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Over de Community of Practice (in Dutch)

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Deze blog bevat een presentatie over de Community of Practice (CoP). Een CoP is een verzameling mensen die ervaring delen. Opvallend is dat de zuivere Community of Practice niet voorkomt. Dat komt omdat men Kennis (Theorie) en Ervaring (Praktijk) door elkaar haalt. De verwarring ontstaat omdat men de theorie als “dwingende” ervaring ziet. De theorie is foutloos. De gebruikers van de theorie maken fouten die worden veroorzaakt door tekortkomingen bij de gebruiker en niet in de theorie. Doordat de gebruiker volgens de regels werkt en het mislukken van de regels door de gebruiker komt en niet door de regels wordt … Continue reading Over de Community of Practice (in Dutch)

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About Darwin’s Superorganism

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Many people believe that the theor]]><![CDATA[y of Evolution is based on the concept of competition. They believe that every gene, every cell, and every organism is designed to promote its own evolutionary success at the expense of others. The big problem with this concept is that it does not explain the enormous amount of cooperation that is visible in Nature. Atoms cooperate in Molecules. Molecules cooperate in Genes. Genes cooperate in Chromosomes. Chromosomes cooperate in eukaryoticcells. Cells cooperate in Multicellular Organisms. Multi Cellular Organisms cooperate in Humans. Humans cooperate in Families and Tribes and Families and Tribes cooperate in Organizations … Continue reading About Darwin’s Superorganism

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About Morphology or How Alan Turing Made the Dream of Goethe Come True

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The Ancient Greeks believed that the images of waking life and dreams came from the same source, Morpheus (Μορφέας, Μορφεύς), “He who Shapes“. The Science of the Shapes, Morphology, was created and named by Goethe in his botanical writings (“Zur Morphologie“, 1817). Goethe used comparative anatomical methods, to discover a primal plant form that would contain all the others-the Urpflanze. Goethe being a Romantic Idealist hoped that Morphology would Unify Science and Art. “The Primal Plant is going to be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself shall envy me. With this model and the key to it, … Continue reading About Morphology or How Alan Turing Made the Dream of Goethe Come True

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About the Egyptian Pillar of God

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One Cellar Creatures, Bacteria, have no need for a central Multi-Cellar Coordi]]><![CDATA[nation system, a Central Nervous System. Their only need is to find Food (Chemicals). To find food they Move Around in the Chemical Soup with their Flagellum in a Chaotic Pattern (Creativity, Exploration) until they are Attracted by (Fall in Love with) a Source they Like. When the Bacteria are Attracted by the Food, their Creative Behavior stops. The Chaotic Pattern changes into a Stable Cyclic Pattern. The Movement of the Flagellum of the Bacterium is comparable with the Emotional System of the Human Being. The Creative and the … Continue reading About the Egyptian Pillar of God

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About Behavioral Economics: Why Hawks Always Win and Doves Always Lose

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The belief in Rational Decision Making has been the focus of Economic Theory for a very long time. Although everybody knew that Humans are Highly Impulsive and Emotional, Economists based their theoretical models of the Market on a Rational Human Being who is always able to Calculate the best Alternative possible. This Theory is wrong. The Economic Behavior is controlled by the Emotions. The current economic crisis shows that the old Rational Theory is not applicable and the attention for alternative theories of Economic Behavior is rising. These theories are called Behavioral Economics. An important paper in the development of … Continue reading About Behavioral Economics: Why Hawks Always Win and Doves Always Lose

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About the Matrix

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The Movie the Matrix states an ancient belief that we are living in a Dream World. In the old Gnostic version the Matrix is created by the Demiurg, the Creator of our Material Universe. In the new version the Dream World is created by a Computer Simulator. At this moment Physicists and Mathematicians are exploring the Concept of the Matrix and are achieving remarkable results. One of these scientists is Reginald Cahill. He has developed a challenging theory called Process Physics. One of the most important experiments in Physics was the Michelson and Morley experiment in 1887. The aim of … Continue reading About the Matrix

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About The Limits of Reason

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You can always find an infinite amount of equations that fits a finite set of points. When the set of points changes the equation changes. This represents a major problem when you want to find a general pattern. The solution is to assume that the pattern behind the set of points has to be a Simple Equation (or a Simple Law). A  theory has to be simpler than the data it explains, otherwise it does not explain anything. To define Simplicity we have to define a tool that measures the simplicity of an equation. Mathematicians have tried to solve this … Continue reading About The Limits of Reason

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About Epigenics

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Many people think that Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution but they are wrong. The predecessor of Darwin was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). In all the textbooks the evolution theory of Lamarck is highly discredited. He was totally wrong and Darwin was absolutely right. Lamarck was a fool. In his days he was blocked by the Ruling Power in Science because he attacked the major paradigm in society, “Only The Best Survive“. Like Darwin, Lamarck concluded that species change over time by adapting to new environments. Like Darwin, Lamarck concluded that parents pass their traits on to their offspring. He … Continue reading About Epigenics

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About the Hyperdiamond

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The beauty of our Universe is highly related to what mathematicians call symmetry. A structure is symmetric when it is possible to find a function that maps the structure unto itself. A simple example is mirror-symmetry. In this case the structure looks the same when it is reflected in a mirror. Another example is rotational symmetry. The structure returns when it is rotated. The symmetries can be combined to create more complex symmetries. For more than a century mathematicians are trying to create a periodic table of elements of all the possible symmetries called symmetry groups. The “classification theorem” of … Continue reading About the Hyperdiamond

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About Story-Based-Games

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About ten years ago I was asked to write a book. It was the first time somebody asked me to do this. The person who asked me to write a book was the former director of a foundation called SMO, Wim de Ridder. SMO is a Dutch think tank paid by many big companies in the Netherlands. Together with Wim de Ridder, Erik Vreedenburgh and Gerard Rijntjes a team was formed. We wanted to explore a concept called Open Form. Open Form uses the principles of evolution. We organized the book as a process. We started to interview many scientists … Continue reading About Story-Based-Games