[p2p-research] good article on change dynamics in living systems, applied to changing organisations from within

[Martien van Steenbergen]

The list below indeed is a good summary, essence, of Fritjof Capra's  
The Hidden Connection (Dutch summary) and resonates with Stuart  
Kaufmann's At Home In The Universe. Again in Dutch, I've compiled a  
list of strategic growth questions distilled from Capra's work.

Furthermore, Dee Hock's approach to creating VISA is based on the  
principles of emergent compex adaptive systems. Hock shared his  
experiences in One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic  
Organization.

TMO, human systems only "diverge" from other living systems (that we  
know of) by the fact that humans are capable of directing more free  
energy into creating material things. A blackbird, say, can "only"  
envision, architect, and create a nest and use its will to manifest a  
relatively small amount of free energy. Humans on the other hand can  
manifest things like cups, buildings, cars, computers, etc. Putting  
their will to envision, architect, tinker and manifest larger, more  
complex things. Things, right. Material stuff. To sum up Amit  
Goswami's The Self-Aware Universe: Consciousnes Matters. Literally. It  
is consciousness that collapses the wavicles into their particle  
manifestation, which we identify with matter. Ooops, sorry, I'm  
getting carried away now.

My passion and drive is to discover and capture the generative and  
self-unfolding "serious game rules" that capture scale-free living  
social systems that honour nature and the universe and catalyse the  
emergence of a global social holarchy.

Succes en plezier,

	Martien.


On 24 Aug 2008, at 09:13 , Samuel Rose wrote:

> It would be interesting to look at the following assumptions from  
> this article as explored through the lens of emerging peer to peer  
> phenomenon:
>
> (1)    A living system only accepts its own solutions (we only  
> support those things we are a part of creating).
> (2)    A living system only pays attention to that which is  
> meaningful to it (here and now).
> (3)    In nature a living system participates in the development of  
> its neighbour (an isolated system is doomed).
> (4)    Nature and all of nature, including ourselves is in constant  
> change (without 'change management').
> (5)    Nature seeks diversity – new relations open up to new  
> possibilities (not survival of the fittest).
> (6)    'Tinkering' opens up to what is possible here and now –  
> nature is not intent on finding perfect solutions.
> (7)    A living system cannot be steered or controlled – they can  
> only be teased, nudged, titillated.
> (8)    A system changes (identity) when its perception of itself  
> changes.
> (9)    All the answers do not exist 'out there' – we must  
> (sometimes) experiment to find out what works.
> (10)    Who we are together is always different and more than who we  
> are alone (possibility of emergence).
> (11)    We (human beings) are capable of self-organising – given the  
> right conditions.
> (12)    Self-organisation shifts to a higher order.
>
>
> ---
>
> I don't think all of the "living system" assumptions asserted above  
> apply directly to "human" systems, which have the capacity for  
> foresight, and have the ability to coerce and steer and control in  
> the short term (and often do). But, the assertions above could be  
> assumptions upon which humans decide to operate.
>
> My question is: what are the assumptions that we can make about  
> *human* systems (which are divergent from the balance that tends to  
> emerge in most other living systems)? And, how are those assumptions  
> relevant to what is emerging in peer-to-peer phenomenon?

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