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.................................... ...................................................................... Videos #1 to #7 lay out the basics of a new language, and the others show it applied to different topics. ...................................................................... Why try to do this? ...................................................................... Because the world is in trouble! We need a common understanding. We need a way to combine ecology and economics in the same image. It must start simply, it must be based on real things, it must accelerate learning, and it must be easily translated. ...................................................................... This is an attempt to make such a language. These first videos show the basics, and a few applied topics. ...................................................................... Ecolanguage introduces a few new things: (1) the use of regular motion as a part of standard grammar, and (2) the use of a visual symmetry -- the hexagonal snowflake -- to stand for an organization of any kind, at any level of nature and society. In the center, we put the ruler. ....................................................................... Everything else is based on things which came before. ...................................................................... By using old and new things, Ecolanguage comprises: ...................................................................... (A) an international systems language, ...................................................................... (B) an accelerated learning strategy, ...................................................................... (C) an integration of important and crucial topics, and ...................................................................... (D) a scientific philosophy, emerging from many thinkers and writers over the last century, that brings the life, social, and cognitive sciences into the same picture as the physical sciences. We put the new basics of INFORMATION and ORGANIZATION alongside the established basics of MATTER and ENERGY. Now we can represent purposiveness, intention, relationship, agreement, and belief. We can locate the position of mathematical and physical deduction within a larger picture of communication and exchange. We can indicate both analysis and synthesis, including the redundancy of parts and their transcendence into wholes. It is a picture of our perceptual framework, no matter where we look. For a fun primer on this philosophy, please watch: New Chart, for Descartes. (For the old pointers, see the following bibliography.) ...................................................................... Note on these videos: the symbols were drawn in Adobe Illustrator, then animated in Adobe After Effects. ...................................................................... ......................................................................

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--ECOLANGUAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY-- ...................................................................... HOWARD T. ODUM, Environment, Power, and Society (1971, 2007).......................... GREGORY BATESON, Form, substance, and difference (1970), a lecture reprinted in: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972, 2000)...... GREGORY BATESON, Mind and Nature, a Necessary Unity (1979, 2002)...... GEORGE A. MILLER, The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information. (1956)...... FRANCES A. YATES, The Art of Memory (1966)...... HERBERT A. SIMON, How big is a chunk? (1974)...... ERICH JANTSCH and CONRAD H. WADDINGTON (eds.,) Evolution and Consciousness: Human Systems in Transition (1976) ...................................................................... And see also: ............................................... ......................................................................

Books:

ERNST MACH, The economy of science - chapter 4, section 4 of: The Science of Mechanics (1883)...... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Science and the Modern World (1925)...... L.E.J. BROUWER, Mathematics, science, and language. (1929)...... JOHN R. COMMONS, Institutional economics. (1931)...... E.A. BURTT, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (1932)...... GEORGE PERRIGO CONGER, The Horizons of Thought: a Study in the Dualities of Thinking (1933)...... ARTHUR O. LOVEJOY, The Great Chain of Being: a Study of the History of an Idea (1936)...... RONALD H. COASE, The nature of the firm. (1937)...... JAMES JOYCE, Finnegans Wake (1939)...... MAX WERTHEIMER, Productive Thinking (1945)...... LANCELOT LAW WHYTE, The Next Development in Man (1948)...... LANCELOT LAW WHYTE, The Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology (1949)...... W. ROSS ASHBY, An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956)...... NOAM CHOMSKY, Syntactic Structures (1957)...... KARL POLANYI, The Great Transformation: the Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1957)...... KARL POLANYI, Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies (1968)...... FRITHJOF SCHUON, The Transcendent Unity of Religions (1957)...... ROY A. RAPPAPORT, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People (1967)...... ROY A. RAPPAPORT, Ecology, Meaning, and Religion (1979)...... RAMON MARGALEF, Perspectives in Ecological Theory (1968)...... ARTHUR KOESTLER, Some general properties of self-regulating open hierarchic order. (1969)...... JEAN PIAGET, Genetic Epistemology (1970)...... NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971)...... G. SPENCER BROWN, Laws of Form (1972)...... ANTHONY WILDEN, System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange (1972)...... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)...... STANISLAV GROF, Systems of condensed experience - most of chapter 3 of: Realms of the Human Unconscious (1975)...... HOWARD H. PATTEE, Dynamic and linguistic modes of complex systems. (1977)...... FRANKLIN LE VAN BAUMER (ed.,) Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present, 4th edition (1978)...... HEINZ VON FOERSTER, On constructing a reality. (1979)...... HUMBERTO R. MATURANA and FRANCISCO J. VARELA, Autopoiesis and Cognition: the Realization of the Living (1980)...... HAZEL HENDERSON, The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics (1981)...... HAZEL HENDERSON, Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare (1996)...... GREGORY BATESON and MARY CATHERINE BATESON, Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred (1987)...... ELINOR OSTROM, Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990)...... ELINOR OSTROM et al. (eds.,) The Drama of the Commons (2003)...... ROBERT ROSEN, Life Itself (1991)...... MURRAY GELL-MANN, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (1994)...... HERMAN E. DALY, Beyond Growth: the Economics of Sustainable Development (1996)...... JAMES K. GALBRAITH, Created Unequal: the Crisis in American Pay (1998)...... MELVIN W. REDER, Economics: the Culture of a Controversial Science (1999)...... ROBERT D. PUTNAM, Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000)...... MARTIN H. KRIEGER, Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003)...... JAMES GUSTAVE SPETH, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (2004)...... PETER H. LINDERT, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, volume 1 (2004)...... DANIEL W. BROMLEY, Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions (2006)...... AL GORE, The Assault on Reason (2007)...... DANI RODRIK, One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2007)...... JEFFREY D. SACHS, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008).