are deeply related to our thoughts and feelings.

Ervin Laszlo in his book You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen's Handbook for Living on Planet Earth address the issues our society is meeting in current years offering two scenarios. One is breakthroughand one is breakdown. Will not discuss the breakdown, but will point on his call in breakthrough scenario, where he is calling for positive thinking.

And as authors pointed out in the article;

"Darwin didn’t know about epigenetics and “soft inheritance”. Otherwise, he may have written a very difference treatise, in which evolution wouldn’t solely result from random gene mutations. Self-directed evolution is the emerging paradigm."

Concluding that;

"Brain and genome maps must be aligned with the fullness of human experience, since what you think, say, and do today shapes your genetic future. "

which leads us to question - how we approach subjective experience from science perspective ?

Do we need new scientific paradigms ?

Read more http://www.tunedbody.com/scientists-finally-show-thoughts-can-cause-specific-molecular-changes-genes/#

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that shows rapid alterations in gene expression within subjects associated with mindfulness meditation practice,” says study author Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“Most interestingly, the changes were observed in genes that are the current targets of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs,” says Perla Kaliman, first author of the article and a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain (IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS), where the molecular analyses were conducted.

#deepak chopra #system view #ervin laszlo

Space and time diminishing towards intangible society

In great book The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich, author amazingly compare two theorist from last century (Benjamine's - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Virilo's Big Optics) , which both lived in different times but come to same conclusion - that actually technology is destroying distance between observer and what he is observing, concluding that we could change material reality over physical distance in real-time.

So its fair to say that Space and Time are diminishing - they are becoming less relevant. But if they are less relevant - what is then relevant ? Or if space and time are not so relevant any more - where we have to focus our thoughts ?

In Lev Manovich in same book writes about object becomes signal. In the same time Castells write that basic unit (lets call it object) becomes network. So both proposed that actually object become something in motion - but at the same time, that motion loosing fundamentals in space and time dimension. So where this is happening then ?

Maybe answer is laying in other half of the object - which is subject, and construction of the reality by subject observing object, or network or signal. But at the same time that subject, if connected to the network is object too - and as we could change physical reality in real-time, and as subject influencing object (or network or signal).

So we are in feedback loop all the time. And talking about we - it's about how we feel or what we experience in such a system of dynamic relationships.

So in a way, how we feel or what we experience give us indications of quality of the system we are involvedwith.

But what is difference between space and time and feel and experience ?

Probably that second two's are intangible, qualitative and subjective. Leading us to conclusion that we are becoming network/signal/information society - we are also going through transfer from society build up ontangibles toward society build up on intangibles....

So, do we then exist at all ?

#Castells #Manovich #spaceandtime #society #tangible #intangible

Technology or Law

In IFPI - Digital Music Report 2013 found this picture. IFPI is claiming that is cause of legal pressure. But it could be argued from another perspective - one from development of Spotify as service, with right price, and right tools to enhance user experience.

Report

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/dmr2013.html

Legal pressure delivered completely opposite results in Japan market, when new law with draconian fines was introduced - what resulted with even more decline in music sales. "Livedoor News reported that the results of a consumer survey show that more than 68% of respondents spend “0 yen” on music in an average month; the highest the figure has been in almost 10 years."

Full article here

#ifpi #digital music #spotify

Weath of Nation

When Adam Smith was writing about Wealth of Nations, globalization was not yet an issue. In today word, we could talk about wealth of "globation" (or one big global nation, world where we all leave). The result of this fundamental book on economics, in term of "globation" is that every day in our dearest "globation" 21,000 people died from hunger.

Putting the word Wealth in Lacan three registers of subjectivity, which are Symbol, Imaginary and Real, question which appear is what is wealth ? Is it Symbol, is it Imaginary or is it Real ?

I decided to ask google about - and here is what he says in pictures; (btw google algorithm is based on measurement of centrality, which evaluate relative importance within a graph. Precisely speaking its based on Eigenvector centrality which measure influence of a node in a network.)

Lacan claims that, "Symbols in fact envelop the life of man in a network so total that they join together, before he comes into the world, those who are going to engender him…" (Language, 42). and "Man speaks therefore, but it is because the symbol has made him man" (39) (from http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/symbolicrealimaginary.htm)

Can we say that such a symbolism made wealth equal above picture ? Or real wealth is something else ? I assume that it's about relations between man and wealth. Cause such relations are real, and we experience them on everyday basis.

One russian proverb says, it's not about money, it's about the quantity of it. Quantity is more real, but relation to it is more abstract, and should be analyzed more carefully.

"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise. " William Blake

Reference to observation

Google pay's you to not work, while on Auschwitz was written "Arbeit Macht Frei" - outputs from those two organizations are quite clear. In recent article in MIT SMR - "Innovation Process Benefits: The Journey as Reward" found this quoute;

"From a macroeconomic perspective, there has long been a fundamental assumption that an activity is labor (which economists assume to be arduous but productive) or leisure (which we think of as enjoyable but unproductive) — but not both at the same time.17 This premise has led directly to the conclusion that when people work less, value creation declines and GDP falls; in other words, society becomes poorer. However, if leisure can be productive, the trade-off is much softer than had been thought. We are in agreement with scholars such as Luis von Ahn, one of the founders of reCAPTCHA, and Clay Shirky, author of the book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, in arguing that substantial amounts of leisure time can indeed be converted to productive use.18"

What I am considering as a interesting and even more radical macroeconomic measure - is what will happen if everybody stop to work for few months. Anyway economy is just creating debts....

For example, few days ago I get hit by thought - aren't will be better that employees of government owned companies, which are creating debts, learn basic massage techniques and give it for free to citizens. Personally thinking that such a rearrangement of labour will benefit better economy and society. Of course, such a rearrangement must be done in a way that basic functions of those companies should stay alive - so its reorganization of labour, not stopping functions which are necessary for society to function.

#macroeconomics #mit smr #captcha #cognitive surplus

Self organizing and relevance of feedback in business

Recently found this picture on Linkedin - i think it well explain self organizing concept - what is even more interesting is role of feedback in business - as we could have it almost immediately with available technologies - is then organization part of complex system (here is how he looks on it -Ashby, W. Ross, An Introduction to Cybernetics, Chapman & Hall ltd, 1957, London (page 54) and how it could be managed ? If organization is part of the system, why we spend so much time learning about organization instead of system ? (thankfully more and more global system sustainability discussion are developed)

Maybe we could say that area with irreversible processes are dealing, are ones which actually take care to egg do not become broken from outside. And reversible processes are those who take care of homeostatic state of the organization.

#Ashby W. Ross #cybernetics #self-organization #business organization

Niklas Luhmann

Luhmann wrote prolifically, with more than 70 books and nearly 400 scholarly articles published on a variety of subjects, including law, economy, politics, art, religion, ecology, mass media, and love. While his theories have yet to make a major mark in American sociology, his theory is currently well known and popular in German sociology[citation needed], and has also been rather intensively received inJapan and Eastern Europe, includingRussia. His relatively low profile elsewhere is partly due to the fact that translating his work is a difficult task, since his writing presents a challenge even to readers of German, including many sociologists. (p. xxvii Social System 1995)

Much of Luhmann's work directly deals with the operations of the legal system and his autopoietic theory of law is regarded as one of the more influential contributions to the sociology of law and socio-legal studies.[4]

Luhmann is probably best known to North Americans for his debate with the critical theorist Jürgen Habermas over the potential of social systems theory. Like his one-time mentor Talcott Parsons, Luhmann is an advocate of "grand theory," although neither in the sense of philosophical foundationalism nor in the sense of "meta-narrative" as often invoked in the critical works of post-modernist writers. Rather, Luhmann's work tracks closer to complexity theory broadly speaking, in that it aims to address any aspect of social life within a universal theoretical framework - of which the diversity of subjects he wrote about is an indication. Luhmann's theory is generally considered[citation needed] highly abstract, and his publications are difficult to read. This fact, along with the somewhat elitist behaviour of some of his disciples and the supposed[citation needed] political conservatism implicit in his theory, has made Luhmann a controversial figure in sociology.

A major critique of Luhmann is found in Piyush Mathur's detailed exegesis (2006) of one of Luhmann's treatises in an American journal.[5] Luhmann himself described his theory as "labyrinth-like" or "non-linear" and claimed he was deliberately keeping his prose enigmatic to prevent it from being understood "too quickly", which would only produce simplistic misunderstandings.[6] The influence of Gregory Bateson and Jurgen Ruesch on Luhmann has been discussed by Piyush Mathur in an April 2008 article titled Gregory Bateson, Niklas Luhmann, and Ecological Communication.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann

History of money documentary

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World

http://www.niallferguson.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xx_5PuLIzc

Five Capitals by Forum for the Future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Capitals

The Five Capitals Model of sustainable development was developed by the organization Forum for the Future. The model groups together:

Natural capital

Social capital

Human capital

Manufactured capital

Financial capital

The model is used to show stocks and flows of resources as they relate to asustainable society and economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory

Integral economics

Integral economics is a ‘paradigmatic’ methodology emanating from integral thought and theory as it translates to economics. This 'new' praxis offers a structural framework for addressing and resolving problems the Integral Institutehas associated in their Mission with “evolutionary forms of capitalism; and the culture wars in political, religious, and scientific domains”. These efforts are thus affording "theorists and developmental psychologists a needed and useful early look at the formal, dynamic process by which the evolution of higher-order development proceeds" in relation to an integral model.[23]

http://www.kevinjamesbowman.com/Publications_

Kevin J. Bowman Integral Neoclassical Economic Growth

paper @

ASSESSING KNOWLEDGE ASSETS: A Review of the Models Used to Measure Intellectual Capital Dr. Nick Bontis, Ph.D.

This paper reviews the literature pertaining to the assessment of knowledge assets. Since knowledge assets are at the crux of sustainable competitive advantage, the burgeoning field of intellectual capital is an exciting area for both researchers and practitioners. Unfortunately, the measurement of such intangible assets is difficult. A variety of models have surfaced in an attempt to measure IC and this paper aims to highlight their strengths, weaknesses and operationalizations

http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/mktg/nbontis/ic/publications/bontisijmr.pdf

What Does Lacan Say About… The Signifier?

“That there are in the unconscious signifying chains which subsist as such, and which from there structure, act on the organism, influence what appears from the outside as a symptom, this is the whole basis of analytic experience” (Seminar V, 21.05.58., p.7).

http://www.lacanonline.com/index/2010/06/what-does-lacan-say-about-the-signifier/

Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs

Zbigniew Michalewicz

2 Reviews

Springer, 1996 - Mathematics - 387 pages

Genetic algorithms are founded upon the principle of evolution, i.e., survival of the fittest. Hence evolution programming techniques, based on genetic algorithms, are applicable to many hard optimization problems, such as optimization of functions with linear and nonlinear constraints, the traveling salesman problem, and problems of scheduling, partitioning, and control. The importance of these techniques is still growing, since evolution programs are parallel in nature, and parallelism is one of the most promising directions in computer science. The aim of this book is to talk about the field of evolutionary computation in simple terms, and discuss the simplicity and elegance of its methods on many interesting test cases. The book may serve as a guide to writing an evolution program, and to making this an enjoyable experience. It is self-contained and the only prerequisite is basic undergraduate mathematics. Aimed at researchers, practitioners, and graduate students, it may serve as a text for advanced courses in computer science and artificial intelligence, operations research, and engineering. This third edition has been substantially revised and extended. Three new chapters discuss the recent paradigm of genetic programming, heuristic methods and constraint handling, and current directions of research. Additional appendices contain test functions for experiments with evolutionary techniques and discuss possible projects for use in a project-oriented course.

http://books.google.hr/books/about/Genetic_Algorithms_+_Data_Structures_Evo.html?id=vlhLAobsK68C&redir_esc=y

Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web

Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies.

This is the website of the Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP), an international organization. The Project aims to develop a complete philosophy or "world-view", based on the principles ofevolutionary cybernetics, and supported by collaborative computer technologies. To get started, there is an introduction with background and motivation, and an overview, summarizing the project as a whole.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DEFAULT.html

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