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Integrative Design Metaphorsenabling strategic comprehension of the global brain- / - Prepared as an annex to Union
of Intellible Associations on the issue of Higher
Patterns of Order.
[For further information on this strategic initiative, see website of Union of Intelligible Associations] IntroductionVarious metaphors are implicitly used to order organizations, problems, strategies and values in articulating the challenges of governance. There is a case for reviewing thse metaphors as a set to highlight their adequacy in responding to complexity. Whilst many are adequate for some tasks, in the case of governance there is a more fundamental challenge. In an increasingly fragmented knowledge society, subject to ever increasing degrees of information and cognitive overload, there is effectively a need for cognitive "keystones" or "Rosetta stones" as interfaces between complementary, if not inherently incompatible, perspectives. This contribution therefore explore a sequence of integrative metaphors (illustrated by images) as progressively more powerful tools in this respect -- if only potentially. Where possible, reference is made to the experimental use of these metaphors in ordering the content of the online databases (on organizations, problems, strategies, values and human development) of the Union of International Associations. The global governance challenge for a knowledge-based society is seen as the design of a "Union of Intelligible Associations" -- where the functional significance of these terms is dynamically emergent rather than pre- or over-defined. The possibility of a "dodecameral global brain" is discussed.Sequence of images / metaphors (and the projection of UIA orgs, problems, strategies, etc databases into them)
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