My World of “Ought to Be”

Friday, April 26, 2002

Morning Thoughts from Carmel, California

I am well into my strongend. Still working on the specifications for GIFTegrity. One of my realizations is that in a network of Giftors-Giftees, there is no place for anonymity.

The Giftor/Giftee relationship is only successful when both parties win and when they can trust each other. To trust someone you have to know who he is and when and where you can access him. Our current Neutral political-economic system thrives on anonymity. I don't care who, where, or when you are as long as I get my money. ...

I have also figured out some ways to make the process simpler. Simpler is always better.

I am continuing to repost Elizabet Sahtouris' wonderful book EarthDance. I know it is already available elsewhere on the internet, but my posting results in redundancy and hopefully helps more humans to find her work.

As some of you know, much of my synergic science is still off-line. I am so too busy that I always have more things to do then I have time for. Sound pretty familiar? I have decided to systematically get it all posted. I will try to work on a little bit every day, and post at least a chapter every week.

Last night, I received a nice note from Peter Corning. I had only written him Yesterday morning:

Dear Dr. Corning,

I began studying synergy in 1979. By 1981, I was thinking of myself as a synergic scientist. There were/are only a handful of synergic scientists, and with the internet, I thought I knew them all. So it was to my surprise and delight when I found a link to your paper Synergy and Self-Organization in the Evolution of Complex Systems at KurzweilAI.net. I have reposted a part of that paper at my website Future Positive.

I have since found your website with a search for synergism. I have started reading your papers and am finding them both interesting and important.

I hope you are well.

Timothy Wilken, MD

Carmel, California

SynEARTH.network

The Time-binding Trust

His response:

Dear Dr. Wilken:

Thanks for your message. Most of my recent papers are posted on my website, except for the new ones on "Synergy Goes to War..." and "Synergy and the Evolution of Superorganisms..." You might also be interested in my full-length monograph, The Synergism Hypothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution (McGraw-Hill 1983) and a new book in press at Cambridge University Press called Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind.

I see you are nearby (I'm in Palo Alto). So if you happen to come this way, do look me up.

Best wishes,

Peter A. Corning, Ph.D.
Director
Institute For the Study of Complex Systems
119 Bryant Street, Suite 212
Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA

Website: www.complexsystems.org

As I wrote in my letter there are so few synergic scientists that finding another one is indeed a pleasure.

Truth, love & synergy,

Timothy

8:21:39 AM