[P2P-F] transforming human culture and the ideosphere through collective intellectuality

[Michel Bauwens]

This relates to our discussion on the collective individual in Empyre this
week.

One of the ways I have conceived of the p2p foundation platform is through a
process of 'opportunistic updating' using the whole web as a source. In
other words, I'm presupposing that there is a collective wisdom out there,
but that it is insufficiently connected or aware of each other, and that
bringing this together in a platform as a curator, can create more of a
collective self-awareness, a recognition of commonality, mutuality and
complementarity, and hence, an increased mutual alignment where non
necessiraly existed before.

This assumes that there is no center that 'knows the truth'.

I find this idea well expressed by Kimura here below. I found this today and
know nothing else of this (Japanese?) thinker, but it resonates with my own
efforts:

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura:

"For the locus of thinking is within the individual. It is not the
collective but the individual composing the collective that alone can think
and generate ideas. The ideospheric transformation of the kind I speak is a
synergetic phenomenon that emerges when individuals in sufficient numbers
become authentic, independent thinkers, that is, originators of ideas,
producers of dialogues, and contributors to the network of conversations
that comprises the world."


The configuration of the ideosphere throughout history has remained
concentric with external authorities at the center surrounded by circles of
believers and followers, where an authority did the thinking for its
followers. Even today, in the scientifically and technologically advanced
Western world, our educational system is, for the most part, designed to
produce well informed, intellectually-adept, and professionally-marketable
non-thinking adults. Thus the philosopher Martin Heidegger states: 'The most
thought-provoking thing in this most thought provoking time is that we are
still not thinking.' For, authentic thinking requires self authorship, which
in turn requires authentic self-knowledge about which our education is
utterly silent."


In following the evolutionary thrust for optimization that is driving our
collective transformation toward an unprecedented height of culture and
civilization, the ideospheric configuration we require for the 21st century
is omnicentric, having independent yet interconnected centers within the
intellectually and spiritually sovereign individuals, living and working as
self-authorities in the matter of thinking, knowing, and acting. Then, the
thinking, knowing, and acting of these authentic individuals will
synergetically co-develop throughout the omnicentric configuration of the
evolving ideosphere. The Information Revolution that is underway with the
omnipresent Internet is simultaneously the manifestation of, and the
apparatus for, this new omnicentric configuration of the ideosphere."


Thus, the transformation of the ideosphere does not mean the propagation of
any particular set of ideas. Rather, it is the transformation of the
configuration of the ideosphere itself from concentricity to omnicentricity
in which every individual will engage in authentic, independent thinking in
synergy with others."


We human beings are at our best not when we are engaged in abstract solitary
reflection or on our individual transformation for its own sake but when we
are engaged together in the act of transforming the world. The act of
idea-generation through authentic thinking and the sustained engagement in
the conversation of humankind, if conducted in the context of pursuit of
truth, beauty, and goodness, will lead to powerful moral action that will
engender a New World. To engage in such moral action and to become a
co-creator of a New World is to become a world-weaver in the act of weaving
the world and a history-maker in the act of making history."


There is no complete individual transformation apart from real world
transformation. For the individual is the whole world; for the individual is
the whole of humanity." (
http://wakeupdream.blogspot.com/2011/07/kosmic-alignment-principal-of-global.html)



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