Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from July 2003

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from July 2003

Our challenge in the 21st century: conscious, self-guided evolution. (Guest Editorial).
July 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION After seven million years of evolutionary journey, our species has arrived at the most crucial point of its existence. Homo sapiens sapiens has now acquired an understanding of how we have evolved and of the rules and...

Self-guided/conscious evolution. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In the course of the evolutionary journey of our species, there have been three seminal events. The first happened some seven million years ago, when our humanoid ancestors silently entered on the evolutionary scene. Their...

The self-guiding evolution of civilizations. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2003... In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness. Carl Jung SELF-REFLECTIVE SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE I believe that our core evolutionary...

Integral Science: rethinking civilization using the learning universe lens. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Western civilization is in transition. After 300 years of great expectations leading to stark realities, we are abandoning modernity's machine theory of life and sweeping into the integral era with a brand-new 'web'...

Conscious evolution: the next stage of human development. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2003... CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION The human species is facing a great transition from one stage of evolution to the next. In our generation, Homo sapiens sapiens has gained unprecedented technological and social power to either destroy this world as...

Boundary-spanning dialogue for the 21st-century agoras. (Research Paper).
July 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Dialogue is a vehicle for understanding cultures and subcultures in organizations. And organizational learning depends upon such cultural understanding. It facilitates the development of a common...