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The Self-transcending Construction of an Emergent Community
Jeffrey Goldstein, Ph.D.Adelphi University
April 26, 2008
NOT: The Self-organization of an Emergent Community
An Example of an Emergent Social Entrepreneurial Community:
Barka Foundation for the Promotion of Mutual Help
Barka Foundation for the Promotion of Mutual Help
• In early 1990s, gov’t stopped subsidizing collective farms with the result that thousands became homeless;
• Tomasz Sadowski and his wife, both psychologists, purchased abandoned schoolhouse and renovated it and started farming;
• By 2003 there were 20 such homes/farms; mature “mother” houses hatch new smaller homes and farms;
• Residents manage each home and farm with assistance of Barka’s staff;
• One resident, “We are all people with problems…biggest miracle is that we sit at one table and talk with each... at the end of the day I feel needed”
• Sadowski: “People told us that it wasn’t possible to create such an inclusive feeling…there is nothing mysterious about it. …The worst criminal doesn’t believe things can be this way only because he has never come across these kinds of relationships..”
Barka Foundation for the Promotion of Mutual Help
Sadowski: “People told us that it wasn’t
possible to create such an inclusive
feeling…there is nothing mysterious about
it. …The worst criminal doesn’t believe
things can be this way only because he has
never come across these kinds of
relationships..”interaction resonance; possibility and hope
life consciousness speciation project life consciousness speciation project
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InternetInternet
magnetism superfluidity magnetism superfluidity
superconductivitysuperconductivity
additional computational functionalityadditional computational functionality
dissipative structures optimal options dissipative structures optimal options
pricesprices
perception of color attractors and their perception of color attractors and their
basinsbasins
drug interactions leadership drug interactions leadership
behavior behavior
software “bugs” temperature software “bugs” temperature
citiescities
wars scientific revolutions Benard wars scientific revolutions Benard
cells cells creative ideas giant creative ideas giant
graph component graph component
EXAMPLES OF EMERGENCEEXAMPLES OF EMERGENCE
Social entrepreneurial projects
Characteristics of Emergent Phenomena
Radically Novel (Incommensurable) Coordination, Integrity, Collective, Wholeness Unpredictable (Ostensive) Non-deducible Irreducible (Not traceable) Self-transcendent (Emerge out of but distinct from)
Growing Sophistication of Science
Experientialism: Bergson, James, Whitehead
Anti-mechanismDiscontent with Evolutionary Continuism
Revisions of causality: Mill’s heteropathiccausality
EMERGENCE
Source of the Idea of Emergence: 19th,20th Centuries
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Emergent Bases
BEYOND SELF-BEYOND SELF-ORGANIZATIONORGANIZATIONEXCESSES OF THE “SELF-”OF SELF-EXCESSES OF THE “SELF-”OF SELF-
ORGANIZATIONORGANIZATION
Emergent Base (antecedents)
Emergent Phenomena (consequents)
Typical Complexity Perspective: Self-organization=Processes of Emergence
Decoupling of Emergence from Self-Org.
Emergent Base (antecedents)
Emergent Phenomena (consequents)
Processes of Emergence
Must be Powerful Enough to Generate Phenomena with the Properties of Emergents
Characteristics of Emergent Phenomena
Radically Novel (Incommensurable) Coordination, Integrity, Collective, Wholeness Unpredictable (Ostensive) Non-deducible Irreducible (Not traceable) Self-transcendent (Emerge out of but distinct from)
Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change CardinalityCrutchfield’s
Calculi of Emergence
Bennett’s Logical Depth Cohen’s/Stewart’s
Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions
Rosen’s Non-formalizability
?
Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change CardinalityCrutchfield’s
Calculi of Emergence
Bennett’s Logical Depth Cohen’s/Stewart’s
Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions
Rosen’s Non-formalizability
(Anti-) Diagonalization
Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change CardinalityCrutchfield’s
Calculi of Emergence
Bennett’s Logical Depth Cohen’s/Stewart’s
Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions
Rosen’s Non-formalizability
Limitative Theorems of Gödel and Turing
Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change CardinalityCrutchfield’s
Calculi of Emergence
Bennett’s Logical Depth Cohen’s/Stewart’s
Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions
Rosen’s Non-formalizability
Self-transcending
Constructions
Construction of anti-diagonal sequence to transcend Construction of anti-diagonal sequence to transcend
cardinality of rational numbers:cardinality of rational numbers:
Definition 1: Definition 1: RR is a 3-place relation among x,y,z represented is a 3-place relation among x,y,z represented as as DD11 and and DD22 making-up vertical and horizontal arrays of making-up vertical and horizontal arrays of
rationalsrationalsDefinition 2: A diagonal Definition 2: A diagonal FF is constructed on is constructed on DD11 and and DD22 so that so that
the mapping is a bijection the mapping is a bijection DD11 ----> > DD22
Definition 3: Definition 3: GG is the value of the diagonal is the value of the diagonal FF in in RRDefinition 4: Definition 4: STCSTC is an anti-diagonal of is an anti-diagonal of FF in in R so thatR so that ((STCxyzSTCxyz = =¬ Gxyz¬ Gxyz))
NOTE: NOTE: ¬ ¬ IS A NEGATION OPERATOR WHICH ALLOWS STC IS A NEGATION OPERATOR WHICH ALLOWS STC TO TRANSCEND CARDINALITY OF RATIONALSTO TRANSCEND CARDINALITY OF RATIONALS
Formalism of STC (incl. Negation) -Formalism of STC (incl. Negation) -ADAPTED FROM SIMMONSADAPTED FROM SIMMONS
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STC’s
Emergence as Self-transcending Constructions:
New logic for emergent novelty generation:
following and negation
Active leadership roles -establishing ecology of innovation
Emergent Novelty and Creativity
“In a sense, I put together elements that were already there, but that is what inventors always do. You can’t make up new elements, usually. The new element, if any, it was the combination, the way they were used.”
-- Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate for his invention of polymerase chain
reaction (PCR)
Emergent Novelty and Creativity
“Invention is imagination along with a pile of junk.
-- Thomas Alva Edison
Prigogine’s later definition of self-organization:
• “…constrained situated dependentness"
CONSTRUCTIONAL CONSTRUCTIONAL SOURCES OF NOVELTYSOURCES OF NOVELTY
CONTAINERSCONTAINERS
[RECURSION WITH [RECURSION WITH NEGATION] (SELF-NEGATION] (SELF-DISSIMILARITY BETWEEN DISSIMILARITY BETWEEN SCALES)SCALES)
SELF-TRANSCENDING SELF-TRANSCENDING CONSTRUCTIONSCONSTRUCTIONS
RANDOMNESSRANDOMNESS
ALREADY EXISTING ORDERALREADY EXISTING ORDER
Self-transcending Constructions, not Just Spontaneous Processes
• Building Bocks as the Already Given (Structures, Dynamics, Properties)
• Not Subjugation to Process or Temporal Flow
• Non-Oppositional
• Based on Constructional Resources and Operations
• Free Act of Creativity but Not Order for Free
Criticalization Phenomena
Morphogenesis -- Turing
Phase Transitions
Self-organization
Self-organized Criticality
Symmetry Breaking
Chemical control parameters
Nonlinearity and Instability
Turing Reaction Diffusion Symmetry Breaking
Linfa Yang
Symmetry Breaking
Temperature Increase (control parameter)
Tc
Order parameter ()increases
Self-organizing Systems (Prigogine; Haken)
Goodwin’s Morphogenetic Fields
Symmetry Breaking
TemperatureDecreases (control parameter)
Tc
Order parameter ()increases
Critical Phenomenon in Condensed Matter Physics
Self-transcending Construction of the Emergence of a Giant Component in a so-called “random” Graph
--(from Barabasi)
HOPE AND TRANSCENDENCE AND STC
• [...hope doesn’t] overcome the “powers defining those situations experienced as hopeless by ‘fighting’ them, rather ‘by transcending them.’
“Reflecting on hope is perhaps our most direct means of apprehending the meaning of the word ‘transcendence.’
• -Gabriel Marcel
“Without hope we not only cannot wait, we cannot even put one foot in front of the
other.” –Leslie Farber
“...to hope until hope creates From its own wreck the thing it
contemplates.”-Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”
Transcendence, Emergence, and Hope
Isaiah 43:19:
[Whose Name is “I am that I am”]
says to you,
‘Look, I am doing something new -- It is emerging right now, Can’t you see it?
I am creating a path in the wilderness, And rivers out of the desert.’