Our “Perceptions” of the World are Going through a “Sea/See Change”
Humanity – and therefore, business - is faced with redefining the very nature of our “reality”! Consider what leading-edge sciences are discovering –
Quantum physics
Quantum physics has discovered that matter is not “real” as we have thought it to be.
What we have considered to be solid is actually frequencies of energy and light.
Life is intimately interconnected in what quantum physics calls “entanglement”. Several experiments from 1999 to the present have proven that “entanglement” is primary to various sizes of systems, and time and space are secondary. Our primary interconnectedness has big impacts for ecological business & social responsibility.
Newtonian “fixed” ways of seeing the world are yielding to seeing through Einstein’s theory of “Relativity” (& Heisenberg’s “uncertainty” principle re: the observer) - forcing us to recognize that our very “perception” affects everything else.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience has discovered that feelings precede thoughts – and that emotion (heart) divorced from reason (mind) is unintelligent – i.e., incapable of complex synthesis and integration. This is why EQ (“emotional intelligence”) is more vital than IQ. Our own brains are immense frontiers of new perception and choice.
Biology
Biology has discovered that the human genome is not just a memory bank, with controllable predictability (e.g., for cloning) but replicates itself according to certain unpredictable patterns that change for reasons we cannot exactly define. In “new biology” - the focus has shifted from the cell’s nucleus to its membrane as intelligently sensing and adapting to its environment. Bio-mimicry and synthetic biology are transforming business products and processes.
Astronomy
Astronomy is discovering that our Milky Way Galaxy is not a fixed system, but an evolving, breathing, dynamic system – and that we are in a “multi-verse” – not a universe.
Information technology
Information technology has linked us together - 24/7. Social Technologies are transforming business & democracy, such as Twitters’ impact on the “Arab Spring”.
Ecological impacts
Ecological impacts have forced us to recognize that the ways we use Earth’s resources are short-sighted, dangerous, and have caused climate change, species extinction and reduced human fertility. “Convergence” is needed across segmented disciplines to mirror the fact that we are interdependent, interconnected and “entangled” with all life.
Global economies
Global economies are intertwined & the mutual impacts so powerful that we’re being forced to expand our assumptions about “free markets” to include social responsibility. Western & Eastern economies are coming together – and facing the need to redesign old models.
Local, community-based economies
Local, community-based economies are rising around the world to support healthier living and working (e.g., the “Transition movement”)
and MUCH more!