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

Fri Jul 29 16:06:30 CEST 2011

thank you Nancy, I excerpted this here and will present his ideas on our
blog on august 3,

http://p2pfoundation.net/Alignment ; http://p2pfoundation.net/Ideosphere

Michel

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Nancy Roof <nancy at kosmosjournal.org> wrote:

>  Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is well known to *Kosmos Journal*. We published an
> article in the Spring 2005 issue on “Kosmic Alignment” written by Yasuhiko.
> See Attached.
>
> Nancy Roof, Ph.D.
> Founder|Editor Kosmos Journal
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> *From: *Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
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> *Date: *Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:51:20 +0700
> *To: *soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> *Cc: *p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation at lists.ourproject.org>
> *Subject: *[P2P-F] transforming human culture and the ideosphere through
> collective intellectuality
>
>
> 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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