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<div class="col-md-7"><p>We live on the brink of an Enlightenment-like change. The mission of Holotopia is to manifest this vision; and to choreograph its fulfillment.</p> </div> </div>  
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<p>Science became "the Grand Revelator of Modern Western Culture" through a series of historical accidents. A consequence is that our most trusted way of exploring the world is a "narrow frame"—well suited for some purposes (such as developing science and technology), but poorly for others (notably for understanding "human development", and for developing culture). </p>
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<p>An even larger problem, however, is that science constitutes a 'hammer'—a specialized set of tools, which make us favor disciplinary interests, and ignore the needs of people and osociety.</p>  
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<div class="page-header" ><h2>Scope</h2></div>
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<p>We adopted this <em>keyword</em>, <em>narrow frame</em>, from Werner Heisenberg, who in "Physics and Philosophy" (subtitled "Revolution in Modern Science") explained the <em>narrow frame</em> and its consequences (see our summary [http://kf.wikiwiki.ifi.uio.no/STORIES#Heisenberg here]).
We say "no thanks" to yet another report about Donald Trump's latest mischief. The first step toward [[holotopia|<em>holotopia</em>]] is to take the way in which we look at the world into or own hands. That's what the choice of [[scope|<em>scope</em>]] is about. </p>
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<p>Click [https://youtu.be/JNSPCUtlXGI here] to hear Heisenberg say that
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Most people believe that the atomic technique is the most important consequence. It was different for me. I believed that the philosophical consequences from atomic physics will make a bigger change than the technical consequences in the long run. And on the general consequences on atomic physics one can think about were well above here. So we know because of atomic physics and what was learned from it that general problems look different than before. For example, the relationship between science and religion, and more generally, the way we see the world.
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<p>[http://kf.wikiwiki.ifi.uio.no/IMAGES#Einstein-Epistemology Here] you'll find a couple of epistemological notes by Einstein, which will also be relevant.</p>  
  
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>The <em>scope</em> of Holotopia</h4></div>
 
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<p>The [[scope|<em>scope</em>]] of Holotopia is the nature of our contemporary condition as a whole. We want to grasp what's going on in our time – in a way that empowers us to set our priorities, and to act, in accordance with the situation we are in.</p>
 
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>There is an elephant in the room</h4></div>
 
<div class="col-md-7"><p>There is an elephant in the room – which we have, incredibly, failed to see!</p>
 
[[File:Elephant.jpg]]<br><small><center>Holotopia becomes manifest as soon as we begin to connect the dots.</center></small>
 
<p>The [[invisible elephant|<em>elephant</em>]] becomes visible when we connect the dots. </p>
 
<p>Before we saw the [[invisible elephant|<em>elephant</em>]], we heard our visionary thinkers talk about "the fan", the "hose" and the "rope". But that didn't make much sense, and we ignored them. Now that we've caught a glimpse of this spectacular animal, the specific insights begin to acquire a whole new meaning. <em>Knowledge</em> acquires the power to make a difference!</p>
 
 
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<p>As a vision of a societal new <em>order of things</em>, the <em>holotopia</em> differs from the common utopias by being far <em>more</em> congenial, and at the same time readily realizable. It is more congenial, because the authors of common utopias lacked the data to see what was possible. It is readily realizable because we already own the knowledge needed for its fulfillment.</p>
 
<p>What makes the <em>holotopia</em> so extremely good news is a paradox:
 
<blockquote>Comprehensive change can be easy – even when smaller and obviously necessary changes may seem impossible.</blockquote></p>
 
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>It is time to build anew</h4></div>
 
<div class="col-md-7"><p>An effect of the <em>holotopia</em> insight is to thoroughly redirect our efforts. And to make our efforts <em>effective</em>. It is rebuilding, and not fixing, that we must focus on. Instead of struggling to "solve our problems" within the existing order of things, or "by thinking as we did when we created them",  we are invited to change that very order. And our very thinking.</p>
 
 
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<p>Perhaps even more importantly, this changes by 180<sup>o</sup> the <em>tone</em> of our engagement with the future. And also with our present: from avoiding risks, to fulfilling opportunities. It is the Renaissance time we are living in! And although most of us may not live experience its final results – it is <em>now</em>, it is <em>before</em> the fulfillment, that the creative opportunities are the largest. </p>
 
<p>Yes, there are problems. But now we begin to see them as <em>symptoms</em> – pointing to the need for the kind of changes that will radically <em>improve</em> our condition! 
 
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<p>We consider the <em>giant</em> that corresponds to an insight to be the <em>icon</em> for the insight. The <em>icon</em> for <em>holotopia</em> is Aurelio Peccei.</p>
 
<p>Based on a decade of The Club of Rome's research into the future prospects of mankind, Peccei was led to conclude
 
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It is absolutely necessary to find a way to change course.
 
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Peccei also left us the following more detailed instruction, how the course is to be changed:
 
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Let me recapitulate what seems to me the crucial question at this point of the human venture. Man has acquired such decisive power that his future depends essentially on how he will use it. However, the business of human life has become so complicated that he is culturally unprepared even to understand his new position clearly. As a consequence, his current predicament is not only worsening but, with the accelerated tempo of events, may become decidedly catastrophic in a not too distant future. The downward trend of human fortunes can be countered and reversed only by the advent of a new humanism essentially based on and aiming at man’s cultural development, that is, a substantial improvement in human quality throughout the world.
 
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<div class="col-md-3 round-images">[[File:Peccei.jpg]]<br><small><center>Aurelio Peccei</center></small>
 
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<p>We are still only warming up. In its developed form, the Holotopia will have five transformative spaces – implemented both online and offline, as virtual spaces and as transformative situations involving with concrete people and in real places – through which its mission will be fulfilled. </p> 
 
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>The fireplace is the [[dialog|<em>dialog</em>]] space. We engage everyone's [[collective intelligence|<em>collective intelligence</em>]]. The fire is always burning. May just drop in. <em>Or</em> schedule regular meetings, to deepen the understanding of a theme, or to co-create a project.</p>
 
  
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>Our [[dialog|<em>dialogs</em>]] will be knowledge-based. The <em>library</em> will provide the access to underlying insights. Venues to explore them further. </p>
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>A single principle</h4></div>
 
<div class="col-md-7"><p>We show how the entire [[holotopia|<em>hologopia</em>]] vision follows from a single, obvious principle or axiom: That knowledge must be [[knowledge federation|<em>federated</em>]]. That we cannot just ignore what we don't understand. That what we think and do must reflect the knowledge we own. </p>  
 
<p> We can say now, simply, that [[holoscope|<em>holoscope</em>]] leads to [[holotopia|<em>holotopia</em>]]. That when we begin to see things as wholes – we become ready to also <em>make them</em> whole!.</p>  
 
  
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>We show that aall of [[holotopia|<em>hologopia</em>]] follows also from applying a single value – the value of [[wholeness|<em>wholeness</em>]]. And it's an obvious value, anyhow!</p>  
 
 
 
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>So a single insight emerges straight away, and serves as the guiding light for all the rest: We get to see our own time in a similar light as we may now see the zeitgeist in Galilei's time. At the twilight of the Middle Ages, and the dawn of the Enlightenment. ...</p>
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<div class="col-md-6"><p>In the spirit of [[knowledge federation|<em>knowledge federation</em>]], we offer <em>holotopia</em> as "the point of it all" – or technically as the <em>circle</em> in the [[information holon|<em>information holon</em>]] in which the <em>knowledge federation</em> <em>prototype</em> is the <em>square</em>.</p>
 
 
 
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<p>We explain this point here by a mockup logical argument. We may interpret the "H" as "H ⇒ H", which is a tautology. But when written as "Holoscope ⇒ Holotopia", it becomes an intuitively obvious theorem – which our [[prototype|<em>prototype</em>]]  undertakes to <em>federate</em>: When we liberate ourselves from our conventional or <em>socialized</em> ways of looking at the world, and begin to use a <em>knowledge federation</em> which allows us to  see it holistically, then a wonderful new world, a <em>whole</em> world, becomes manifest and practically realizable. </p></small>
 
 
 
<p>We show that <em>holotopia</em> follows as soon as we begin to [[knowledge federation|<em>federate</em>]] knowledge. And we show that [[knowledge federation|<em>knowledge federation</em>]] is the core action that follows from the <em>holotopia</em> insight – and each of the specific five insights that lead to this large and basic one.
 
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Revision as of 12:06, 16 May 2020

H O L O T O P I A:    F I V E    I N S I G H T S



Science became "the Grand Revelator of Modern Western Culture" through a series of historical accidents. A consequence is that our most trusted way of exploring the world is a "narrow frame"—well suited for some purposes (such as developing science and technology), but poorly for others (notably for understanding "human development", and for developing culture).

An even larger problem, however, is that science constitutes a 'hammer'—a specialized set of tools, which make us favor disciplinary interests, and ignore the needs of people and osociety.


Narrow frame in physics

We adopted this keyword, narrow frame, from Werner Heisenberg, who in "Physics and Philosophy" (subtitled "Revolution in Modern Science") explained the narrow frame and its consequences (see our summary here).

Click here to hear Heisenberg say that

Most people believe that the atomic technique is the most important consequence. It was different for me. I believed that the philosophical consequences from atomic physics will make a bigger change than the technical consequences in the long run. And on the general consequences on atomic physics one can think about were well above here. So we know because of atomic physics and what was learned from it that general problems look different than before. For example, the relationship between science and religion, and more generally, the way we see the world.

Here you'll find a couple of epistemological notes by Einstein, which will also be relevant.


Narrow frame in philosophy
Narrow frame in the humanities

Narrow frame in physics

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Narrow frame in physics