God's Fingerprints
God’s Fingerprints:
Using Reflexive praxis to identify underlying social neg-entropic patterns
in our Wriggling Universe
Paul Wildman, PhD & Iona Miller
Using Reflexive praxis to identify underlying social neg-entropic patterns
in our Wriggling Universe
Paul Wildman, PhD & Iona Miller
This article seeks to identify the deep patterns we have found in our work individually and jointly over the past decade. We call these ‘the fingerprints of God’. To do this, in mid-2012, we applied Reflexive Praxis individually and then jointly to our work over the past three decades that is in total 60 years of praxis.
Reflexive praxis is a method of social research that has been developed progressively in Scientific God Journal through our series of five articles this year. These articles are listed at the beginning of the References section below.
Keywords: Reflexive Praxis, God’s fingerprints, DIY, Prepper, entropy, neg-entropy, glocalisation, wriggling universe, artificer, pattern recognition, kinesthetics, archaic renaissance, hands-on approach, visceral comprehension
Introduction
In this article we seek to identify the underlying our ‘ur-pattern’ as common patterns in our day to day behaviour and apparently unrelated practices. We provisionally call them our cosmic principles or Gods fingerprints as they represent, we submit, ways in which the Universe/Cosmos/God seeks to create neg-entropy especially from a social perspective. Further we see them as an essential underlying pattern[1]on which specific activities, callings and so forth are based – they can be seen as ‘ur-patterns’ after the German ‘ur’ for primal and archetypal, primeval even prime’itive and sauvage. Bloom (2012:227).
Pattern recognition is a primary characteristic and survival tool of human consciousness and behaviour. This then has been our Reflexive Praxis quest for these hidden or archetypal patterns. This quest that would be futile in a purely random Universe comprised of incoherence and non-resonance, as there would be no patterns. So in some regards our quest will be ‘our folly house’.
In this article we submit that these patterns emerge from what we call ‘muscular or hand knowledge’ i.e. our praxis. Others such as Bloom (2012:373, 378, 408, 554) refer to such prime’itive experiential knowledge as ‘visceral comprehension’ however such a hands on, gut level; approach to knowledge is vilified by our present systems of learning. Yet such knowledge was invaluable to Einstein for instance who imagined what it was like ‘running after a ray of light’ and catching up with it.
Possibly these could be patterns inherent in a Universe that creates itself and thus patterns relevant to it as it seeks to generate order and its associated neg-entropy creations. Consequently we believe they point to a process or broad and deep reason, whereby we can become more fully human without becoming trans or post human.
These ‘ur patterns’ are not ‘our patterns’ we see them as ‘(y)o(ur) patterns’. Nor are these the only, or even best, ways of expressing them. And some praxisers will argue for 14 or 10 or other patterns - OK. These though emerge from our grounded work of the past three decades and as such, we suggest, may link or resonate with that found by other praxisers and as such may prove fruitful in our ongoing praxis, as well as warranting some further attention and indeed application.
FingerPrints identified in our application of Reflexive Praxis
Deep structures identified by the authors through our application of the Reflexive Praxis methodology in terms of our individual and joint professional works over the past decade are as follows. We believe that in combination these factors can enable what may be called social synergy even social neg-entropy. We call this an ‘Archaic Renaissance’:
FP1 Resonance – rhythm, inner, inner ↔ outer harmony and outer harmony e.g. that of the spheres, empathy, resiliency plus, entrainment, mathos ∞ mythos
FP2 Patterns that connect - deep process, forward and back in time, vertical and horizontal resonance/interface between components in a system, we then are pattern carriers within the wriggling pattern that is our Universe
FP3 As above so below, as in so out - we are all star stuff - cosmic pulse fractal recursion, interpenetration of the sublime and the mundane, inner outer resonance
FP4 Chiro drives Cogno – hands on approach to growth and development also known as visceral comprehension – the prominence of praxis and the ‘hand crafted life’, becoming fully human before we become trans human or post human. Hand, Heart & Head I act reflexively therefore I am.
FP5 Myth ∞ Math are ISO’s (Isomorphic Symbol Sets) linked by metaphor, mathos ∞ mythos
FP6 Glocality rocks – for ecol/socio/econ development, waste minimisation via. repair and reuse and repair not recycling, global-local problematique, local solutions, applied ingenuity. Bottom Up ↔ Top Down resonance. In all glocalisation is a ‘nutrient gel’ for innovation creativity and evolution
FP7 Re-membering history - wisdom in our futures passed/past so as to learn our lessons and not to repeat the bad bits – social holon - re-member Auschwitz. This then is an authentic archaic renaissance which starts by seeing the present Global Problematique as an act of re-membering
FP8 Harmonising diversity rather than centralising conformity - biomimesis and biomemesis, systems design, alternative to hierarchy
FP9 Doula[2] Stewardship of all, for all, with all, by all- Doula’ing then stewardship of new proposals, praxis and projects for creative evolvability (resonant sustainability), we then are the doulas/bearers of archaic patterns or maybe it is them who sustain us
FP10 Nurturing neg-entropy while respecting entropy[3]
FP11 De novo - new stuff can happen
FP12 Evolution is learning and vice versa: Survival of the weakest even the outcast – the scruffiest, the group living between the worlds/habitats that are more able to adapt to both, rather than the supremely well adapted group living in the core community through the fabrication of exemplar projects that demonstrate today a better world is possible tomorrow.
Next we explore social neg-entropy in the link between these Fingerprints and socio-economics, as it is commonly understood to do with financial markets and globalisation of production, and the second law of thermodynamics.
[1] Emergent from our DUF field as developed in the first article in this series Miller and Wildman (2012a). DUF – Demiurgic Field (of manifesting form).
[2] The Doula is the midwives' midwife she holds the space for the midwife to help the mother deliver her baby. Oftentimes this would be the wives mother.
[3] In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger used the concept of ‘negative entropy’ in his popular-science book What is life? Later, Léon Brillouin shortened the expression to a single word, negentropy. Schrödinger introduced the concept when explaining that a living system exports entropy in order to maintain its own entropy at a low level (see entropy and life). By using the term negentropy, he could express this fact in a more ‘positive’ way: a living system imports negentropy and stores it. In a note to What is Life? Schrödinger explains his usage of this term. Let me say first, that if I had been catering for them [physicists] alone I should have let the discussion turn on free energy instead. It is the more familiar notion in this context. But this highly technical term seemed linguistically too near to energy for making the average reader alive to the contrast between the two things.
In 1974, Albert Szent-Györgyi proposed replacing the term negentropy with syntropy, a term which may have originated in the 1940s with the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappiè, who attempted to construct a unified theory of the biological and physical worlds. (This attempt has not gained renown or borne great fruit.) Buckminster Fuller attempted to popularise this usage, though negentropy still remains common, and is used in this article.
Reflexive praxis is a method of social research that has been developed progressively in Scientific God Journal through our series of five articles this year. These articles are listed at the beginning of the References section below.
Keywords: Reflexive Praxis, God’s fingerprints, DIY, Prepper, entropy, neg-entropy, glocalisation, wriggling universe, artificer, pattern recognition, kinesthetics, archaic renaissance, hands-on approach, visceral comprehension
Introduction
In this article we seek to identify the underlying our ‘ur-pattern’ as common patterns in our day to day behaviour and apparently unrelated practices. We provisionally call them our cosmic principles or Gods fingerprints as they represent, we submit, ways in which the Universe/Cosmos/God seeks to create neg-entropy especially from a social perspective. Further we see them as an essential underlying pattern[1]on which specific activities, callings and so forth are based – they can be seen as ‘ur-patterns’ after the German ‘ur’ for primal and archetypal, primeval even prime’itive and sauvage. Bloom (2012:227).
Pattern recognition is a primary characteristic and survival tool of human consciousness and behaviour. This then has been our Reflexive Praxis quest for these hidden or archetypal patterns. This quest that would be futile in a purely random Universe comprised of incoherence and non-resonance, as there would be no patterns. So in some regards our quest will be ‘our folly house’.
In this article we submit that these patterns emerge from what we call ‘muscular or hand knowledge’ i.e. our praxis. Others such as Bloom (2012:373, 378, 408, 554) refer to such prime’itive experiential knowledge as ‘visceral comprehension’ however such a hands on, gut level; approach to knowledge is vilified by our present systems of learning. Yet such knowledge was invaluable to Einstein for instance who imagined what it was like ‘running after a ray of light’ and catching up with it.
Possibly these could be patterns inherent in a Universe that creates itself and thus patterns relevant to it as it seeks to generate order and its associated neg-entropy creations. Consequently we believe they point to a process or broad and deep reason, whereby we can become more fully human without becoming trans or post human.
These ‘ur patterns’ are not ‘our patterns’ we see them as ‘(y)o(ur) patterns’. Nor are these the only, or even best, ways of expressing them. And some praxisers will argue for 14 or 10 or other patterns - OK. These though emerge from our grounded work of the past three decades and as such, we suggest, may link or resonate with that found by other praxisers and as such may prove fruitful in our ongoing praxis, as well as warranting some further attention and indeed application.
FingerPrints identified in our application of Reflexive Praxis
Deep structures identified by the authors through our application of the Reflexive Praxis methodology in terms of our individual and joint professional works over the past decade are as follows. We believe that in combination these factors can enable what may be called social synergy even social neg-entropy. We call this an ‘Archaic Renaissance’:
FP1 Resonance – rhythm, inner, inner ↔ outer harmony and outer harmony e.g. that of the spheres, empathy, resiliency plus, entrainment, mathos ∞ mythos
FP2 Patterns that connect - deep process, forward and back in time, vertical and horizontal resonance/interface between components in a system, we then are pattern carriers within the wriggling pattern that is our Universe
FP3 As above so below, as in so out - we are all star stuff - cosmic pulse fractal recursion, interpenetration of the sublime and the mundane, inner outer resonance
FP4 Chiro drives Cogno – hands on approach to growth and development also known as visceral comprehension – the prominence of praxis and the ‘hand crafted life’, becoming fully human before we become trans human or post human. Hand, Heart & Head I act reflexively therefore I am.
FP5 Myth ∞ Math are ISO’s (Isomorphic Symbol Sets) linked by metaphor, mathos ∞ mythos
FP6 Glocality rocks – for ecol/socio/econ development, waste minimisation via. repair and reuse and repair not recycling, global-local problematique, local solutions, applied ingenuity. Bottom Up ↔ Top Down resonance. In all glocalisation is a ‘nutrient gel’ for innovation creativity and evolution
FP7 Re-membering history - wisdom in our futures passed/past so as to learn our lessons and not to repeat the bad bits – social holon - re-member Auschwitz. This then is an authentic archaic renaissance which starts by seeing the present Global Problematique as an act of re-membering
FP8 Harmonising diversity rather than centralising conformity - biomimesis and biomemesis, systems design, alternative to hierarchy
FP9 Doula[2] Stewardship of all, for all, with all, by all- Doula’ing then stewardship of new proposals, praxis and projects for creative evolvability (resonant sustainability), we then are the doulas/bearers of archaic patterns or maybe it is them who sustain us
FP10 Nurturing neg-entropy while respecting entropy[3]
FP11 De novo - new stuff can happen
FP12 Evolution is learning and vice versa: Survival of the weakest even the outcast – the scruffiest, the group living between the worlds/habitats that are more able to adapt to both, rather than the supremely well adapted group living in the core community through the fabrication of exemplar projects that demonstrate today a better world is possible tomorrow.
Next we explore social neg-entropy in the link between these Fingerprints and socio-economics, as it is commonly understood to do with financial markets and globalisation of production, and the second law of thermodynamics.
[1] Emergent from our DUF field as developed in the first article in this series Miller and Wildman (2012a). DUF – Demiurgic Field (of manifesting form).
[2] The Doula is the midwives' midwife she holds the space for the midwife to help the mother deliver her baby. Oftentimes this would be the wives mother.
[3] In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger used the concept of ‘negative entropy’ in his popular-science book What is life? Later, Léon Brillouin shortened the expression to a single word, negentropy. Schrödinger introduced the concept when explaining that a living system exports entropy in order to maintain its own entropy at a low level (see entropy and life). By using the term negentropy, he could express this fact in a more ‘positive’ way: a living system imports negentropy and stores it. In a note to What is Life? Schrödinger explains his usage of this term. Let me say first, that if I had been catering for them [physicists] alone I should have let the discussion turn on free energy instead. It is the more familiar notion in this context. But this highly technical term seemed linguistically too near to energy for making the average reader alive to the contrast between the two things.
In 1974, Albert Szent-Györgyi proposed replacing the term negentropy with syntropy, a term which may have originated in the 1940s with the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappiè, who attempted to construct a unified theory of the biological and physical worlds. (This attempt has not gained renown or borne great fruit.) Buckminster Fuller attempted to popularise this usage, though negentropy still remains common, and is used in this article.
REFERENCES:
Five articles in this series Miller, I. and P. Wildman (2012a). The Demiurgic Field (DUF): It's Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation, and Creativity. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). http://scigod.com ; http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality . 3(5): pp. 43-70.
Miller, I. and P. Wildman (2012b). Ancient wisdom in the Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). 3(6). pgs. 578-592.
Wildman, P. and I. Miller (2012a). The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). 3(6). pg.593-605.
Wildman, P. and I. Miller (2012b). Research by Looking Backwards: Reflexive Praxis in Search of Archaic Wisdom. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). 3(8): pgs. 971-814.
Wildman, P. and I. Miller (2012c). Glocalisation as a key human survival technology: towards a fractal logic for growing peaceful futures through an archaic renaissance. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). Unpublished
General References
Arendt, H. (1963). On Revolution. London: Penguin. 350 pgs.
Balfour, M., (1990). The Sign of the Serpent - The key to creative physics. New York: PRism-Unity. 190 pgs.
Bell, J. (2003). Exploring the 'Singularity. The Futurist, 37(3): p. 18-25.
Bloom, H. (2012). The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates. New York: Prometheus Books. 700pgs.
Cavanagh, J. and J. Mander, eds. (2000). Alternatives to Socio-economic Globalisation - a better world is possible. Berrett-Koehler: San Francisco. 300pgs.
Cordeiro, J. (2003). Future Life Forms Among Transhumans. Journal of Futures Studies. 8: 65-72.
Corning, P (2003) Nature’s Magic. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge. 450 pgs.
Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1971), The Entropy Law and the Socio-economic Process. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 450pgs.
Hawken, P., A. Lovings & Lovins, H. (1999). Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Rocky Mountains Institute. 400pgs.
Jantsch, E. (1975). Design for Evolution: Self-Organisation in the Life of Human Systems. New York: George Braziller. 320pgs.
Kafka, P. (1976-1994). On the Principle of Creation and the Global Acceleration Crisis - a collection of 6 essays over the period 1976-1994. Germany. 100pgs. http://www.equilibrismus.de/html/e4-essays.pdf www.equilibrismus.de accessed 10-2012
Maloney, M. (2008). Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver: Protect Your Financial Future. New York: Business Plus. 200pgs.
Szent-Gyorgyi, A. (1972). The Living State: With Remarks on Cancer. New York: Academic Press.
Szent-Gyorgyi, A. (1977). ‘Drive in Living Matter to Perfect Itself,’ Synthesis 1, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 14-26.
Varela, F., E. Thompson, and E. Rosch. (1993). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge USA, MIT Press. 308pgs.
Wildman, P. (2003). Social Neg-Entropy identifying its contents and discontents. Prosperity Press. Pg6.
Wildman, P. (2000). Life Futures: An Initial Taxonomy of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Forms of Life. Journal of Futures Studies. 4(2): p. 93-108.
Wildman, P. (2012). Work in Progress Report on the Relevance of Rediscovering the Australian Bush Mechanic as a Credible Chiro-pedagogical Modality of Critical Futures Praxis. Journal of Futues Studies - June. 16, 4: 25pgs.
Womack, J. and D. Jones. (1996). Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. New York: Simon and Schuster. 350pgs.
See also
http://complexsystems.org/abstracts/scep.html accessed 10-2012
Corning, P. (1996) Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Politics Past, Present, and Future Ph.D.
Five articles in this series Miller, I. and P. Wildman (2012a). The Demiurgic Field (DUF): It's Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation, and Creativity. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). http://scigod.com ; http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality . 3(5): pp. 43-70.
Miller, I. and P. Wildman (2012b). Ancient wisdom in the Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). 3(6). pgs. 578-592.
Wildman, P. and I. Miller (2012a). The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). 3(6). pg.593-605.
Wildman, P. and I. Miller (2012b). Research by Looking Backwards: Reflexive Praxis in Search of Archaic Wisdom. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). 3(8): pgs. 971-814.
Wildman, P. and I. Miller (2012c). Glocalisation as a key human survival technology: towards a fractal logic for growing peaceful futures through an archaic renaissance. Scientific GOD Journal (SGJ). Unpublished
General References
Arendt, H. (1963). On Revolution. London: Penguin. 350 pgs.
Balfour, M., (1990). The Sign of the Serpent - The key to creative physics. New York: PRism-Unity. 190 pgs.
Bell, J. (2003). Exploring the 'Singularity. The Futurist, 37(3): p. 18-25.
Bloom, H. (2012). The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates. New York: Prometheus Books. 700pgs.
Cavanagh, J. and J. Mander, eds. (2000). Alternatives to Socio-economic Globalisation - a better world is possible. Berrett-Koehler: San Francisco. 300pgs.
Cordeiro, J. (2003). Future Life Forms Among Transhumans. Journal of Futures Studies. 8: 65-72.
Corning, P (2003) Nature’s Magic. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge. 450 pgs.
Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1971), The Entropy Law and the Socio-economic Process. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 450pgs.
Hawken, P., A. Lovings & Lovins, H. (1999). Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Rocky Mountains Institute. 400pgs.
Jantsch, E. (1975). Design for Evolution: Self-Organisation in the Life of Human Systems. New York: George Braziller. 320pgs.
Kafka, P. (1976-1994). On the Principle of Creation and the Global Acceleration Crisis - a collection of 6 essays over the period 1976-1994. Germany. 100pgs. http://www.equilibrismus.de/html/e4-essays.pdf www.equilibrismus.de accessed 10-2012
Maloney, M. (2008). Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver: Protect Your Financial Future. New York: Business Plus. 200pgs.
Szent-Gyorgyi, A. (1972). The Living State: With Remarks on Cancer. New York: Academic Press.
Szent-Gyorgyi, A. (1977). ‘Drive in Living Matter to Perfect Itself,’ Synthesis 1, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 14-26.
Varela, F., E. Thompson, and E. Rosch. (1993). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge USA, MIT Press. 308pgs.
Wildman, P. (2003). Social Neg-Entropy identifying its contents and discontents. Prosperity Press. Pg6.
Wildman, P. (2000). Life Futures: An Initial Taxonomy of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Forms of Life. Journal of Futures Studies. 4(2): p. 93-108.
Wildman, P. (2012). Work in Progress Report on the Relevance of Rediscovering the Australian Bush Mechanic as a Credible Chiro-pedagogical Modality of Critical Futures Praxis. Journal of Futues Studies - June. 16, 4: 25pgs.
Womack, J. and D. Jones. (1996). Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. New York: Simon and Schuster. 350pgs.
See also
http://complexsystems.org/abstracts/scep.html accessed 10-2012
Corning, P. (1996) Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Politics Past, Present, and Future Ph.D.
Appendix A.
Perceptual Types:
Visual communication/learning have two sub-channels: spatial and linguistic. Visual-linguistic involves the written word, such as writing and reading. On the other hand visual-spatial involves non-words such as pictures, film, blueprints.
Auditory communication/learning involves the transfer of information through listening to words being spoken to oneself and others.
Kinesthetic communication/learning involves physical experience; they retain better by doing things that are hands-on. This also has two sub-channels: tactile (touch) and kinesthetic (movement).
Identify Your Communication/Learning Style
First let's take a quick look how YOUR own brain is wired. Once you know that, then you can customize your learning/communication tactics to help you retain information better:
Visual - "I SEE what you mean"
Auditory - "I HEAR what you say"
Kinesthetic - "Hands On"
Perceptual Types:
Visual communication/learning have two sub-channels: spatial and linguistic. Visual-linguistic involves the written word, such as writing and reading. On the other hand visual-spatial involves non-words such as pictures, film, blueprints.
Auditory communication/learning involves the transfer of information through listening to words being spoken to oneself and others.
Kinesthetic communication/learning involves physical experience; they retain better by doing things that are hands-on. This also has two sub-channels: tactile (touch) and kinesthetic (movement).
Identify Your Communication/Learning Style
First let's take a quick look how YOUR own brain is wired. Once you know that, then you can customize your learning/communication tactics to help you retain information better:
Visual - "I SEE what you mean"
- You use visual language (“I can see what you're saying”)
- You remember images, charts easily (spatial)
- Enjoy watching and observing (spatial)
- You easily remember what you read (linguistic)
- You prefer to write down directions (linguistic)
- Enjoy art and movies (spatial)
- You take great pictures (spatial)
- You rarely get lost (spatial)
- You remember faces easily (spatial)
- When spelling a difficult word, you see the words (linguistic)
- You are neat and clean most of the time (spatial)
Auditory - "I HEAR what you say"
- You use auditory language ("loud and clear”)
- You remember what people say
- You are a great listener
- When you're bored, you hum or talk (to yourself)
- You record lectures
- Note carefully what they have heard
- You love music and prefer podcasts, radio and audio programs
- Verbal instructions seem to make sense to you
- Remembering names comes easy
Kinesthetic - "Hands On"
- You use kinesthetic language (“can’t get a grip on”, "I feel")
- You remember (and enjoy) by doing, rather than seeing or hearing
- When reading, you like to scan first to get the big picture
- You enjoy working with your hands
- You need to move around and take frequent breaks
- Lose concentration when there's little external stimuli
- When spelling a difficult word, you write it down
- You appreciate 'physical encouragement', such as a pat on the back
- When speaking, you frequently use gestures
- Rely on experience when you're working on difficult tasks
- You move around a lot during a lecture