1. The Self-transcending Construction of an Emergent Community Jeffrey Goldstein, Ph.D. Adelphi University April 26, 2008

2. NOT: The Self-organization of an Emergent Community

3. An Example of an Emergent Social Entrepreneurial Community: Barka Foundation for the Promotion of Mutual Help

4. Barka Foundation for the Promotion of Mutual Help
In early 1990s, gov’t stopped subsidizing collective farms with the result that thousands became homeless;
Tomasz Sadowski and his wife, both psychologists, purchased abandoned schoolhouse and renovated it and started farming;
By 2003 there were 20 such homes/farms; mature “mother” houses hatch new smaller homes and farms;
Residents manage each home and farm with assistance of Barka’s staff;
One resident, “We are all people with problems…biggest miracle is that we sit at one table and talk with each... at the end of the day I feel needed”
Sadowski: “People told us that it wasn’t possible to create such an inclusive feeling…there is nothing mysterious about it. …The worst criminal doesn’t believe things can be this way only because he has never come across these kinds of relationships..”

5. Barka Foundation for the Promotion of Mutual Help
Sadowski: “People told us that it wasn’t possible to create such an inclusive feeling…there is nothing mysterious about it. …The worst criminal doesn’t believe things can be this way only because he has never come across these kinds of relationships..”
interaction resonance; possibility and hope

6. EXAMPLES OF EMERGENCE
life consciousness speciation project teams multi-organisms artificial life the Internet
magnetism superfluidity superconductivity
additional computational functionality
dissipative structures optimal options prices
perception of color attractors and their basins
drug interactions leadership behavior
software “bugs” temperature cities
wars scientific revolutions Benard cells creative ideas giant graph component
Social entrepreneurial projects

7. Characteristics of Emergent Phenomena
Radically Novel (Incommensurable)
Coordination, Integrity, Collective, Wholeness
Unpredictable (Ostensive)
Non-deducible
Irreducible (Not traceable)
Self-transcendent (Emerge out of
but distinct from)

8. Source of the Idea of Emergence: 19th,20th Centuries

9. { } { } { } { } ( , . ), w t ( , . ), a t t P ), ,... , (
Emergent Phenomena { } ( , . ), w 1 2 i n l t +
Properties { } l t i n P ), 1
,... 2 , ( + w
Emergent Bases { } ( , . ), a 1 2 i n k t
Properties { } k i n t P ),
,... , ( 2 1 a

10. BEYOND SELF-ORGANIZATION
EXCESSES OF THE “SELF-”OF SELF-ORGANIZATION

11. Decoupling of Emergence from Self-Org.
Emergent Base
(antecedents)
Emergent Phenomena
(consequents)
Typical Complexity Perspective: Self-organization=Processes of Emergence
Decoupling of Emergence from Self-Org.

12. Processes of Emergence
Emergent Base
(antecedents)
Emergent Phenomena
(consequents)
Processes of Emergence
Must be Powerful Enough to Generate Phenomena with the Properties of Emergents

13. Characteristics of Emergent Phenomena
Radically Novel (Incommensurable)
Coordination, Integrity, Collective, Wholeness
Unpredictable (Ostensive)
Non-deducible
Irreducible (Not traceable)
Self-transcendent (Emerge out of
but distinct from)

14. ? Rosen’s Non-formalizability Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Bennett’s Logical Depth
Cohen’s/Stewart’s Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions ?
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change Cardinality
Crutchfield’s Calculi of Emergence
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions

15. Rosen’s Non-formalizability
Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Bennett’s Logical Depth
Cohen’s/Stewart’s Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
(Anti-) Diagonalization
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change Cardinality
Crutchfield’s Calculi of Emergence
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions

16. Rosen’s Non-formalizability
Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Bennett’s Logical Depth
Cohen’s/Stewart’s Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
Limitative Theorems of Gödel and Turing
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change Cardinality
Crutchfield’s Calculi of Emergence
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions

17. Rosen’s Non-formalizability
Reiser’s Transfinite Aggregates
Bennett’s Logical Depth
Cohen’s/Stewart’s Existence Theorem for Emergent Phenomena
Self-transcending
Constructions
Fontana’s and Buss’s Computational Constructions
Holland’s Sets of Equations that Change Cardinality
Crutchfield’s Calculi of Emergence
Piaget’s Logico-Mathematical Constructions

18. Formalism of STC (incl. Negation) -ADAPTED FROM SIMMONS
Construction of anti-diagonal sequence to transcend cardinality of rational numbers:
Definition 1: R is a 3-place relation among x,y,z represented as D1 and D2 making-up vertical and horizontal arrays of rationals
Definition 2: A diagonal F is constructed on D1 and D2 so that the mapping is a bijection D1 --> D2
Definition 3: G is the value of the diagonal F in R
Definition 4: STC is an anti-diagonal of F in R so that
(STCxyz =¬ Gxyz)
NOTE: ¬ IS A NEGATION OPERATOR WHICH ALLOWS STC TO TRANSCEND CARDINALITY OF RATIONALS

19. { } { } { } { } ( , . ), w t ( , . ), a t t P ), ,... , (
Emergent Phenomena { } ( , . ), w 1 2 i n l t +
Properties { } l t i n P ), 1
,... 2 , ( + w
Emergent Bases { } ( , . ), a 1 2 i n k t
STC’s
Properties { } k i n t P ),
,... , ( 2 1 a

20. Emergence as Self-transcending Constructions: New logic for emergent novelty generation: following and negation Active leadership roles - establishing ecology of innovation

21. Emergent Novelty and Creativity
“In a sense, I put together elements that were already there, but that is what inventors always do. You can’t make up new elements, usually. The new element, if any, it was the combination, the way they were used.”
-- Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate for his invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

22. Emergent Novelty and Creativity
“Invention is imagination along with a pile of junk.
-- Thomas Alva Edison

23. Prigogine’s later definition of self-organization:
“…constrained situated dependentness"

24. CONSTRUCTIONAL SOURCES OF NOVELTY ALREADY EXISTING ORDER CONTAINERS
[RECURSION WITH NEGATION] (SELF-DISSIMILARITY BETWEEN SCALES)
SELF-TRANSCENDING
CONSTRUCTIONS
RANDOMNESS

25. Self-transcending Constructions, not Just Spontaneous Processes
Building Bocks as the Already Given (Structures, Dynamics, Properties)
Not Subjugation to Process or Temporal Flow
Non-Oppositional
Based on Constructional Resources and Operations
Free Act of Creativity but Not Order for Free

26. Criticalization Phenomena Morphogenesis -- Turing Phase Transitions Self-organization Self-organized Criticality

27. Turing Reaction Diffusion Symmetry Breaking
Nonlinearity and Instability
Linfa Yang
Chemical control parameters

28. Self-organizing Systems (Prigogine; Haken)
Symmetry Breaking
Order parameter ()increases
Goodwin’s Morphogenetic Fields Tc
Temperature Increase (control parameter)

29. Critical Phenomenon in Condensed Matter Physics
TemperatureDecreases (control parameter)
Symmetry Breaking Tc
Order parameter ()increases

30. Self-transcending Construction of the Emergence of a Giant Component in a so-called “random” Graph
--(from Barabasi)

34. HOPE AND TRANSCENDENCE AND STC
[...hope doesn’t] overcome the “powers defining those situations experienced as hopeless by ‘fighting’ them, rather ‘by transcending them.’
“Reflecting on hope is perhaps our most direct means of apprehending the meaning of the word ‘transcendence.’
-Gabriel Marcel

35. “Without hope we not only cannot wait,
we cannot even put one foot in front of the other.”
–Leslie Farber
“...to hope until hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.”
-Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”

36. Transcendence, Emergence, and Hope
Isaiah 43:19:
[Whose Name is “I am that I am”]
says to you,
‘Look, I am doing something new --
It is emerging right now,
Can’t you see it?
I am creating a path in the wilderness,
And rivers out of the desert.’