To quote Gregory Bateson:
"Towards an Ecology of Mind".
rl
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> David,
>
> This will bother me for the rest of the week! Best answer I can come up
> with is "Liberal Arts". It is embodied in our colleges and universities
> as wholes, but no longer in any of its individuals. Here is where St.
> Johns is the exception, where the quality you aspire to name, is supposed
> to be embodied in EACH member of that community, not just in the community
> as an aggregate.
>
> I will forward this to my son at St Johns and see if he has a comment or
> can send it to somebody who will. Perhaps he will forward it to the
> faculty at large, although I am not sure that bulk email is something they
> do.
>
> Nick
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Prof David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 11/8/2007 9:56:00 AM
> > Subject: [632 Advisory] wordcrafting
> >
> > Gentlefolk,
> >
> > I need a word.
> >
> >
> > What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
> > incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
> > art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
> > imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
> > entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
> > enlightenment?
> >
> > And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
> > discipline / degree / body of knowledge?
> >
> > Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
> > ugly as a word.
> >
> > Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
> > science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
> > used by Charles Darwin in his travels).
> >
> > Ideas??
> >
> > dave west
> >
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