culture as a living system of life

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CULTURE AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE

Author – Presenter: Carlos A Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco

SIETAR EUROPA CONGRESS University of Valencia – 22nd May 2015


My Family

Francisco Varela

The New Generation of Cultural Practitioners

DEDICATE TO:


MY STORY I am a son of the sun, the stars, the sea

I learnt from the deserts’ music, the sweat,

tears, and the blood of my people One day I jumped into the sea to navigate

the veins of the world


BINARY SYSTEM OF HUMAN CONTROL

THE STORY OF A SYSTEM OF HUMAN, MYTHS, FICTIONS PRESSUMPTIONS, VALUES, BELIEFS, NORMS, RULES PERCEPTIONS FOUNDED ON THE SUBJECTIVE EXISTENCE OF A SUPERHUMAN & DIVINE ORDER

POWER


Dimensions Binary Logic/Rational Binary Logic/Rational

Religion 1 God 0 Humans

Power 1 Leader 0 Follower Reality 1 True 0 False

Moral 1 Good 0 Evil Ethics 1 Right 0 Wrong Choice 1 Yes 0 No Gender 1 Male 0 Female

Corporate 1 Winner 0 Looser

RATIONAL/LOGIC OF THE OPPOSITES


Plato -‐‑ 428/427 BC Separation mind & body

6.000 YEARS OF WESTERN THINKING •  Binary •  Rational •  Logical •  Linear •  Dualist •  Mechanical •  Fragmented

Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) Separation mind & brain logic & reason

Isaac Newton (1642-‐‑1727) Body & Mind as machine

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) Rational Empiricism

Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) Rational Ethics


CHRISTIANITY-‐‑ FICTIONAL BINARY/RATIONAL

! The School of Athens

a fresco by Raphael, at Vatican Museum


CHRISTIANITY – FICTIONAL BINARY /RATIONAL

!

Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), Aristotle gestures to the earth, representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation and experience, while holding a copy of his Nicomachean Ethics in his hand


FICTIONAL STORIES OF RELIGIONS IDEOLOGIES CULTURES

¡  AFRICAN

¡  ARAB

¡  ASIAN

¡  LATIN

¡  EUROPEAN

¡  SCANDINAVIAN

¡  WESTERN

¡  JUDAISM

¡  CHRISTIANITY

¡  ISLAM

¡  BUDDHISM

¡  SHINTOISM

¡  TAOISM

¡  SIKHISM

¡  HINDUISM

¡  LIBERALISM

¡  CAPITALISM

¡  COMMUNISIM

¡  NATIONALISM

¡  NAZISM

¡  ANARCHISM


FICTIONAL SYSTEMS OF HUMAN CONTROL

STORY OF SYSTEMS OF HUMAN, MYTHS, VALUES, BELIEFS, NORMS, PERCEPTIONS FOUNDED ON THE SUBJECTIVE EXISTENCE OF A SUPERHUMAN ORDER OR NOT

Ideologies

Religions

Cultures


MOST SUCCESFUL HUMAN STORY MONEY & CORPORATE CULTURE (1610)

Success of Materialism Marriage: Religion, Science, Money, Military


Separates: Nature from Humans Separates: Humans from Humans

Separates: Mind from Body Separates: Body from Soul

BINARY, DUALISTIC FRAGMENTED THINKING 1596-‐‑1650


SEPARATION: NATURE & HUMANS

Nature has nothing against humans


SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s HUMANS

WAR Planned execution of human butchery


SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s NATURE

Planet earth is used as endless cash machine


Mind Body Soul

SEAPARATION: MIND, BODY SOUL


THE MIND

Transactional, Materialistic, Consumeristic, Utilitarian


Search for the superhuman Humanoids

THE BODY


Worshiping of corporate brands

THE SOUL AND HUMAN SPIRIT


Edward T Hall - USA

Milton Bennett -USA

Geert Hofstede - NL Robert Kohls - USA

Fons Trompenaars - NL Richard D Lewis - ENG

Thank you, Thank you Time to Move on


The Bell Curve Myth = A Damaging Fraud

Carl Gauss (1777-‐‑1855) The Normal Distribution Adolphe Quetelet (1796-‐‑187) and The Quetelet Index

All generalizations are false, include this one Mark Twain


CULTURAL GENERALIZATION National Homogeneity


GENERAL CULTURAL STEREOTYPES


THE ILLUSION OF HUMAN CONTROL


BINARY LOGIC OF OPPOSITES CULTURAL DIMENSIONS


BINARY CULTURAL DIFERENCES A SYSTEM OF HUMAN CONTROL

•  Based on fallacious assumptions that: – National and personal culture is fixed, rigid, stable and unchangeable

– Human co-‐‑existence is determined, fixed and based on neutral cultural homogeneity (values) within nation states


•  Based on fallacious assumptions that: –  Human co-‐‑existence is fixed on cultural differences

– Neutral universal values do exist and they are the only or even main influence on human behavior



•  Based on fallacious assumptions that: –  Self appointment of universal supremacy by key nations

–  Reinforces national/individual complex of superiority

–  Entrenches confirmation biases at all levels –  Perpetuate human egotism, arrogance, disdain



A WORLD OF ENDLEES BINARY CULTURAL DIMENSION


DYNAMIC VIEW OF CULTURE

•  Reject the divisive and negative reaffirmation of sophisticated stereotyping

•  Replaces simplistic binary and linear practices of culture differences and of the self

•  Recognizes the complexity, the dynamic and multi-‐‑dimensionality of experiences of culture and self-‐‑identity


•  Sees culture as dynamic and integrative sets of relationships humans/humans and humans/ nature

•  Integrate both the dynamic and stable elements of culture which are understood in terms of the complex evolution of its context

•  Build from the outset common grounds and seek to reach together higher grounds of unity



•  Integrate experiential practices and observation skills to develop knowledge, awareness, consciences in the self and relationship with others

• Offers more complex open-‐‑ended approaches based on the concept of evolving and integrate living system of life

•  Seek to achieve common unity in co-‐‑existence and co-‐‑habiting



THE NEW RELIGION: SCIENCE Data Information Processing


CRISIS OF HUMAN THINKING DE-‐‑HUMANISATION


NEW CULTURE: AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE

“A non-‐‑linear dynamic, a complex and ever evolving process of integrated living systems of cognition and consciousness in the development of quality human co-‐‑existence and quality co-‐‑habiting"ʺ™. Carlos A. Gonzalez Carrasco – 01.02.210


SELF & CULTURE AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE


BASIS FOR HUMAN CO-‐‑LABOUR-‐‑ACTION

IMAGINATION

EMOTIONS CREATIVITY

JOY


THE INSIDE/OUT & OUTSIDE/IN

SELF OTHER


De-‐‑Humanization SWITCHING AND SHIFTING


BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLYLESS


TRANSCULTURE ”To transcend and evolve from one’s own existence, environment and culture. To switch and shift your mindset, to co-‐‑exist, to experiment, break, belong, fuse, merge, emigrate, escape, liberate or not, from any ‘culture/identity’; and/or adopt any forms of "ʺself expression"ʺ, from your own web of life

To practice qualitative humane co-‐‑existence/co-‐‑habiting even in situations of adversity”

© Carlos A. Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco 01.02.2010


CONDUCTIVITY QUALITY IN THE CONNECTION

SELF OTHER


THE CONVERSATION EMBODIED QUALITY


NEW QUALITY LANGUAGUE

CO-OWNERSHIP


NEW SHARED AGREEMENTS


WE MAKE OUR THINKING WE MAKE OUR CULTURE

NEURONS, GENES, DATA DO NOT MAKE US


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