In simple terms, we can think of morality as what we think is right and wrong or good or bad. Some people derive their morality from a religion or a philosophy while others develop their own morality based on their personal observations and experience in life. The word is often used interchangeably with morality, although, …
In the industrial age many of us had jobs that involved completing a specified number of tasks per day. This concept is essentially nonexistent for knowledge-based workers in the knowledge age. In the knowledge age, we have an objective or a goal that must be achieved for our employer (or other project) and there are …
Who controls your time? Your life can only exist in time, therefore, is the controller of your time the controller of your life? How much of your time do YOU control? Past, present and future. Do they really exist? It appears that the presents exists. You’re in it right now. As for the past and …
While doing research for this series of articles, I thought it would be interesting to apply a “100 year test” to compare humanity 100 years ago with the state of humanity today and also compare it with humanity in 100 years from now. As a result of the accelerating pace of change, although life has …
Beyond survival, the purpose of humanity is the sum of the purpose of each human – therefore it is the same as a human. It is self discovery. At this point in time in history humans are very advanced compared to cavemen. However, we are cavemen compared to the humans of the future. We know …
So, we are all one thing playing our own little role this enormous integrated system – where particles can exist in two places at the same, where we can change the way an object behaves simply observing it, where what see is not the raw data of reality, where physical things are mostly empty space, …
We will discuss consciousness as it relates to humans in more detail in the chapter called “Humans”. For the purposes of this chapter about nature we will discuss the possibility that some form of consciousness may exist in some surprising parts of nature. Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “The Botany of Desire,” …
Is the natural system (and the ultimate system – the universe) only made of physical stuff that can be measured or does it include other qualities? We have just spent a lot of time discussing the analysis of natural systems and the need to make holistic decisions in order to achieve MPI but, has nature …
One way to maximize your positive impact is to minimize your impact on the planet. Our impact on the system that sustains us will reach a planetary scale during the next 100 years and we will be forced to act accordingly. The natural environment has been dramatically altered as a result of the way humans …
In systems theory, an open system is a system that continuously interacts with its environment or surrounding systems. The interactions can involve a flow or exchange of information, energy or materials with its surrounding systems. On the other hand, isolated or closed systems do not involve any such exchange with the surrounding systems. Generally, natural systems are open and many …