REFERENCES AND QUOTES Philosophy 2021 Encourage imagination, diversity and experimentation - References and quotes THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER rich variability for resilience, single species forests losing resilience 77 Ecological disasters as a result of lost resilience. To big to get information. System balancing on a knife edge. 78 self-organizing, evolving from ovum to person, evolving societies, making own structure more complex. Often sacrificed for short-term productivity and stability. 79 Self-organizing requires freedom, experimentation and a certain amount of disorder See MEASURING REGENERATIVE ECONOMICS: 10 PRINCIPLES AND MEASURES UNDERGIRDING SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC HEALTH DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST, Dynamics of self-renewal. Fractals 80 Mental flexibility 98 “Boundaries are of our own making, and that they can and should be reconsidered for each new discussion, problem, or purpose.” 99 Bounded rationality, blundering “satificers” and Herbert Simon. “We rarely see the full range of possibilities before us. We often don’t foresee (or choose to ignore) the impacts of our actions on the whole system. So instead of fi nding a long-term optimum, we discover within our limited purview a choice we can live with for now, and we stick to it, changing our behavior only when forced to.” See DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST 96 106 “We don’t even interpret perfectly the imperfect information that we do have, say behavioral scientists. We misperceive risk, assuming that some things are much more dangerous than they really are and others much less. We live in an exaggerated present—we pay too much attention to recent experience and too little attention to the past, focusing on current events rather than long-term behavior. We discount the future at rates that make no economic or ecological sense. We don’t give all incoming signals their appropriate weights. We don’t let in at all news we don’t like, or information that doesn’t fi t our mental models. Which is to say, we don’t even make decisions that optimize our own individual good, much less the good of the system as a whole.” See DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST 96 107 Our bounded reality makes us shift reality easily depending situation. Switching person in the same situation/position would not make much difference. To make a difference, get an overview and step outside the limited information from on single place in the system. 108 “The most stunning thing living systems and some social systems can do is to change themselves utterly by creating whole new structures and behaviors. In biological systems that power is called evolution. In human economies it’s called technical advance or social revolution. In systems lingo it’s called self-organization.” “The ability to self-organize is the strongest form of system resilience.” SeeTHE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS 6 159 “Self-organization is basically a matter of an evolutionary raw material—a highly variable stock of information from which to select possible patterns—and a means for experimentation, for selecting and testing new patterns.”. We should worship biodiversity, diversity is source of evolutionary protentional just as knowledge is to technology potential, in the same way should we celebrate cultural diversity as source of social evolution. “Insistence on a single culture shuts down learning and cuts back resilience. Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.” Encourage variability, experimentation and diversity even if it means losing control. “Let a thousand flower bloom and anything could happen!” SeeTHE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS 6 160 Emerson quote 163 knowing is hard in complex systems “Stay Humble—Stay a Learner” 180 Embrace error 181 “celebrate and encourage self-organization, disorder, variety, and diversity” 182 I MEASURING REGENERATIVE ECONOMICS: 10 PRINCIPLES AND MEASURES UNDERGIRDING SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC HEALTH diversity 23 I THE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS chaos 7 I ENERGY AND ECONOMIC MYTHS “There is no law in biology stating that a species must defend the existence of others at the cost of its own existence. The most we can reasonably hope is that we may educate ourselves to refrain from "unnecessary" harm and to protect, even at some cost, the future of our species by protecting the species beneficial to us.” 377 I COMMON CAUSE – THE CASE FOR WORKING WITH OUR CULTURAL VALUES feelings trumps fact 8-9 values affected by influential peers, media, education and experience of public policies See THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS, MATERIALISTIC VALUES: THEIR CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES, THE STRUCTURE OF GOAL CONTENTS ACROSS 15 CULTURES., FINDING FRAMES: NEW WAYS TO ENGAGE THE UK PUBLIC IN GLOBAL POVERTY, THE SPIRIT LEVEL: WHY MORE EQUAL SOCITIES ALMOST ALWAYS DO BETTER Explanation of frames11 Deep frames can be activated and strengthen through language but also through lived experience – public policies and social institutions. Policy feedback – public policy impacts our values. See THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS, MATERIALISTIC VALUES: THEIR CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES, THE STRUCTURE OF GOAL CONTENTS ACROSS 15 CULTURES., Common Cause, FINDING FRAMES: NEW WAYS TO ENGAGE THE UK PUBLIC IN GLOBAL POVERTY, THE SPIRIT LEVEL: WHY MORE EQUAL SOCITIES ALMOST ALWAYS DO BETTER, DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST 12 Values connection to frames. See THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS, FINDING FRAMES: NEW WAYS TO ENGAGE THE UK PUBLIC IN GLOBAL POVERTY 40 Different solutions dependent on framing. Conceptual frames and deep frames. 41 Conceptual metaphors, linking a source domain (can be an embodied experience or familiar and unconscious frames related to cultural experience) to a target domain. See THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS and embodied experience and language 44 Frames, values and conceptual metaphors and their relations. See THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS, MATERIALISTIC VALUES: THEIR CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES, THE STRUCTURE OF GOAL CONTENTS ACROSS 15 CULTURES., Common Cause, FINDING FRAMES: NEW WAYS TO ENGAGE THE UK PUBLIC IN GLOBAL POVERTY, MYTEN OM MASKINEN: ESSÄER OM MAKT; MODERNITET OCH MILJÖ 46 I WHY WE COOPERATE we believe and act accordingly creates institutions 58 Pretend play, money and president 97 I FINDING FRAMES: NEW WAYS TO ENGAGE THE UK PUBLIC IN GLOBAL POVERTY cognitive frames and neurons firing 70 Mirror neurons and cognitive frames 71 cognitively wired for empathy 72 I ARBETSSAMHÄLLET – HUR ARBETET ÖVERLEVDE TEKNOLOGIN one-dimensional thinking and relative deprivation 50 relative deprivation (imagination) as a threat to power and realistic the friend of power, difference between desired and desirable, Russel on Mills 51 mild nihilism 53 one-dimensional acceptance of the existing worse and rejecting of the possible better See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER 81 Some reproduces the society more than others and Schmooanimals 88 Economic loss creates resistance. Different class related attitudes towards Schmoo-animals 89 Technology could be Schmoo-animals 90 resigning the overwhelming reality, a reality driven by those in power See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER 127 Gorz and experiencing reality See Empathic Civilisation, MYTEN OM MASKINEN: ESSÄER OM MAKT; MODERNITET OCH MILJÖ, THE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS on Varela and Maturana 177 I MYTEN OM MASKINEN: ESSÄER OM MAKT; MODERNITET OCH MILJÖ knowledge is a relation that’s forms the knower and the known, Varela and Maturana. No immaculate perceptions, world seen through a cultural prism/filter See Empathic Civilisation, DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST 86, THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER, ARBETSSAMHÄLLET – HUR ARBETET ÖVERLEVDE TEKNOLOGIN on one-dimensional man THE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS on Varela and Maturana 168 Cultural prism affects subject and object in a similar way, creates recursive relationship between subject and object. Uncertainty and Heisenberg 169 survival is about communication and the processing of information See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER, Regenerative economics 189 I DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST Adam Smiths never saw his mothers economic work 69 Policy feedback in economics, MacKenzi and Millo. Citizen reaction study and cocreating reality. 86 The human herd, networks, social influence, trickle-down behaviour, bounded rationality and cognitive bias. Risk-savvy heuristics and behavioral nudges 96 Human beings inability to cope with complex systems See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER 111 Warren Weave and problems of organized complexity 115 experiment! 134 no one knows what will work, try different approaches See Bäst I test 150 importance of multiple perspectives, Mills and Keynes 235 experiment! 238 I THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISISplay releases imagination 95 I PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH economics is a cultural construct, we decide what is possible 196 I ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS – PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS Ecosystems and uncertainty 94 Risk uncertainty and ignorance. Quantum physics and chaos theory show that uncertainty and ignorance are inherent in systems. Bill Gates and 540 kilobyte of computer memory 95 uncertainty in economic analysis a normative (ethical) decision 96 Critical depensation and sustainable yield vs uncertainty 101 Perfect information concerning impacts on ecosystems is a mirage 188 Ecosystem and evolution are not predictable. Dealing with uncertainty is an ethical issue. 277 We are ignorant of all the goods and services healthy ecosystems provides 460
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