Collaborative Time Binding
=Time Binding - Original Version=Time binding is the recognition of and building upon prior art which stands on the shoulders of giants in order to provide cultural progress (as opposed to biological progress or evolution).
This process started with oral tradition, moved into books to accelerate the process. In the digital age, this process can be supercharged to communicate not only ideas, but to do so at light speed and with the possibility of translation into reality, such as for example with digital fabrication.
Digital Age Time Binding - Introducing Collaborative Time Binding
Now an opportunity exists to take this process further, to achieve mastery over the human reptilian brain. This would be an evolutionaryileatone, as it can break right through poverty and war - promising many millennia of peace, prosperity, and unleashed progress
The common time binding process, proposed by Korzybski, is public and collaborative such that the stakeholders can collaborate with zero entry barriers and it is transparent in the sense that anyone can view the results (to promote further Time-binding). Simple digital tools such as wikis, linked to digital fabrication tools and other compilers which translate ideas and information to reality. Wikis can be used to cross link and hyperlink in formation such that Morally Intelligent AI can be created. The process has unlimited scalability and a permanent time frame.
Collaborative time binding involves a deliberate effort by multiple individuals , with no upper limit of people or agents - in which coordinated, distributed swarms can form.
The distinction between usual time binding is the level of coordination - to the point that networked swarms can be created to provide real-world surviving and thriving. Not as individuals, but as highly coordinate units, microstates, or other distributed forms of power. These can coexist within centralized systems of today, but are likely to become a new civilizationalnniem for units of organization across borders, wielding cultural and economic power. Since these are expected to transcend petty conflict characteristic of the reptilian human brain, these are expected to dominate because they are.more survivable, resilient, and antifragile - as compared to proprietary, centralized systems. The key is adaptability. Whereas centralized systems tend to grow from their initial service orientation to self-preservation and monopoly - distributed time binding swarms are much more agile. The key component of such agility is rapid learning.
Solving for the Reptilian Brain
Collaborative time binding is an important concept in that it is designed to solve for the reptilian brain (fear-based evil that occurs in society).
How? By creating knowhow, skills, learning, building character, creating security on the bottom rungs of Maslow's pyramid up to self-actualization. Doing so on the scale of Dunbar-scale groups of individuals. Creating collaborative groups of people that engage in this - co-located or remote. The groups engage in collaborative open economic development - for robust, productive wealth-creation for financial independence and thriving.
Huh? This is well possible simply by opening access to economic production, with modern information and production tools - assisted by automation and productivity that has since the 50's far outstripped production over consumption. With modern ICT and digital fabrication + automation, extreme productivity is even more possible today.
Our proposal is that collaborative swarms develop and deploy this possibility in a distributed fashion.
By focusing first on the material base, provided in a just, democratic, fair, honorable way - this then provides for belonging, social, and spiritual needs. By providing a personal security infrastructure, it allows people to begin evolving past authoritarian unfreedoms. This is just a minor transition on the trajectory of humankind - but it is also a profound one.
How? We are considering novel units of social organization based on collaborative learning/practice swarms. These swarms collaborate, up to the level of producing means of distributed and abundant economic power. The rigor for economic power exists in this method: the discipline of developing and documenting economically-significant information, and disseminating the same. Not only within the swarm, but to the external world.
The OSE Apprenticeship is a 4 year program to deliver such swarms, where after 4 years students are cultivated to participate in this. First, by expanding one's consciousness to the possibility, two, developing the necessary mindsets and skills, and three, gaining the discipline to participate in this on a regular basis.
We are proposing nothing short of thorough transformation to the possibility of a self-determined livelihood option that has the potential to unleash meaning, purpose, and abundance.
The OSE Apprenticeship aims to produce around 120-240 such individuals within 4 years, fully capable of highly coordinated development. And then we explore the possibilities of human transformation that arise from this possibility.
