Thesis outline - resilience and dynamic complexity - Revision history

Magic at 03:17, 13 March 2021

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Magic: /* Title: Creating collective resilience, empowerment, and social innovation in higher education through immersive, community-based learning experiences and an integrated understanding of all the sciences */

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Title: Creating collective resilience, empowerment, and social innovation in higher education through immersive, community-based learning experiences and an integrated understanding of all the sciences

Lsanten at 21:06, 12 March 2021

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Lsanten at 20:48, 12 March 2021

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Magic at 18:03, 12 March 2021

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Magic: /* Title: Creating collective resilience, empowerment, and social innovation in higher education through immersive, community-based learning experiences and an integrated understanding of all the sciences */

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Lsanten at 16:35, 12 March 2021

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Lsanten at 16:29, 12 March 2021

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Lsanten at 19:32, 8 March 2021

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Lsanten at 19:17, 8 March 2021

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 - lateral thinking (design, difference/diversity is valuable) vs linear thinking, you can't know, have to sit with ambiguity, time-invariant
 - self-nurishment wisdom, diet needs, metabolism, how to cook
 ## Reunderstanding the living being

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 - Theory U, presencing, how to unveil our blind spots, through the eye of the needle
 - lateral thinking (design, difference/diversity is valuable) vs linear thinking, you can't know, have to sit with ambiguity, time-invariant
 ## Reunderstanding the living being

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 - different approach to equations and math, what drives what? (from mechanics class)
 - Theory U, presencing, how to unveil our blind spots, through the eye of the needle
 ## Reunderstanding the living being

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 - rediscovering creativity, we need freedom, time, and unpressured productivity; fewer words, more visuals, more thoughts. Why are our inner thoughts not valuable?
 - illustration of crucial flows to allow for proprioception (money flows...)
-- first steps to take when learning smth: visualization, sketching, observation, exploration, synthesis (Schumpeter and others)
+- first steps to take when learning smth: visualization, sketching, observation, exploration, synthesis (Schumpeter and others), immersive yourself
+- different approach to equations and math, what drives what? (from mechanics class)
 ## Reunderstanding the living being

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 - white male supremacist culture and its ties to passive, receiving lifestyles that feed the capitalist system; co-creation is the beauty of life and creates independence
 - design for yourself, it is crucial to feel values, interests, and desire for beauty affect your work and creations
-- un-learning reductionist sciences
+- un-learning reductionist sciences, economic thought
 - rediscovering creativity, we need freedom, time, and unpressured productivity; fewer words, more visuals, more thoughts. Why are our inner thoughts not valuable?
 - illustration of crucial flows to allow for proprioception (money flows...)

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 - imperialism, superiority thinking, the ones who have everything and their duty to help others
 - the development of science from Aristotle to Galileo, Descarte, A. Smith
+- original forms of living with eco-systems, closed-loop life styles, "we shall live with animals"
 ## Reunderstanding the living being

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 - Doughnut economics, create goals that honor the whole, un-learn traditional economic theory
 - autopoietic systems, what does it mean to be alive?
-- creating conditions to favor a certain outcome rather than controlling to predict outcome
+- creating conditions to favor a certain outcome rather than controlling to predict the outcome
 - observation of your environment, apprehend as much as possible
-- interroception, listen to your body
+- interoception, listen to your body
 - empathy, listen to people not analyse them with our left side of the brain
 - self-governance, learn that we have the ability to live with and create policies ourselves
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 - connection to nature is healing (Capra 2014[^systemsView])
 - reductionist sciences and where they are useful, clear boundaries for concepts that are limited in their abstractability and application
 ## Reunderstanding the living being
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 Such an understanding of the occurrence of self-reproducing orgasms on any level is crucial in developing an eye for the hidden power flows that keep our institutions alive. The life force is in our systems as much as it is in our cells. White supremacy and other systems that resulted from colonialism are contemporary examples of power dynamics that make the fight for systemic justice so hard. The Western capitalist system, majorly based on power-structures from colonialism, is a reproducing organism that will resist when systematic change occurs.
-## Holistic systems are the way to go - everything is one big system: Our biophysical world and sociopolitical as well as all other disciplines are interconnected
+## Holistic thinking needs to come back - everything is one big system: Our biophysical world and sociopolitical as well as all other disciplines are interconnected
 Therefore, forms of governance that encompass and honor every part of our world are crucial to fighting climate change and systemic injustice.

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 - awareness of patterns in our world
 - the fractal nature of phenomena
-- change is interconnection of people, social innovation theory, not a self-assertive personal path through life
+- change is the interconnection of people, social innovation theory, not a self-assertive personal path through life
 - Meadows list of leverage points (Meadow 1999[^leveragePoints]), highest intervention is change of paradigms
 - cycles in nature, figure 8: exploitation --> conservation --> release --> reorganization --> exploitation
 ## Reunderstanding the living being

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 Therefore, we see strong evidence that an educational environment that emphasizes an integrated understanding of the sciences and values the interconnectedness of living beings can lead to a more resilient society, improve their wellbeing and consequently make use of the most meaningful capital that we have: creativity.
 ## Reunderstanding the living being
-In the Western educational system, physics, biology, and chemistry teach us skills to analyze and understand phenomena around us. The phenomenon of life is often tackled with list of essential features that living beings exhibit. In traditional biology, homeostasis, organization, metabolism, growth, adaption, response to stimuli, reproduction are among the commonly identified features of living beings.
+In the Western educational system, physics, biology, and chemistry teach us skills to analyze and understand phenomena around us. The phenomenon of life is often tackled with a list of essential features that living beings exhibit. In traditional biology, homeostasis, organization, metabolism, growth, adaption, response to stimuli, reproduction are among the commonly identified features of living beings.
 From a systemic perspective, life is identified as a self-organizing and autopoietic (self-reproducing) entity.
 What does it mean to be alive? Like actually be a living being? My theory and hope are that the re-understanding of what living beings are will inform us about being a good being yourself.
-### What makes anything alife?
+### What makes anything alive?
 If we compare swarm robots, artificial intelligence, and factories with plants, humans, or cells, a common shared feature among the living is that they can take care of themselves. They are entities concerned with self-maintenance (Capra 2014[^sytemsView]).
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 Such an understanding of the occurrence of self-reproducing orgasms on any level is crucial in developing an eye for the hidden power flows that keep our institutions alive. The life force is in our systems as much as it is in our cells. White supremacy and other systems that resulted from colonialism are contemporary examples of power dynamics that make the fight for systemic justice so hard. The Western capitalist system, majorly based on power-structures from colonialism, is a reproducing organism that will resist when systematic change occurs.
-## We live in a panarchy - everything is one big system: Our biophysical world and sociopolitical as well as all other disciplines are interconnected
+## Holistic systems are the way to go - everything is one big system: Our biophysical world and sociopolitical as well as all other disciplines are interconnected
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 [^systemsView]: Capra, F., & Luisi, P. L. (2014). The systems view of life: A unifying vision. Cambridge University Press.