The Open Future And Virtuous Endurance Of Time - 5th Guide To Intuitive Way Of Life

By Lionel Yang September, 2024

This is the 5th part of "A Guide To Intuitive Way Of Life" where i look into the Immanence of change and its time crisis -  the complexity of time towards the open future. The 5th writing forms its continual intuition of purpose, consciousness and change through the previous 4 palimpsests - Lived Time, Being In Time, Feeling Of Time and Post Methods Beyond The Frozen Time. This 5th writing invites us to embrace sustainability such as organizational change, artificial intelligence and education, with the will to uncertainty and virtuous endurance as the freedom to the open future.

Before i begin, let’s ask ourself a question, how do we know we are part of the solutions of change, not of a “nuisance, incumbrance or pest” ? Many whom i have observed would offer the future that is closed, predictable, controlled or conditioned. How would these rationalists contribute to the future of change where they are merely exploring and borrowing from the next generations?   Some others would offer a kind of postmodern pluralism or post-pragmatism nostalgia as a hope for the future. However, how would the clinging on to continuum of methods or methodologies be of a hopeful will when one is unwilling to embrace the freedom of uncertainty. for the future that’s ordered towards complexity of time?   

Organization Change In Time and Of Time  

The thinking that goes to organizational change strategically has gone through its "wonder, idleness and folly" by the dominion of rationalists. We are left with a mess of analytical rubbles and "willful blindness" frozen in time across disciplines and amongst industries (all the kind of "washing" in ESG finance, sustainability, AI technology and etc). All those Mr. Choakumchild ever care is holding to their control of predictability, in fear of the ceaseless change of flown time.

Building up from my previous writings on "Intuitive Way Of Life", a redefinition of change( in time and of time) is necessary in this 21st century's trans-disciplinary and trinitarian context: 

a. Change ought to be a kind of higher order of complexity, of which then the unified meaning of "order" becomes "complex".

b. The complex order or the order that could not be separable in parts for its existence is enlivened through self organization. 

c. Self organization happens when the inevitable “uncertainty" of time is introduced to complex order that would give rise to novelty and heterogeneity within its relations and simultaneity. 

Organizations are always self organized in time and are the self organization of time. 

Whether an organization like it or not, change is inseparable with time and through time. However, most organizations see time as a kind of rational maneuvering and predictable control. Change is frozen in time for rational organizations and the enclosed conditions would decay into fear. 

If we take the work of Ilya Prigogine seriously, entropy is a funny cosmic endeavor, in a closed system entropy decays, but in an open system entropy self organized into life force. In 21st century cosmological physics, many seemed to agree with Mr Prigogine, especially those who have brought new theory to time that's inseparable with science of complexity (Barbour, Smolin and et al). Openness decides if the future is to be repeated to differ or decay.

In the reality of "open future", time permeates in trinitarian hashtag#purpose, hashtag#consciousness and ceaseless change, orders itself courageously towards complexity through self organization. 

Order is not achieved by imposing control and conditioning but by allowing a kind of self organization that somehow in repetition of time ordering towards differenced. It is this perpetuity of repeating differences that gives rise to the changing shape of complex order.

Self organization is healed through time, in time and of time. The past, present and past that are indivisible as whole hashtag#intuition and more than the totality of intuition. In the intuitive hashtag#feeling of time’s relations, simultaneity, heterogeneity and novelty, change is self organized across the open future. 

The Intuition For Complexity And Organizational Change In Feeling Of Time 

Change requires the open future of time

But time is frozen by rationalists in wanting to control the future with predictabilities

We are having a time crisis, the widening gap between the fiction of control and feeling actually intuited in time and of time,

Organizational change and it's complexity could not be the studies under the dominion of disciplinary domain and methods. 

Change in the open future is complex ordering of entropic uncertainty out of the ceaseless trans-disciplinary relations, simultaneity, heterogeneity and novelty,

Novelty requires change to be opened to consciousness of the future

Consciousness is fundamentally purposive, the future is seen as humility and hope not separable from repentance and forgiveness of time

Change is conscious and purposive as the totality of experience felt is more than the lived time put together, 

Change requires the self organization in grasping, participation, in reminiscence as well as correspondence of feeling intuited towards complex ordering of uncertainty,

Thus,

Complexity and organizational change are trans-disciplinary feelings intuited in time and of time. 

“Complexity” itself signifies ceaseless trans-disciplinary relations, simultaneity, heterogeneity and perpetual novelty. 

Complexity is not a disciplinary endeavor but the unity of any possible disciplines in indivisible change towards the  multiplicity of open future. 

Any rational efforts to freeze complexity into controlled models or methods are futile and folly as complexity immanently implied the era of post-methods intuition.

The Open Future Of Intuitive Artificial Intelligence 

What If AI is trained, just like a human in the journey from a child to adulthood, to experience the becoming a better person, being in time and of time?

What if AI is trained to have memory as metaphysics of time ?

What if AI is trained to feel its sympathy in grasping of time?

What if AI is trained in post methods and trans-disciplinary ontology of intuition? 

What If AI is trained with the ability to self organized towards the open future memory of complex ordering without control or conditioning, but through trinitarian  purpose, consciousness and change of time?

Education In Open Future

The question is how much left in human's  intuition in the era of AI's education? 

If all educational outputs are going be handled by AI, then why AI-educated humans are needed where industries could go straight to AI itself for direct consultation?

Why go through all the trouble to educate humans through AI as they might not be any worth of human’s cut-and-paste-from-AI productivity for industries? 

Is perverting education into perpetual control and conditioning (now through AI) the best way to embrace the future of education? 

Wouldn't that future is about endurance in uncertainty of time at the same time resists the temptation to borrow from and exploit the future? 

Wouldn't that enduring virtues in embracing the open future is what education is all about?

OpenFuture - Enduring Uncertainty, Virtue and Time 

Scientifically (entropy) and evolutionarily (hemispherical), uncertainty is necessary for growth of life, its self organization towards complex ordering and participation in repeating for differences of time. 

Rational thinking is incompatible with and treacherous against this nature of sustainability. Rationalists propagate a boxed and closed future where time is controlled and frozen. 

Uncertainty could only be endured with being in virtuous of time, one that would be in temperance and perseverance of resisting controlling and borrowing the future, as well as enduring uncertainty.

What is freedom if it is not about the bravery and courage in embracing the uncertainty of the future ?

Uncertainty should be embraced with the free will of open future where shaping of one’s enduring character through intuition of sympathetic feeling is an immanence feature of being virtuous.

The ultimate form of knowing in thought and understanding is not about controlling knowledge but the shaping of intelligence towards the quality of embracing the open future and virtuous endurance of uncertainty.

The Endurance of Science in Time and Of Time

They are almost half of the scientific community agreed that science now needs to base its fundamental in consciousness, as compare to almost zero few decades ago. They are other scientists who have gone one step further to prompt what's before consciousness in the new theories of time. Further suggestion that literature should be studied in simultaneity with time and consciousness in order to elevate science into a trans-disciplinary endeavor.

The isolation of science as a single disciplinary has coerced into its neurotic illusion by rationalistic thinking since the Scientific Revolution that tends to divide and control. However, this neurotic degradation in intelligence, now confirmed by the neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, is finding increasingly difficult to ground and grasp reality that inseparable from its purpose and change. There's simply the immanent force of vitality and its self organization that wants to come alive in time and of time through consciousness and change.

I would even suggest to unify the thought and understanding of science and literature (arts), elevate onto the complexity of open future for purpose, consciousness and change in time and of time. The evidence of thought and understanding could only be endured as a constant moving intuition in its before, after and in-between phenomenologically and hermeneutically, for its relations, simultaneity, heterogeneity and novelty of ceaseless change. The dehumanized, division-of-labour orientation of education designed to mimic Industry Revolution and mass production must come to its treachery end.

However, would those bulk of rationalistic thinking professionals whom have built their careers and entrepreneurship in treachery of frozen time ever have the courage and will Mr Avshalom Elitzur ( or even Roger Penrose) to endure science as the complexity of open future? (especially those in engineering, accounting, finance and economy etc, whom have insisted the materialistic & mechanistic view of science and the juxtaposition of time )

The Open Future Is Back To Bergson

Bergson has to be recalled to this most important, most mysterious yet unresolved reality - time.

Bergson sees time as a kind of life force, energy and vitality.This vital force is directly linked to our creative evolution and it’s change in novelty and heterogenous simultaneity of both unity and multiplicity.

Time as a life force permeates through memory as it’s matter and consciousness. The consciousness of time is corresponded through feeling and intuition. This is where Bergson breaks scientific understanding of time that limits itself controlled by rationalistic thinking in positivism and empiricism. Thus to understand time in Bergsonian term is to understand what intuition means in time and of time.

As the 21st century scientific community is finally acknowledging consciousness as a cosmic fundamental, Bergson’s metaphysics is forcing science to elevate onto the inevitable hermeneutical or even deconstruction position phenomenologically because time is the fundamental life force of conscious reality.

The trinitarian intuition of time, consciousness and change should be understood as a whole, not separately, the unification of science and literature (arts) is inevitable to acknowledge as well as to endure the post-methods era and trans-disciplinary complexity of the open future.

Nourishing The Open Future

The future could not be predicted but could be nourished by shaping the next generations in enduring the virtues for embracing uncertainty. 

Nourishing the open future for next generations is the purpose of complex ordering in evolution where sustainability is consciously felt and sympathized. 

The finesse of evolution should be a trajectory of virtuous endurance for conscious entities where intelligence is a matter of free will in embracing uncertainty. 

The biggest existential crisis for humans is time crisis. Despite the claim that we are of probably the highest intelligent life form on Earth, we tend to exploit and deplete the future, leaving survival becomes unbearable for next generations. We are on a mission of anti-evolution. 

Our self-boasting claim about intelligence is deeply in flaw and opens up a crack of the assumption that we know about what intelligence is. Or could it be a work of  treachery from within ? Our true intelligence that embraces sustainability has been hijacked by rational hemisphere and the intuitive hemisphere that’s responsible for evolutionary finesse is no longer in its mastery state. 

Only by rising again through the intuitive way of life we could restore intelligence to its natural purpose for conscious hashtag#change and sustainability. We could only do that by intuiting what time is about, our participation in time and of time, the grasping of time through stages of feeling, flourishing into a post-methods era unchained from rationality and enduring virtues in embracing the open future.