Read/Think List

Basic changes in how we think about each other and about "reality" are proposed in the works cited below

...we pay more attention to the word than we pay to the objective level; and we orient ourselves, in many instances, by the label, instead of reconstructing the objective, silent levels behind the label.

Alfred Korzybski raised serious questions about the structure of our thinking insofar as it was permeated by Aristotelean reasoning. The premises therein involve a very troublesome "'is' of identity" which has us confusing map/territory and reality with its description. His premise is that the only knowledge is structure.The tome containing all this is "Science and Sanity" - which is heavier than The Bible!

...we can state an indisputable proposition of abundance of which the world power structures do not yet have dawning awareness.

Buckminster Fuller examined the geometry of the universe and of thought through structure and gave us the opportunity to abandon our delusions concerning the correspondences between reality and its Euclidean representation, substituting synergy/geodesics for geometric systems that don't correspond with reality. His two-volume masterwork "Synergetics" makes all the dark things clear, albeit with obscurity.

The major problems of the world today can be solved only if we improve our understanding of human behavior.

B.F. Skinner organized a scientific study of the behavior of organisms that accounted for much of how animals and humans have their behavior affected by environmental interactions. Both "The Behavior of Organisms" and "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" challenge our preconceptions concerning free will and other assumed human features.

The main problem is the conceptual hurdle of getting out of the way we are used to using language.

Tim Berners-Lee designed the fundamental methods that used the internet to form the medium through which his World Wide Web could transform the connection/interrelationship of all of us. In "Weaving the Web" and a Scientific American article on the Semantic Web he outlines much of what is continuing to transform human society through networking.

blame all this on William Loughborough