Dear Organlearners,
Rich DiNapoli <dinapoli@nh.ultranet.com> writes:
> For me, there is a fascinating pattern that connects: Creativity as the
> fundamental life force,with social networks as the structural basis for
> creativity. I see both Creativity and social network formation, as
> fundamentally emergent, self organized processes.
Rich, I was very pleased with your contribution. I am willing to accept
that "creativity is the fundamental life force". But then we will not be
able to understand creativity further than life. Therefore I have gone
one step further by defining creativity itself as the result of entropy
production (irreversibility). It seems to be a very small step, but it
ellicits a grand paradigm shift.
Your interest in the relationship between creativity and networking stems
from the "fact" (sic, according to my framework) that constructive
creativity requires seven essentialities (see my post to Lee Bloomquist on
Competition). One of them is the essentiality "associativity-monadicity"
(wholeness) which is the very heartbeat of networking. Two other
essentialities are also unusually important to networking, namely
"connect-beget" (effectiveness) and "open-paradigm" (openness). In other
words, networking is the combination of these three essentialities into
one compound essential.
Networking in a LO is very much what Senge wished to capture by making
system's thinking one of the five, in fact, the fifth discipline for
understanding learning organisations. Should Senge have tried to explain a
LO in terms of creativity, it would have been a formidable task because he
would first had to explain creativity itself without invoking learning!
Best wishes
--At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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