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Integral Emergence |
| One of the key issues in understanding integral and being able to use
it effectively is to integrate emergence. Emergence is the ability
of underlying agents, rules, tensions and conditionals to bifurcate and
self-organize at a new level of order with new properties that can not be
traced back to the origin. In complexity, we are witnessing the signs of emergence everywhere and consequently attempt to either reduce those properties to their constituent parts or mislabel the properties through a linear approach. In order to fully embrace what is integral, or integral emergence, we have to embrace emergenics: the application of emergence to problem solving. There are of course many considerations to make, but in order to begin to introduce you to what is integral...emergence, I've created a visual depiction of gross emergence utilizing four domains of effect. This, of course, is extremely oversimplified, but I have attempted to depict visually an integration of domains, frameworks, developmental stage theory, Spiral Dynamics® and organic integral theory--theory which uses emergence as the key descriptor of non-linear change, rather than linear change or growth in a line of development. This visual material is derived from the ideas that are consistent with what is integral. It would be a good idea to read the material and then view the visuals. |
