Interview w/ Dr. Sally Goerner on chaos theory, energy flow networks, & societal transition

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b_nlcHyDCVY

With advanced degrees and professional experience in computer science, engineering, nonlinear dynamics and psychology, Dr. Goerner’s specialty is showing how a range of major social, scientific, economic and political crises and alternatives can all be seen as part of one common evolutionary transition. She has lectured extensively in Europe, Japan and the USA on how the integral framework provides a unifying understanding that can crystallize the shift from crumbling, modern nation-states to a more intelligent and sustainable global civilization. She has authored over fifty articles and five books. Less formally, Dr. Goerner is best thought of as scientific missionary devoted to giving those already struggling with change in business, education, health and the community a solid foundation and a clear vision of how their fragments of reform fit within a larger picture of what we need to do survive as a civilization.

0.min-10.min: Dr. Goerner’s eclectic background; general systems theory; studying under Ralph Abraham; patterns & strange attractors; physical vs. spiritual; order-producing universe; energy network science vs. chaos theory; popular misconceptions surrounding chaos theory; lost meaning & lost science

10.min-20.min: Energy flow networks; self-organization vs. classical mechanization; basic elements of chaos theory; complementarity & chaos; boiling water & hydrodynamic self-organization; autopoetic cycles; bifurcation points

20.min-30.min: Orders & David Bohm; entropy as a subtle form of order; quantum chaos; fractal orders; particles as localized energy flow; linear vs. non-linear systems; importance of coupling; determinism

30.min-40.min: Reconceptualizing evolution; information & self-organization produce evolution; adapting to information & crises; co-evolution & stages of consciousness; fractal hierarchy & panarchy; distributed power & learning to listen; autopoetic genesis of DNA; Freeman Dyson’s energy accident

40.min-50.min: Holographic DNA; Stephen Jay Gould; aperiodic evolutionary jumps; Darwinism & elite politics; fallacy of Social-Darwinism; Dawkins & free-market society; How the Leopard Changed Its Spots; development of the prefrontal cortex; reforming economics & finance; economics as a complex metabolism; appealing to power-brokers; bio-mimicry & development; needs hierarchies & dysfunction

50.min-60.min: Necessary conditions for self-organization; corruption; focus on what energizes you; thinking outside the box; reading & synthesizing; the politics of resignation; transition from medieval worldview to modern age; distortion of society’s root metaphor; After the Clockwork Universe

60.min-69.min: Bifurcations & social change; Jean Gebser & integral society; solutions & education; local order & global order; restoring integrity; reciprocity & the science of cooperation; time-banking; beyond charity; banking reform; international development of networks vs. GDP growth; constraining metrics & NGOs

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A couple more videos of Dr. Goerner from April, 2012 lecture series in Chapel Hill, NC on self-organization & economic/cultural development:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9tGSCOLEryA

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=atZm69-V74k