Category: Autognomics
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My 10 Year Summary: What I Have Learned
Contents 1. Introduction2. Background3. My Journey 3.1. The initial years (2012–2015) 3.2. The middle years (2016–2018) 3.3. The final years (2019–2022)4. Conclusions5. Afterword6. Acknowledgments7. Recommended Books 1. Introduction I started blogging ten years ago today (Sept 26, 2012). At the same time, I started searching for life-giving ways of working. This is a summary of my journey and…
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Retrospective 2020-28
This is a summary of my reading this week (week 28, 2020). I am currently immersing myself in Norm and Skye Hirst’s writings. Their work is available at the Autognomics website. I also received a USB flash drive with additional files this week. Thank you, Skye! Here is my summary of Norm Hirst’s Propositions on…
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Norm Hirst’s Propositions on Life
This post is a summary of Norm Hirst’s Propositions on a New Metaphysics and Science of Life-Itself. Background Norm Hirst (1932–2012) was an independent scholar studying life and values for over 50 years. At MIT, Hirst studied with Robert Hartman, a visiting professor developing a formal axiology. See my reviews of Hartman’s Freedom to Live…
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Skye Hirst on decision-making
IntroductionSkye Hirst is one of the interesting persons I have encountered during my search for more life-affirming ways of working together. Skye Hirst writes, for example, in her article on Value Intelligence in All Creative Organisms that it is an inalienable right to be free to act according to one’s own beinghood. Decision-making is coming…
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Essential organizing principles for life
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore essential organizing principles for Life. BackgroundThis post is based on the article New Possibilities: A World That Works For Everyone – Part I by Skye Hirst. Skye Hirst explores ten essential organizing processes…
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Value-intelligence as organizing order
Foreword Value-intelligence within life is related to my interest in organizing principles. I think it’s an example of a deeper generative order for organizing that is present in anything that’s alive. Here are my other posts on organizing. Value-intelligence Skye Hirst, Co-Founder of The Autognomics Institute (TAI), presents here the idea of a Value-Intelligence present…
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Autonomic vs. allonomic orders
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” The post is part of my exploration of deeper generative orders for organizing. Other posts are here. Norm Hirst spent fifty years to understand life itself. Hirst distinguishes between being autonomic and allonomic: Living entities are autonomic. Machines are allonomic, they obey the…
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Norm Hirst on self law and non-self law
Norm Hirst makes a distinction between following self-law and non-self law which is pertinent to understanding the difference between living organisms and machines. He writes (in italics): It is useful to distinguish between entities that are autonomic, obeying self-law and entities that are allonomic, obeying non-self law. We have been led astray by our experience…
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Norm Hirst on a life-itself science
Prologomena of Life-itself Science by Norm Hirst at The Autognomics Institute is an introduction (or prologue) to a life-itself science. Below are some axioms from the paper: All life is connected All living entities are autonomous All living entities are complex All living entities are self-referential Self-referential implies self-observation and awareness Living entities survive by…
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Organisms are self-creating, not just self-organizing
Organisms are born to create and maintain their own life. They are self-creating, i.e., autopoietic; they are not just self-organizing. They maintain their own life by constantly recreating it. Their purpose is not to become machines fulfilling some external task. Thus they are autonomic, i.e., obeying self-law. They are autonomous. An organism’s purpose is to…