1. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 1 Form is Meaning Presented by Kenan Doyle Branam Paradigm Communications, Inc. kenan@branam.com

2. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 2 Knowledge thus exists in relationship rather than in an "objective" world or in "subjective" experience. In information theory, "information" is defined in terms of a "relationship" between an input and a receiving devise. A book contains no information for someone who can't read. The Holographic Model - John R. Battista Information Is Relationship

3. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 3 Theory Evolution Past Paradigm Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Future Paradigm

4. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 4 Past Paradigm Centric Linear logic (1D+Time) Segregated Filtered (Reductionistic) Static Structure

5. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 5 Present Paradigm Distributed Process logic (2D+Time) Networked Contextual Dynamic Structured

6. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 6 Future Paradigm Chaotic Form logic (3D+Time) Integrated Wholistic Extensible Structure

7. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 7 Future Paradigm Science is increasingly substituting organic models for mechanical models and shifting from structure-orientated to process- orientated thinking.

8. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 8 Cognitive Modalities Gestalt Process Quantum Physics Systems Theory Process Makes Sense

9. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 9 Cognitive Modalities Stimulus/Response Pattern Recognition Concept Formulation Creative Adaptation

10. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 10 Gestalt Process Figure/ground Discrimination Assimilation Integration Reformation

11. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 11 Albert Einstein “A human being is part of the Whole. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion (of separateness and egocentricity) is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our own personal desire and to affections for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of Compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

12. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 12 Quantum Physics “… a system cannot be analyzed into parts. This leads to the radically new notion of unbroken wholeness of the entire universe. You cannot take it apart. For if you do, what you end up with is not contained within the original whole. It is created by the act of analysis.“ David Bohm Wholeness and the Implicate Order

13. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 13 Systems Theory Many so called “Systems” theories, attempt to define, structure, and control various complex (chaotic?) living systems existing at the cell, organ, organism, group, organization, society, political, and astronomical levels.

14. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 14 A New Kind of Science Creator of Mathematica software Cellular automata By Stephen Wolfram http://www.stephenwolfram.com/

15. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 15 M. C. Escher http://www.mcescher.com/ “…Perhaps I am not far removed from Einstein's curved universe".

16. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 16 Form Is Meaning Human Genome FullerinesFractals Sacred Geometry

17. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 17 Human Genome All matter contains information. “Mapping” the genome confronts us with the astounding realization that form has meaning. Meaning is not so much in the individual molecules but in their relationship to the whole pattern of the gene. http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_ Genome/publicat/publications.html

18. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 18 Fullerines Carbon 60, a hollow cluster of pure carbon atoms, is the roundest, most symmetrical large molecule known. It is very strong and stable, capable of surviving the temperature extremes of outer space. 1985 -Rice University by Richard E. Smalley, Harry Kroto, and associates

19. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 19 Fractal Forms A mathematics-based, computer imaging science enabling visual understanding of natural processes such as weather forecasting, population biology, political, and economic analysis.

20. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 20 Sacred Geometry Geometrical archetypes permeating the structure of all organic and inorganic form, from the minuscule to cosmic, defines principles of interconnectedness, inseparability, and relationship underlying all the physical universe.

21. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 21 E8Perie Mandala An exceptional simple Theory of Everything

22. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 22 What are our information rights and responsibilities? Will our instant collective opinion make a difference world-wide? Will mass consciousness develop self awareness, integrity, and responsibility? MetaMedia Beyond Technology

23. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 23 This PowerPoint presentation is available for download at: http://www.branam.com/makingsense/ Web Links Web Links

24. Introduction Past Paradigm Present Paradigm Future Paradigm Process Makes Sense Form is Meaning MetaMedia Making Sense of the InFormation Age Copyright 2005 - Paradigm Communications, Inc. 24 Thank you for being here! Form is Meaning Presented by Kenan Doyle Branam Paradigm Communications, Inc. kenan@branam.com