Reflexivity as Integrity: Toward Earth/Life 4.0
Robert David Steele – Earth Intelligence Network (501c3) – Oakton, Virginia 22124
Science – both hard science and social science –
has lost its way in a descending spiral of subdisciplinary isolation. It is time to begin working
toward the goal of restoring integrity by applying
holistic analytics, an emerging science of its own
that fully integrates all relevant disciplines and all
relevant information about “true costs”. By
combining Cognitive Science and Collective
Intelligence using Reflexivity as the over-arching
cognitive, intuitive, and philosophical frame, we
can achieve Science and Web 4.0.
Reflexivity, rooted in the ideas and integrities of
Buckminster Fuller and the design science of
Russell Ackoff, is recognized as the critical mental
tool-kit necessary to begin this reconstruction of
science and society. The practical means of achieving
reflexivity across all boundaries can be found in The
Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency,
Truth, & Trust (Evolver Editions Random House, June
2012). It requires Multinational, Multiagency,
Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing
and Sense-Making (M4IS2), in turn resting on open
access by all minds to all information all the time.
This presentation, from a humanities perspective
rather than from a cybernetics perspective, will
present the key figures from the
forthcoming book, and offer an opportunity
for interactive dialog about the meaning of
Reflexivity in a local to global context where
intelligence (decision-support) and integrity
are required if humanity is to avoid doing
further damage to the biosphere within
which it exists.
Ultimately Reflexivity appears to be a
cultural phenomenon, one that demands a
valuation of all human minds as being
priceless, all human beings as deserving of
the dignity of being heard, and human
society as the means by which Reflexivity
can design for sustainability. We are
entering Epoch B. All governments, corporations, and organizations are organized for Epoch A. The purpose of
Reflexivity is to flip the tortilla and return all of us to holistic integral consciousness.