3DN Positive Steps
The volume of information and the complexity of the world require each of us to specialize. We each know a great deal about a tiny fraction of human knowledge. For the rest of our understanding of how the world works, we rely on what can be thought of as “common knowledge”. This common knowledge is not the thought of any one of us – it is what we understand from what we hear from all the different source to which we listen. Each of those sources is speaking from its area of expertise - or its own common knowledge. Therefore, common knowledge does not form a coherent understanding of what we know about how the world fits together.
Those with an expertise in experimental physics tell us that what we perceive as solid is not so. An atom is composed of the attraction between electron and nucleus, a molecule another set of attractions, a cell another, an organism another, and an organization another. In this sense, a human organization is as solid as a diamond, or perhaps as soft as graphite, depending on the bonds that form it . . .
The interesting thing about that fact is our individual power to change those bonds that form human organization. The existing set of organizations is just an historic accident – the composition of human organization – the way individual humans arrange themselves in groups - has changed throughout history and is continuing to change. With the right information, we can rearrange it the way we want . . .
Which brings us back to the volume of information . . . information is data in a model that allows us to describe what we see, knowledge is the ability to apply that information to have an effect in the world, wisdom is the ability to predict the likely outcome of any given choice. Our information and knowledge has expanded so rapidly that our common knowledge no longer contains the wisdom we need to make choices that lead to the world we would like . . .
We are interested in an upgrade to the common knowledge based on the best expertise in all the different specialties – a conversation across expertise instead of expertise isolated from other expertise . . . How do we start that conversation?
Perhaps a mentor model like a a learning machine, or Ravi's classes on how understanding “Oneness” helps us be more effective at work, or . . .
What we would be doing is extending the offer of a bridge - others would accept the offer and maintain the bridge out of the hope that their participation will make the world better for themselves and their children . . .
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