All Is As Is

Using the VUE tool I am about to launch into a project that creates a website based on maps as navigation and information retrieval devices. The site aims to map the relationships between various fields of research, development, theory and practice, which combine to give and insight into the current "state of the global-mind".

The Aim of the exercise is to develop a coherent ontology of all the initiatives, innovations, communities of practice, scientific endeavors, social networks and spiritual practices that contribute to the optimisation of the relationship between human civilisation and the planet we inhabit.

This project aims to develop a credible meta-perspective from which meta-analysis can be drawn. It hopes to provide a resource of integrated, interlinked information relevant to the current leading edge in consciousness evolution and developments arising from it.

The maps being developed for this project will be incorporated in to a wiki platform for collaborative development, and the whole project is open-source.

Stay tuned for the launch of a grand experiment in human/technology co-operation!

This is the latest version of the structural basis of the high level design for a general innovation project. Note: I'll keep updating the diagram and adding comments until this design reaches a steady state...

2010-07-31, by John Ringland.

Slide show...

This is a cutting edge integral diagram apart from anything else!

Enjoy :-)

Link: http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/about.html

John Stewart is an Australian evolutionary thinker who is a core member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group of the Free University of Brussels. He has worked as a labor union official, manager of Australia’s north eastern fisheries, and as a senior policy adviser to the Australian government on labor relations regulatory issues. His main interest is in the development of an evolutionary worldview that reveals to us who we are, and what we should be doing with our lives. His work on the directionality of evolution and its implications for humanity has been published in a number of key papers in international science journals. These include papers on the potential for humans to enhance their psychological capacities through the future evolution of consciousness. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book ‘Evolution’s Arrow: the direction of evolution and the future of humanity’. More recently he has finalized ‘The Evolutionary Manifesto’ which outlines an evolutionary worldview and explores its relevance to humanity. The Manifesto demonstrates the potential of the worldview to provide meaning and purpose for human existence, and uses it to identify the actions that we need to take if humanity is to fulfill its potential to contribute positively to the future evolution of life in the universe.

Link: http://www.integralinstitute.org.au/

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Blessings :-)

As a sprout from the seed of an idea last posted; it occurs to me that the emerging semantic web and its imaginable AI evolution could be served well by the AQAL framework developed by Ken Wilbur. Much of the information required to give this emergent 'being' an enlightened overview of the situation which gives rise to it is already encoded and key areas of understanding have become transparent using this method.

Could the key players in IT and AI development come together as a branch of Integral Institute and form Integral Technology?

Here is a summary of what Integral Institute have put forward in this regard;Semantic Web Executive Summary.pdf