Consciousness, spirituality and right decision negotiation in purposeful complex adaptive systems

Authors
Citation
Mf. Shakun, Consciousness, spirituality and right decision negotiation in purposeful complex adaptive systems, GR DECIS N, 8(1), 1999, pp. 1-15
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Management
Journal title
GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION
ISSN journal
09262644 → ACNP
Volume
8
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1 - 15
Database
ISI
SICI code
0926-2644(199901)8:1<1:CSARDN>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Both cybernetic acid self-organizing, purposeful complex adaptive systems ( PCAS) express purpose by solving problems defined by choosing and deliverin g values to participants as operational goals through decision making. Indi viduals, groups, organizations, and economies are PCAS. Here we focus on in dividuals and groups. Evolutionary Systems Design (ESD) is a universal (cul ture independent) general problem solving, formal modeling/design framework for PCAS that can be computer implemented in same time/same place or telew ork modes. Formally in ESD sets of elements and their relations modeling a PCAS evolve through cybernetics/self organization. Spirituality and the con cept of right decision/negotiation in PCAS are discussed in relation to con sciousness. Rightness comes from spirituality, i.e., consciousness experien cing oneness. Oneness is integrally bound with love; hence the term oneness /love. Through right decision/negotiation PCAS try to realize their ultimat e purpose to live Two (the relative, the process of all there is) as One (t he absolute, all there is). Oneness/love, connectedness to One, promotes pr oblem solving and negotiation - expressed formally in the ESD problem repre sentation - that is at the same time right. Simply put, right problem solvi ng requires oneness/love and delivers oneness/love. Computer and receiver m odes of consciousness are discussed in relation to oneness/love and its abs ence experienced as separateness/fear. Ways to transit from the latter to t he former are considered. P.L. Yu's Habitual Domain (HD) framework is intro duced and discussed in relation to ESD. Evolutionary heuristics for evoluti on of an ESD right problem representation through cybernetics/self-organiza tion are presented based on combined HD and ESD concepts. Then operational procedures for defining and validating a right problem for an individual or group and associated right decision/negotiation outcome are considered. Th us, the work contributes to procedural rationality - how decisions should b e or are made - in purposeful complex adaptive systems. The paper suggests that for humans to live fully (awake) is to live in our love-based spiritua lity, in the moment, consciousness experiencing oneness/love at the edge of chaos, challenged in our purpose to live Two as One by spiritual or right decision/negotiation through cybernetics/self-organization, i.e., problem s olving under oneness. Artificial agents in PCAS may participate in right de cision/negotiation. They may in principle have consciousness but the nature of the subjective experience is unclear.