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Thursday, November 17, 2005
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On Founding the Taos Institute
(Return to the National
Knowledge Project Thread)
The concept of the BCNGroup Glass bead Game has been
under-development since 1991. For more
information link to { www.bcngroup.org }
Abigail
I am forwarding this as part of the Taos Institute discussion.
Also, I introduce you to my older daughter Jenni. Cat is working her way into the Rosen literature. Bill Smith is the co-inventory of the AIC (Appreciation Influence Control) www.odii.com) process development methodology. The bcc has 25 or so addresses of individuals who would be in the "third circle"
http://www.ontologystream.com/area1/primarybeads/bead3.htm
IF virtualTaos.net had already fully implemented to desired software for the bead games.
The management of virtual discussion at this level is a daunting task (and one the I love attempting).
I found a large house next to the SMU extension on Potter Creek... just outside of Taos..
It would be a perfect center home. A nearby bed and breakfast (Dragonfly) would allow extended stays for scholars like Paul Werbos or Peter Kugler.
From this center, or on property similar; the Taos Institute work could be carried forward; perhaps even being attached to SMU. Both my wife Pat and I are alumni of SMU. Judith's note, copied below is precisely the type of work we need to institutionalize... in the form of a curriculum for the knowledge sciences:
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/nationalProject.htm
Anyway, I am pleased with the phone call, and the correspondence on the possibilities that Virtual Taos presents.
I will post Judith's note into the bead game with replies as I get time today.
As is the practice with the prototyping I have been doing with the Glass Bead Game (since 1993)
http://www.bcngroup.org/site/beadgames/index.html
please see the three links (1) (2) (3) at the bottom of this page
and for technical/social discussion
http://www.ontologystream.com/area1/MemeticOntology/mappingSocialSymbols.htm
I have over 10 independent conversations going on, and only part of these am I able to manually edit and make beads out of... but there are over 400 beads (individual pages) and there is a possibility that WIKI plus a new language called Ajax might allow me to create the first automated posting mechanism for aggregating up the conceptual expressions (within lines of discourse). This software would be of huge value, but I have to have programmer support for three months to complete the system. This investment is part of the next round of investments in virtualTaos and OntologyStream Inc
The three links shows the simple concepts as I have derived them from the Magister Ludi... where the technical paper show how the technology works and the social dimensions.
Virtual Taos Investment Prospectus establishes the economic and ecommerce concepts that will be implemented over the next one of two years.
This is just background material as one more step in the introduction of the essential concepts that we first wish to form an appreciative social field