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The neurotransmitter might have helped spur the evolution of social intelligence As human ancestors got better at cooperating, they shared the know-how for making tools and eventually developed language—all in a feedback loop fueled by surging levels of dopamine. “Cooperation is addictive." 
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After initially training as a zoologist and marine biologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California (Santa Cruz), I have spent the last 20 years of my life in search of answers to one extremely complex challenge: How can we create a more sustainable human presence on Earth?
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We are life. We are nature. We are Universe. Self-reflexive consciousness allows us different perspectives on this ever-transforming and evolving whole we participate in — this all that we are…
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Major changes in today's world have made renowned authors recognize that the existing strategic models are not providing adequate solutions to deal with society's changing problems. The present research effort aims to understand the strategic problem and develop a concise study of the internal and external aspects of strategic problem dynamics, taking as a starting point the approaches inherent in complexity theory. As a result, it was found that organizations are the products of couplings between two or more separate systems; they couple to the socio-human system, and these, to the rest of the planetary dynamics. As a last analysis, this configuration is strongly analogous to the dynamics based on symbiosis, found recently in biology. This latter approach suggests that it is an inspiring, important and useful metaphor for the improvement of theoretical frameworks in management
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In this two day workshop we will draw on knowledge from the fields of team coaching, eco-constellations, ecology, storytelling, movement, and theatre to explore how an embodied understanding of systems and complexity can inform our work as coaches, facilitators, educators, parents and leaders. https://www.facebook.com/events/610287359166893/
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The time-honoured notions of the web of life and the Earth community, or community of life, are fully consistent with a new conception of life that has emerged in science over the last 30 years. In my recent book The Systems View of Life, co-authored with Pier Luigi Luisi, I offer a grand synthesis of this new scientific understanding of life.
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Nemetics is just a code. It is a meta language to allow people in different silos to communicate about complexity science. The purpose of the meta language was to have a precise way to talk about complex adaptive/creative systems using only 140 characters at a time. Nemetics can also be thought of as a biomimicry model of communication. Our inspiration comes from the human body. Especially the way signals pass between the brain, the heart and the gut.
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This video provides a short overview of Cellular Forms, describing the aims behind the work and the processes used to create the structures. For a more extensive…
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For many of us, our eyes widened to nature’s genius and the possibility, power, and promise of biomimicry when we first watched Janine take the TED stage. To date, an estimated more than 700,000 people have shared the experience. If you have not seen it, please enjoy. If you have, we are certain you will enjoy it again. In either case, we hope it inspires you to spread the word (“biomimicry”) and perhaps even begin your own learning journey.
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A talk given at Schumacher College (UK), Dartington on May 7th 2014. The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities, designe...
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The mantra of business today is: ‘If it can’t be measured, it can’t be managed’. The problem that we are facing is not the decision to measure or not to measure, since measurement is a fundamental aspect of business management. We have to rethink our understanding of what measurement is, and how it relates to…
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We need to reintegrate our economic activities, the way we meet our needs and how we produce and share value, with the basic rules of ecology. Our design and technology need to be aligned with the…
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Highlights of a presentation by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi on the topics discussed in their book 'A Systems View of Life'.
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Something important is happening in our world that you are not going to read about in the newspapers. I consider it the most fascinating and hopeful development of our time, and it is one of the reasons I am so glad to be alive today. It has to do with what is occurring to the notion of the self. The self is the metaphoric construct of identity and agency, the hypothetical piece of turf on which we construct our strategies for survival, the notion around which we focus our instincts for self-preservation, our needs for self-approval, and the boundaries of our self-interest. Something is shifting here.
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A holistic understanding of modern evolutionary biology suggests that life evolves by a process of diversification and subsequent integration of diversity through collaboration.
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Understanding the dynamics of change within complex dynamic systems has critical implications for our understanding of health. Conceiving of health as an emergent property of complex systems can inform salutogenic — health-generating — design. This approach is needed to move beyond sustainability by creating diverse regenerative cultures that are elegantly adapted to the bio-cultural uniqueness of place.
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How does intelligence work? According to Dr. Joe Tsien, a leading neuroscientist at Augusta University in Georgia, the key lies in one simple, unassuming equation: N = 2i–1. At its core, Tsien’s theory of connectivity describes how our billions of neurons flexibly assemble to not only gather knowledge, but to crystalize concepts and extrapolate from learned …
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New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure.
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"Life is about floating on the seas of turbulence, drifting on the eddies and currents, flowing, and along the way, learning: whatever that may look like for each of us currently experiencing a mortal life." ~Joanna Hunter Each of us (the animate and inanimate, the sentient and the purely material) is part of one inconceivably…
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This web site opens doors to the new bodies of thought, time-tested spiritual practices, and pioneering group methods, that I find to be powerful inspirations to understanding and action.
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The systems view of life, not surprisingly, includes a new systemic understanding of evolution.
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