Living according to nature

(We have crossed the homeostatic thresholds. We consume more than what is naturally regenerated. The article outlines a systems and design framework, a human machine interface to align man and the machine to facilitate regenerative learning and sustained high performance)

Turing’s Dilemma and the Ashby Solution

Interrogator 1 :What distinguishes the human from the Animal ?

Interrogator 2: The ability to ask questions, improve on my previous best performance….

Turing: Which is the machine …Which is man ?

Google comes up with the answer

Men have become the tools of their tools – Henry David Thoreau

And the tools are

Money

Media

Machines

Sciences …Not Science

Intelligences…Not intelligence

Religions…Not Religion

Ashby: Assuming life is a game how many options do you have ?

Turing: n

Ashby: Sapiens never went beyond the level of the clock. Humans fail to Google’s algorithm.

I win, I have n + x ..all the options available. Nature prevails and NGI, Natural General Intelligence or better ….Evolutionary Intelligence .

Who is afraid of AI ?

Not the Indian

Why ?

Complexity (variety) absorbs complexity. And India is the Everest of Complexity

Indian means global. They say ‘ Vasudhaiva Kudumbakam’. Ashby spent some time in India. He should know

Evolutionary | Natural General Intelligence

NGI |EI involves the conscious informed Invariant positioning for Sustained High Performance being aligned at all the minimum requisite 10 levels of awareness in its natural order

The New Normality

This would have crossed your mind somewhere on the learning curve with WhatsApp. We are not literate, not even WhatsApp literate!

New Literacy skill sets

Ask….” when answers are free questions are priceless”

Search

Connect , Synthesise, Exposition,Community

Adulthood, Evolutionary Intelligence

A story…

Gulliver returns. In his absence the Lilliputians had crafted their constructs of normality, modernity, progress and development

Now the Lilliputian Maths is in crisis.What is the new normal, the Lilliputian normal or Gulliver reference normal ?

Gulliver sets up The School of New Maths

Launches The Lilliput a layman’s machine interface based on the computational capacity of fingers. Starting from the right thumb and going anti-clockwise each finger represents the following.

O,1 The GPS, Invariant position,Human, Adult, Professional

2 Map, maps, disciplines

3 Clock, measure, Metrics

4 Thermostat, Self regulation, Reflection

5 Cell, Organic, Regeneration

6 Plant, rooted

7 Animal, Perfection

8 Human

a 9 Community

10 Learning, An intelligent system is one which improves on its previous best performance

Now can you do without any one of the fingers ? The students were to keep their minds refreshed, remain mindFULL once in a while

A new way of Looking / Seeing

Community Intelligence / Learning

The first man in space saw the planet from a perspective distinct from the rest of us.
His position enabled that vision

We can not observe a system from within the system

Seeing the simulator and the simulation facilitates the shift in position – exit the simulation if one chooses to

Q1 is the simulator and Q3 the simulation. Q2 explains why we remain within the simulation and Q4 how to exit the simulation to a world of higher possibilities

Life….Design..

Thinking together……

Coaching ourselves…Mintzberg….Swarming and collective intelligence…..

If the product is in the process …..Chanakya is the greatest ……….of all Process Philosophers

Chanakya the Great ….~ Chandragupta~Bindusara~Ashoka

Thakshasila …Taxila…..was not far off…

Aristotle ~ Alexander ……process was but a blip ……in comparison… …..glorified disproportionately……

And then Astrology took over…?

Astrology scores better …far better than religions…when replicability in science is < one in four….astrologers…priests….god men/women…rejoice …at the demise of the scholar…..when

the scholar is tagged ….> east/west…

Thinking tagged..> Biological…Physics thinking…..

Intelligence > intelligences

Process …..not processes

Alfred North Whitehead ……> true North > …..East

China has caught up ……with Process Philosophy ….IF ……that happens here Sanskrit ….processed…dead….will resurrect …not in letters ..in spirit ….Quality will catch up with quantity

The elusive …. Indian edge ✌🏿️

Let us admit it….we are

Notwarriors ..cannot fight a good fight …

Notbrahmin….hand in glove with business

Notvysya …..good businessmen…..

Charity….doles…CSR…are admission that we are by ‘nature’ ….. anti….social….

The Realshudra considers you ……an untouchable ……a parasite

Proof is in the pudding

No more colours…..it is all white ….viewed through the four lenses ….lions ..aspects of equal importance of the Lion capital of Asoka…

If this reads like code it is by design..

I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass… ……My life has been whim — impulse — passion — a longing for solitude — a scorn of all things present, in an earnest desire for the future……1844 – Edgar Allan Poe

Long living particles

Particles tickle
Tickles to molecule
Molecules giggle
Smile ….laugh…roar….

We fail to hear
Fail to see…the sea

Fish in the water
Failed water
So she designed the flying fish

-Anonymous

As most fish fail water …. humans fail to be human….therefor the Immortality Quotient ……..or…Contextual Intelligence

Many gods die..some very young…some last a little longer on our journey to adult….hood….a few particles stand out from the mass ….remain light houses …..pointing to the future

The how to dream of joining the 1 % …the elite…lasted for the first few months of B School….over three decades ….and ..Enron….Lehman Bros….VW……occupy Wall Street …we don’t need to hypothesise that the 1 % ….’fits’ and dream merchants …will take us to the future

We are in search of a few misfits….exceptions ..longer living particles ….much < 1% …who eclipse the 1%…in the search for the true normal…..natural….where no man/woman has gone….peaks of personal performance…piece together the fragments to craft a vision of the blue yonder..

We need to qualify normal and natural with ‘true’….is our dilemma….Only the normal can aspire to be the super normal ….

PC Devassia..100……………….Process/Sanskrit
Bede Griffiths ..86……………..Return/Centre
Verghese Kurien ..90………….Work/Action
NS Ramaswamy..86……………Indian

I didn’t have to wander too far ….for these exceptions from the immediate past…..I saw the first at work during the last 25 years of his life. The second one lived for many years on the other side of the mountain where I grew up. Many years later I was introduced to his work by the first. The third…I worked in the dairy system for seven years..met him once…30 minutes..may be ..but for the last …whom I met for the first time in B School and over many sessions months before his passing away…..I wouldn’t be at this…

The four meet our multiple criteria …human ..global…Indian…for the IQ…….relatively immortal….lighthouses from the immediate past ….pointing to the blue ocean of personal productivity….contextually intelligent

Four will not suffice the measure of requisite variety …Ashby

Hartshorne ..103…………..Creative synthesis
Thomas Berry 94………….Ecology
Whitehead..86……………..Process
Ross Ashby 69….Requisite variety/Complexity
Deming..93………………….Quality
John Rawls 81………………Position
Elinor Ostrom…78………….Commons
Jeanne Calment..122……..Life expectancy
Bill Mollison ..88 ……………Design

Hope you took a look at the wiki pages.

Let us now do a creative synthesis…
0f these people …their work ….since most gods failed our fitness test …of. ..requisite variety …..to survive….

It takes centuries for a culture to graduate from reason to process….Spinoza to Whitehead…by the time reason is buried….commons collapse ……emergence of new commons…Wiki?

“But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence hence fall into circularities — but their main skill is capacity to pass exams written by people like them”……..IYI……… – Taleb

(That coconut island stuff…was it a dig at …God’s own ….Kerala )

Taleb wouldn’t make it to our list unless he outlives Calment ……….he too talks about the < 1 %……..Jobs, Musk, Kurzweil et al…all fail

Between the mediocre and the exceptional is a gap of 25 + years…..mediocre adds no value whereas exceptions achieve relative immortality ……till some other exceptional go beyond them

IQ = Age at death…years of productive work…resilience

Work speaks for …defines ..the person….What we call work is not work …..waste? Human is the only species that create waste. Is this to be human?

We are what we do…of course this will be quite inconvenient to accept….

Cognitive Creative (the artist) AND Confident …..there is no alternative …

I  understand Rajiv Malhotra has coined a term called “Intellectual Kshtriya” presumably to describe himself and to inspire his supporters to fight for certain ideas. The term made me t…

Source: On behalf of Intellectual Shudras

” What do you mean by HL?”

“HL is your current age. I work in a team with a HL of 60, the range is 45 to 72″

“Going nuclear?”

“I am working on my planning horizon and a yardstick to measure the footprints I leave..”

“Are you suggesting that one’ s footprints must be as vicious as Plutonium? “

“It is the opposite”
“?”
“I was confronted 35 years back. It still haunts me. I want to exorcise it before I pass on.
He was 65, my age now. He worked for 35 more years. His footprints live on. He never left anything of the plutonium version.”

“What was your answer?”

“I had no clues to what he had in mind. He said his half life was 50 and he had decided to go on till 100. He lived six months and 15 days more.”

“Didn’t you try to change his HL?”
“I didn’t, I thought it very preposterous then to live to be 100 and working when the rest of us planned to retire in 20 more years and pass on in another 15 at around 70, life expectancy at that time. “

“What do you think now? ”
“Hmmmm. I keep it floating, unlike my Guru. I will soon be making it 66. They say you can see into the future as much as you can see into your past. The event horizon continues to grow if I continue to learn but I see more than somebody with half my HL”
“What about the team?”
“I am not sure. I bounced it off on one of them who is at 72”
“He countered me with a question. What do you think, what makes me work at 72?  Money?”
“I don’t know sir. If you could…”
“I am a professional. I am proficient in what I do and I become more proficient as I practice. I am what I repeatedly do.  My work defines me. How can I desist work. You are probably work averse and that is why you are asking. If you know your Epigenetics, you should know that work influences the behaviour of your DNA just as exercise does.”

” I did not pursue the question. I returned to my work googling for Epigenetics waiting for a more opportune time”

” I have been asking – what makes you a professional? – to fresh graduates who have gone through professional courses of 4-6 years, as part of an employability survey.”

” What were the replies ?”

“Less than 1 percent matched my expectations.”
” What did you expect ?”
” Some reference to competencies, a domain for long years of practice and a code of conduct.”
” No wonder, employability is an issue. Is it any better when you ask the same question to those with ‘experience’, for example their professors”
” What do you mean by experience, number of years?

Not any better, our standards are falling. What is the team working on?”

“Capacity building and professionalism in service delivery.”
“The team looks like a living example !”

“So what is your HL? “

Working………. 24×7?

“If it is not money, what makes you work?”

“Heard of Maslow’s Hammer?  If the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”

“No Sir”

“Then what are your basic needs? “

“Food, Shelter, clothing, then the higher needs ”

“Maslow is the hammer here, as media and technology at times become the massage. The purpose of life is living, the goal of any viable system. Some Beer ”

“No. Thanks”

“LOL, it is not that beer. This refers to Stafford”

“Confronted by purposelessness people commit suicide, I don’t think the Hemingways had a problem with basic needs. So purpose is even more basic to your basic needs. There is an addendum to the law of the instrument. .If you have a screw-driver as the only tool ….?

Your capacity building is the new hammer. Go ahead, do it, kill capacity or whatever is left of it. “

I fell silent, afraid to face the fire in his belly.

“I work 24×7 or live 24×7. To work is to live and to live is to work/play. I have no other pastimes. Some go off grid, in the name of environment, some delete their FB accounts freeing them from digital handcuffs. I have gone off Linked in as I have no divide between my personal and professional work.”

“Work 24 hours a day?”

“The secret is there is no secret ( smiles ). . I also work in my sleep. I remember my dreams in the four hours of my sleep, mostly related to what I work on. So sleep is  one of my best allies as important as my remote assistants, my sounding boards, drums as I call them who polish my rough cuts “

“But you are billing for …” I killed it before take off

The old man guessed it. He could see the garbage

“Money is not the end of everything, community is. He continued.   Why do “the Rosettos” live longer? .

“Community, Gladwell says’”. Glad that I had read at least my Gladwell.

“You can take on from there. Even when people do not add real value, they enjoy the sense of (fake) community in a parasitic relationship with the environment.   The challenge   is to shift to symbiosis, creating an internal community that contributes to net improvement of the whole”

“Sir. I have a call” (Enough for the day, lot of googling to do)

………………………….

Further questions:

How old are you ?

How old is the oldest cell in your body?

How old is the universe?

How old is the material you?

How old are you going by your real birth (not the physical one) ?

Are you a viable system?

” We are thought

We think we think but we are thought

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