Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2014-2015)
Time: Friday October 31, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07* ------------------------------ Information-Energy Metasystem Model Cadell Last <http://cadelllast.com/> (ECCO,GBI) Abstract: The human system is developing into a global biocultural superorganism. However, in the process of aligning a stable global goal state contemporary human control systems appear to be inadequate structures. In order to help humanity contextualize the nature of our highest control systems and guide future structural control system decisions, I am proposing the application of an Information-Energy Metasystem Model (IEMM). IEMM is an evolutionary-cybernetic model built with biological, anthropological, and historical data, and constructed utilizing two cybernetic theories: metasystem transition theory (MSTT) and control information theory (CIT). The IEMM suggests that major control transitions are dependent on specific information-energy control and feedback properties. Throughout our evolutionary history humans have stabilized three distinct metasystems in the general organization of bands/tribes stabilized by language-hunting feedback, chiefdoms/kingdoms stabilized by writing-agricultural feedback, and nation-states stabilized by printing press-industrial feedback. In the future, IEMM predicts that new global (or “glocal”) controls based on the Internet as an information medium, and solar energy as an engine for stabilization, could potentially generate a fourth metasystem. However, this is largely dependent on our own ability and willingness for fundamental structural control innovation. Therefore, by utilizing the IEMM I propose that we can learn from the structural re-organization of past control systems and potentially re-align the human system towards a stable long-term goal state. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *Nov. 7 * Harry Halpin and Smári McCarthy *Nov. 14 * Lotte van Lith *Nov. 21 * Ivo Velitchkov *Requisite Inefficiency* *Nov. 28* Jerome C. Glenn *The Global Futures Intelligence System* *Dec. 5 * Petter Braathen *Linking Complexity Science and Strategic Management* *Dec. 12 * Ben Collins *The Internet of Places/ The Future of Brands* *Dec. 19 * Jeanne Dietsch *Interactions of emotion, rationality, faith and institutions on the outcomes of trust* See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
