–From WIKINOMICS through AUTOGNOMICS to WIKIGNOMICS—

MINDING HUMAN CULTURE AS A WHOLE

At the core of every cultural tradition is a story which attempts to integrate ideas about ultimate existence (cosmology) with ideas about which experiences ultimately matter (morality). When these stories appear intellectually implausible and/or morally irrelevant, within or between cultures, they render culture generally vulnerable to crisis. There is now a critical need on a global scale for constructing a new and unique Story, a global ‘mythology’, of Human Culture as Whole(Ness). The central challenge of the twenty-first century will be to integrate an evolutionary cosmology with an ecocentric morality recognizing the universal tension between Truth by Adapting Presumed Beliefs to Experience versus Truth by Adapting Experience to Presumed Beliefs. Such a story seems to be forming around the Epic of CoCreative CosmiChaotic (R)Evolution emerging from the necessarily irreducible interrelation of the Analytical (Inquiry and Inference) and Intuitive modes of consciousness as MIND.

The drive to Inquire, being the natural state of the Individual Human Mind, will generally sustain the individual unless blocked by other’s acts. This is not to dismiss the constant presence of unforeseen acts of “nature” which can circumstantially render a person ineffective if not dead. But, in order to learn one must continue as an individual to desire to learn. Yet, the history of the evolution of human forms of collective organization, from group to community to society and state, evidences a tendency of the collective form, at whatever level, to emerge as a system with centralized control of its parts, i.e. the people as individuals. This is true throughout the range of forms of the controller from individual or small group dictatorships through specialist managers to the rule of the majority. The result is that the process of inquiry favors the collective need at the expense of the individual’s self-determination with a resulting diminution of self-motivation. Recognizing also, however, that organisms of most, if not all forms, have increased chances of survival through cooperation in collectives, Humanity with its current philosophy of centralized control in collective organization faces the zero-sum dilemma of a choice between individual autonomy vs. collective integrity. The resolution of the dilemma requires we look beyond the notion of a collective system to that of a System-As-Whole.

The last half of the 20th century evidenced a growing unrest with our present conceptualizations of experience, in particular, in socio-economic-political organization. This trend is now rapidly approaching a crisis point which will necessitate a major shift in world view. The emerging paradigm is one in which the universe in all of its parts is viewed as a super hologram. The unifying feature is the concept of The Whole as a relational form which presences in each and every part— i.e. where thinking as a part and acting as the whole IS thinking as the whole and acting as a part.

Not surprisingly, one of the most significant remaining unmined potentials is in the rich base of human, social, relational and intellectual capital to be found in small (including from one up to a small handful of entrepreneurial persons) to medium size enterprises. A strong and independent small enterprise system disperses economic power, localizes economic decision-making, and protects the potential for voluntary cooperative organization.

THE NEED in order to effectively engage this resource is for new processes and technologies for improving personal and organizational effectiveness in “Knowledge Development” implemented through an organizational and management architecture respecting autonomy throughout its hierarchical and heterarchical levels by effecting co-intelligence in a cognitive network for Rational Collective Decision Making to support and extend Individual Innovation. THE SOLUTION is an Intelligized Wikinomics via a Cognitive Network of AutoGnomes, i.e. a CogWeb or WIKIGNOME.

IT IS TO LEAD THIS EFFORT THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF
THE WORLD FUTURES INSTITUTE

WIKINOMICS-

A NEW ART AND SCIENCE OF COLLABORATION

[This section is edited by condensation from Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Published by Portfolio, 2006]

Throughout history corporations have organized themselves according to strict hierarchical lines of authority. There was always someone or some company in control. While hierarchies are not vanishing, profound changes in the nature of technology, demographics, and the global economy are giving rise to powerful new models based on community, collaboration, and self-organization rather than on hierarchy and control.

Millions now use blogs, wikis, chat rooms, and personal broadcasting to add their voices to a vociferous stream of dialogue and debate called the “blogosphere.” Employees drive performance by collaborating with peers across organizational boundaries, creating what we call a “wiki workplace.” Customers become “prosumers” by cocreating goods and services rather than simply consuming the end product.

Smart companies are encouraging, rather than fighting, the heaving growth of massive online communities—many of which emerged from the fringes of the Web to attract tens of millions of participants overnight such as MySpace, InnoCentive, flickr, Second Life, YouTube, and the Human Genome Project. Indeed, as a growing number of firms see the benefits of mass collaboration, this new of way organizing will eventually displace the traditional corporate structures as the economy’s primary engine of wealth creation. Already this new economic model extends to virtually every part of the global economy.

The conclusion from all of this is striking and enormously positive. Billions of connected individuals can now actively participate in innovation, wealth creation, and social development in ways we once only dreamed of. And when these masses of people collaborate they collectively can advance the arts, culture, science, education, government, and the economy in surprising but ultimately profitable ways. Companies that engage with these exploding Web-enabled communities are already discovering the true dividends of collective capability and genius.

To succeed, it will not be sufficient to simply intensify existing management strategies. Leaders must think differently about how to compete and be profitable, and embrace a new art and science of collaboration we call Wikinomics. This is more than open source, social networking, so called crowd sourcing, smart mobs, crowd wisdom, or other ideas that touch upon the subject. Rather, we are talking about deep changes in the structure and modus operandi of the corporation and our economy, based on new competitive principles such as openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally.

AUTOGNOMICS-

A SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO SYNTHESIZING INTELLIGENCE/MIND
FOR ENABLING HUMAN INNOVATION

• In the process of material/energetic evolution, the origin of sign (=image) is posited to be a necessary and (possibly) sufficient condition for the evolutionary origin of life.
• The greatest innovation in the history of human life experience, i.e. language (a sign system), provided the foundation on which all future progress of human culture/society would be built.
• The communication of experience, this being the crux of societal systems, rests in-and-on language or, more generally signs (for Systems or Relations) which are acknowledged to be the essence of mind (recognizing the “carrier” role of the brain).
• The problem of understanding mind is assumed to be first (since understanding per se is a function of mind, it follows that the very process of understanding itself can be enhanced by first understanding mind, particularly in its synthetic extension, the AutoGnome(tm) among three of the great cosmic mysteries—the “origin”, nature and evolution of the Universe, the “origin”, nature and evolution of Life and the “origin”, nature and evolution of Mind.
• Not only is what we can think constrained by the languages (signs) we use, language use itself requires a different logic for inquiry vs. inference vs. intuition. This consideration is inherent to the applied multicorelational premise regarding synthetic mind.
• We are in the midst of sweeping global economic and social transformations (the blogosphere and wiki workplace) where creativity has replaced physical labor and large-scale bureaucracy as the key source of community and economic growth. We face an information-based, chaotically changing environment in which success depends on the superiority of continually accelerated Wikinomic Innovation.
• Synthetic (Virtual) Intelligence/Mind is also the essence of virtuality (an autonomous semiotic universe (the cyberverse) in which information (signification) is transferable (communicatable) only among virtual minds); thus Virtuality is Related to (Human) Reality through the Virtual Reality of the Web.
• It is rapidly becoming evident to key decision makers that this demand for accelerating wikinomic innovation is only possible through evolving Synthetic Intelligence (SI) which has the potential to impact every aspect of human life. The problem/dilemma for SI developers is that there is no standard, workable theory of mind.
• It is the provision of this latter (the standard) that is the intent of our current development of the AutoGnome as Synthetic Intelligence/Mind and it is believed that we are in a five year window (2008-2013) as the critical time during which the three or so industry leaders will emerge as forging the standard for this Virtual Universe populated by Synthetic Intelligences/Synthetic Minds.

WIKIGNOMICS(tm)

INTELLIGIZING WIKINOMICS VIA A COGNITIVE NETWORK OF AUTOGNOMES

Semiotic Relational Systems
A Semiotic Relational System is a system of relations exhaustively admitting all forms of interrelatedness among systems and/or relations and with certain systems or relations (called signs) taking the place of (i.e. imaging (signifying)) other systems or relations to a specific mind.

AutoGnome
The AutoGnome is a self-knowing general purpose software system of automated (autonomous) inquiry, inference and intuition exploiting a mechanized carrier system for relational semiosis as a virtual (synthetic) mind.

Intellisite

 The Intellisite(tm) (an Intelligent WebSite) is a constructed software environment (a Website) with an embedded form of the AutoGnome known as a WebGnome(tm), an intelligent agent residing in this cyberspace environment which, with its continuous adaptive learning from mimicking the user’s behavior, will grow into a likeminded replica (MindClone(tm)) of a user-self acting in the Virtual Reality of the Internet with the synthetic mind capabilities of the AutoGnome.

CoGnome

The CoGnome(tm) is a selected WebGnome which, inter-connecting two or more Intellisites in a Network of Intellisites, provides a computerized collective intelligence, an automated co-intelligence, i.e. the Collective-AutoGnome (Auto(Co)Gnome) or simply the CoGnome.

CogWeb
The CogWeb(tm) is the Network of Intellisites implemening the CoGnome for Network Decision-Making by autonomously formed Intellisite-defined groups, organizations, communities and societies, i.e. a WIKIGNOME.

NULLIFYING THIS PARADOX VIA “MULTICORELATIONAL SYSTEMS THEORY”

Within R.Elated’s (The AHA!Institute) Foundations Purpose of introducing the historically missing Formalization of MultiCoRelational Forms (Multi=multiple; Co=interrelated) into the Sign/Communication (Semiotic) Systems of Humanity and Ai3’s related Mission of MINDing the World through Technology, the overarching long term Strategy of Re-Creating A Virtual Universe as a MultiCoRelational WHOLE begins with the creation of Synthetic Intelligences enroute to a Synthetic Mind based on a Formal Theory of MultiCoRelational Semiotic Systems. This encompasses a formal algebra/logic of semiosis (currently termed AutoGnomics) and a theory of probable decision making including a generalized probabilistic optimization principal (now called GnosTeks), all functioning on a triadic continuum computer data recording structure (Knowledge Store or KStore or K). As a descriptor place-holder, this is tentatively referred to as an “AutoGnomic (Self-knowing)/GnosTek (Knowledge Technology) with a Knowledge Store (Store)”, or AG/GnosTeks with a KStore.

[Thinking is a process of relating relations—for both C.S.Peirce and H.W.Maturana]

The Plan is to develop the Mind Technologies and efforts needed to move from the current (2008) State of Humanity to the Singularity; that is, to the point of realization of the technological creation of a smarter-than-human intelligence. The methodology invoked by AHA/Ai3 envisions an Open Participation Institute for Fundamental SynMind Research and Development with periodic Proprietary Commercial Rollouts of Limited SynIntelligence Applications which will evolve to the point of a self-improving Synthetic Intelligence that will successfully enhance itself to the level where it can decide what to do next. The means to this end will require the Collaborative Networking of any and all voices willing to participate in developing the philosophical and formal principles, theoretical paradigms, technology architecture, and applications components needed to build a complete Mind possessed of general intelligence, capable of self-understanding, self- modification, and recursive self-enhancement.

RADICAL RELATIONISM, A POST-MODERN PARADIGM FOR COMPUTERS

The paradigm of the classical subject-object dichotomy, where static objects (reducible to atoms) are connected by relations, is increasingly being challenged today in philosophy, physics, and biology by a new paradigm. It describes the world as a flux of pure relations, where objects emerge only as dynamic stabilities. The input-output model as information theory’s version of the object paradigm up to now was the very foundation of computer science and its separation of data and code. In view of the new paradigm technical developments, computer science now also becomes affected by ‘radical relationism’, which does not record or process any data in the traditional (static) sense, but only generates data dynamically from a pure relation space, like computer generated images of a video game. [edited from Peter Krieg]

INITIATING NOTES -JRH

“Imagining the Future of Leadership and/or Leading the Imagining of the Future”

Edited/Interpreted by JRH (3-12-9/4-4-9) from
TRIBAL LEADERSHIP by Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright
retrieved on 4-4-9 from
http://triballeadership.net/book.php
and
THE THREE LAWS OF PERFORMANCE by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
retrieved on 3-12-9 from the blog of Michael F. Martin, February 16, 2009, at
http://brokensymmetry.typepad.com/broken_symmetry/2009/02/the-three-laws-of-performance-by-zaffron-and-logan.html

Tribal Leadership presents the thesis that the health of organizations correlates with growth in the average number of connections between members of the organization over time.
“Every company, indeed, every organization, is a tribe, or if it’s large enough, a network of tribes—groups of twenty to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else. Tribes are more powerful than teams, companies, or even CEOs, and yet their key leverage points have not been mapped—until now.

In a rigorous ten-year study of approximately 24,000 people in more than two dozen corporations, Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright refine and define a common theme: the success of a company depends on its tribes, the strength of its tribes is determined by the tribal culture, and a thriving corporate culture can be established by an effective tribal leader.

Tribal Leadership shows leaders how to assess their organization’s tribal culture on a scale from one to five and then implement specific tools to elevate the stage to the next.”

The Three Laws of Performance provides a list of rules (and stories explaining how they work in practice) that promise to help individuals in leadership roles facilitate the group coherence and cohesion that are necessary to bring about transcendent performance.

“The power in this book stems from using the Three Laws of Performance. A law isn’t a rule, tip, or step, but distinguishes the moving parts at play behind an observable phenomenon. A law is invariable. Whether you believe in gravity or not doesn’t lessen its effect on you.
The greatest advances in history have come from applying newly discovered laws. Think of Newton’s three laws of physics. Each on its own is interesting and insightful, and when combined together and applied, they become powerful and predictive.
When the Three Laws in this book are applied, performance transforms to a level far beyond what most people think is possible. It doesn’t happen bit by bit, but all at once, as individuals and organizations rewrite their future.” Retrieved on 3-12-9 from
http://www.threelawsofperformance.com/transformational_leadership_excerpt.jsp

Both of these books promote a systems model for explaining individual and group performance. According to the systems model, there is no particular habit or activity that will guarantee an individual who practices it better performance or more creativity. The reason for this is that whereas an individual produces the performance or creative work, the work must then be evaluated and accepted by the field of experts for the symbolic domain of the performance before it can become a part of that domain. In other words, transcendent performances (including creative works and the accomplishment of challenging business goals) require collaboration between individuals and groups. Growth (or decay) results as groups and the individuals who constitute them evolve to tackle successively more complex goals.

The First Law Of Performance holds that how people perform correlates to how situations “occur” to them.
So what exactly does occur mean? We mean something beyond perception and subjective experience. We mean the reality that arises within and from your perspective on the situation. In fact, your perspective is itself part of the way in which the world occurs to you. “How a situation occurs” includes your view of the past (why things are the way they are) and the future (where all this is going).”

Roger Penrose’s Road to Reality:

This image from Penrose recalls the Triad of C. S. Pierce, a core structure of the AutoGnome(TM) and a precursor of the MultiCoRelational Systems of J. R. Hamann emphasizing the
TriRelational Form

in Synthesizing Mind as the Pre-eminent First of the The 7SYNs: Strategic Viewpoints of Possible Relational Futures {Re-Creating the Universe Virtually}: see
http://relatedone.blogspot.com/

[The use of circles and lines in this drawing represent systems and relations, respectively, whereas the oblong figure can represent either]
So should seeing things this way make any difference in how we act?
The answer is yes because as Werner Erhard knew well, it is possible to change the loop by convincing individuals to change how they understand their past and forecast their future, especially as it relates to others within the group. As the Author’s Note makes clear, part of the intellectual history of this book is derived from the knowledge and experience of people who worked with Erhard in the est seminars popular several decades ago. Incidentally, that inheritance might also explain the willingness to leave some terminology inscrutable. Part of the ethics of est seems to have involved challenging the audience to engage with the teaching intellectually — a practice best exemplified by Socrates and worst exemplified by Heidegger, both of whom might also be considered antecedents to this sort of philosophy.
The remaining two laws basically spell out a prescription for how to implement transformational change within an organization given that the systems model applies.

The Second Law Of Performance holds that “how a situation occurs arises in language.”
This is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is now an accepted fact at least among cognitive psychologists.

The Third Law Of Performance holds that “future based language transforms how situations occur to people.”
In other words, when enough individuals working within a domain decide to change the domain, then the domain and hence the activities of the individuals and groups that constitute it will shift into a different mode of operating. What is perhaps less intuitive is the fact that such shifts may occur voluntarily when enough individuals agree to make them happen. That’s another reason why this book should be read in conjunction with Tribal Leadership.

ENVISIONING LEADERSHIP: Imagining the Future of Leadership and/or Leading the Imagining of the Future
The foregoing laws might be summarized simply as follows: The 1st – “How a situation occurs” assumes a TriRelational Form; The 2nd – The Form is a TriRelational Semiotic (language) System; The 3rd – A TriRelational Semiotic Envisioning Act Transforms “How a situation occurs” in the 1st Law.

The Mission is to form an environment in which an Envisioning Act might Transform “How a situation occurs” as an enabling act for individuals to personally recognize how to Envision Leadership in Intelligizing the Three Laws of Performance through the VirtualMind (IntelliSite) Development Hierarchy as per the following:

“You Can’t Direct the Wind but You Can Adjust the Sails”

German Proverb

AG/GNOSTEKS

R.Elated. Personal Experience Is The Existence Of Relational Systems. By Presumption, This Is The Essence Of Existence (Nonexistence) Beyond The Personal. From this foundation along with the presumption of the notions of Subsumption (implying Distinction) and Image (implying Sign), MultiCoRelationalism was formed in 1963. As a derivative thereof, the form of a theory of theory formation with an inherent FORM requiring Order, DisOrder and ReOrdering MutiCoRelations was promulgated as a candidate for a Theory of Mind and its technological instantiation as Synthetic Mind, now referred to collectively as AG/Gnosteks with the product being the AutoGnome.

THE FORM OF THE ORDER RELATIONS

By trans(re)lating the substance of the following book into MultiCoRelational form, one has a rudimentary map for guiding the formulation and application of AG/Gnosteks.

Laws of Form (LoF) is a book by George Spencer-Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and philosophy. The mathematics fills only about 55pp, but its prose is mystical, declamatory and paradoxical. Spencer-Brown was influenced by Wittgenstein, R. D. Laing, Charles Sanders Peirce, Bertrand Russell, and Alfred North Whitehead. Ostensibly a work of formal mathematics and philosophy, embodying an enigmatic “mathematics of consciousness,” its algebraic symbolism captured an (perhaps even the) implicit root of cognition: the ability to distinguish. [Edited by JRH (perhaps beyond recognition) from text retrieved 2/17/9 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form#cite_note-5 ]

Beginning with the Void (i.e. No-Thing real or signatory), LoF directs one to MAKE (Draw) A MARK (Sign) (of distinction). With this act, a Universe is created (“In the beginning was the word (sign)”). LAWS OF FORM (LOF designating the movement evolving from the book, LoF ) reveals striking connections among logic, mathematics, the foundations of science and the philosophy of language and Mind, indeed of the “origin”, nature and evolution of the Universe. From the most fundamental foundations notions to the most intricate application, this MultiCoRelational re-vision of Humanity’s World View is without historical precedent or current competitors.

Ai3’s PARADOX

Despite the uniqueness and novelty, as suggested above, engendered by this MultiCoRelational foundation for our AutoGnomic products (generally realized as an IntelliSite incorporating a Search Engine coupled to a TriCoRelational Data Storage Engine (Phaneron)) and recognizing our empathic synergy with the philosophy of discovery as expressed by Spencer-Brown (see the following page) as regards our Research, Technology and Product Development, it seems paradoxical that our marketing focus should be largely confined to the zero-sum game of capturing market share against the competition in a fixed level consumer-resource economy.

WHAT IF we were to begin with a Market Void and MAKE A MARK (of distinction) thus creating our own Consumer-Universe via the added value of the creative/productive acts of each human by way of their enhanced performance due to the uploading of Ai3’s Synthetic Intelligence/Mind. WHAT IF we had 7 billion potential partners/consumers and were the sole provider of the products/services!

The following quotation is taken from Appendix 1 to the

LAWS OF FORM.

“Discoveries of any great moment in mathematics and other disciplines, once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence of the world is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a condition to be either proud or ashamed of.

Unfortunately, we find systems of education today which have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one’s ignorance.

To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of his great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation.

In the face of the strong, and indeed violent, social pressures against it, few people have been prepared to take this simple and satisfying course towards sanity. And in a society where a prominent psychiatrist can advertise that given the chance, he would have treated Newton to electric shock therapy, who can blame any person for being afraid to do so?

To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation [R.Elated-ed. Note–focusing of attention]. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in MIND what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set about it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are being continually thrust upon them.

In these circumstances, the discoveries that any person is able to undertake represent the places where, in the face of induced psychosis, he has by his own faltering and unaided efforts, returned to sanity. Painfully, and even dangerously, maybe. But nonetheless returned, however furtively.”

Here’s the product:

1. TruewikiThinker [TwikiT] (TrueThinker.com with web-page builder, bulletin board and Community Builder (CB) for event participants (EPs))
2. Initiating (seed) MyCommunityKnowledgeBank [MCKB] for particular TTECs (Web-based registration profile for EPs to identify who they are and what interests they have in the Event)
3. Hosting of the product that includes disk space for EPs.

Here’s how it works:

• An EP logs into the Parent TTEC site, fills out a profile and is automatically given a web page (with unique auto-generated URL) and a beginning MCKB. The EP can then easily access the TwikiT (point and click) and edit the website (add, delete, change) as personally deemed relevant. This unique web-identity becomes the EP’s autonomous MindClone (Vitual EP (VEP)) with respect to the Event.
• Periodically, the VEP is “pushed” information/knowledge (content that is relevant) by the Event Management (EM). It’s placed in the same database as the specific VEP’s MCKB resources.
• Thus the VEP continuously builds its EP Clone’s MCKB and further invites other VEPs to share these resources thus forming embryonic communities.
• Most critically, however, the CB functionality of the Parent TTEC site continuously screens the independent VEP’s resources for “similarities”, autonomously forms Virtual Communities based on these similar features and communicates information to each VEP/EP member.

Here’s the business model:

• Subscription-based; Market directly to EPs and to EMs.

Here’s the market:

• All EP’s.