Constructive Creativity and Leadership. Part 7. LO27711

From: Leo Minnigh (l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl)
Date: 01/24/02


Replying to LO27642 --

Dear LO'ers,

Finally I found in the corner of my home a little pile of time. So I took
carefuly some of it to read the printed contributions of At de Lange
'Constructive creativity and leadership' (LO27524, 27528, 27553, 27590,
27603, 27633 and 27642).

This series of At was another master piece of this/our/my teacher. This
series reconfirmed a lot of ideas which developed in my mind after some
years of following the products of At's free energy. This series has also
generated some new questions and meandering in my mind. And I like to put
these into our space of dialogue.

 1. Could we imagine an organisation without a leader? Is such situation
possible?
 2. Why is a leader necessary?
 3. Is the leader the member of an organisation with the highest available
amount of free energy?
 4. Could the emergence of a leader be the result of entropy production by
the organisation?
 5. Should we make a distinction between 'muscle free energy' and 'brain
free energy'. Is a balanced situation of both the ideal situation?
 6. Was the top stone of the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt carried by the
leader (the strongest) or was the leader the conductor who managed the
slaves? (If you are not strong, be smart). I have noticed the sentence of
At: "Since the spiritual is higher than the physical...", although that
was mentioned in an other context.

And then I have an intriguing problem that I carry for some time with me.
I have seriously tried to find the answer myself, but I got stuck in a
maze of philosophical questions.

 7. At wrote: 'The more complex the environment of any system, the less
the free energy that system will have for digestive purposes'. Although I
see many exemples that sustain this proposition, I see also the contrary.
We live in a world of ever increasing complexity. The proposition suggests
that the frequency of emergences of the systems that compose the entire
world will slow down - they need ever increasing time for digestion to
build up their free energy for the next bifurcative emergence. But what we
see is an ever increasing frequency of emergences, for instance in
biological evolution, in scientific and technological evolutions,
organisational evolutions, etc. Is this a sign that all of us drive to a
final bifurcation were a final immergence happens, because of not having
the patience of digestion? I don't believe in such an Armageddon.

In line with the above, At has sketched also in many other contributions
that if a system 'wants' to evolve constructively via an emergence, the 7
E's should be in balance with eachother. All of them must be tuned. I got
the impression that nature has a clever conductor who is a master in
tuning the 7 E's. To the contrary with humans, who seem to have
difficulties in this tuning and therefore 'create' the risk for
immergences to happen.

Humans are part of nature, but somehow they seem to be able to manipulate
the internal entropic forces of the 7 E's, whereas nature seems to lack
this 'manipulating' force; in nature all seems to happen in balance. What
intrigues me is the question if there is a mysterious 8th force which is
encompassing the forces of the 7 E's. A mysterious balancing force that is
present in natural processes, the RULING FORCE OF NATURE, but wich could
be overruled by humans. And thinking further on this matter, I have the
fearful feeling that I enter in an endlessly self-referring loop, because
even forces could not escape nature and the universe - they are an
integral part of it.

Well, that were the final thoughts last night in bed before I enterend my
imaginative world of dreams.

dr. Leo D. Minnigh
l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl
Library Technical University Delft
PO BOX 98, 2600 MG Delft, The Netherlands
Tel.: 31 15 2782226
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        Let your thoughts meander towards a sea of ideas.
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Leo Minnigh <l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl>

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