Uplift Academy Linguistic Shell
This page lists some of the pattern languages which are
being developed for the Uplift Academy
(www.upspace.org).
These begin as very abstract representations of discourse
and ways of knowing which will appeal to only a limited set
of people. However, the patterns become more concrete
(HIV/AIDS, for example) which may be understood by a
progressively larger audience.
(coming soon) HIV/AIDS orphans pattern language is a specific
application of these ideas to the HIV/AIDS crisis. These patterns
discuss one of humanity's greatest challenges over the next decades.
This pattern language takes the perspective that this problem is
actually one of the most uplifting opportunities facing the world today.
This approach is to create scalable ways of connecting people to allow
them to share in the uplift process, connecting people at their positive
core values. Giving people all over the world the opportunity to make a
positive difference is itself an uplifting experience, a phenomenon
which could become contagious and trigger a more generalized uplift
cascade.
- The Conversation Pattern Language
- Conversation Pattern Language is a pattern which describes an overview
of conversation for collaboration. These conversations allow the
declaration of Contexts, which can be other pattern languages, allowing
a group to name its patterns of discourse, as well as evolve them over
time. This language allows a conversation to evolve over time,
coevolving what we know with what we don't know. Some of these patterns
which may shape this process are listed below.
- The Unknowledge Pattern Language
- Unknowledge Patterns describe ways of talking about that which is
unknown. For example, the discovery of the periodic table of the
elements created a pattern of information about what we didn't know
about the elements, until we "filled in the blanks." These "named
voids" in our knowledge were powerful attractors, and shaped the
discourse of science. Are there other ways of naming voids which shape
our discovery? The discovery of zero, a "missing nothing," was one of
the turning points in Western thought. Are there other missing nothings
lurking about, waiting to be discovered? If so, how do we name these
voids, and to what end? This is the stuff of unknowledge management.
- The ScaleFree Pattern Language
- Scale Free Patterns give us some tools to talk about things which occur
across many different scales. HIV/AIDS, for example, can be viewed from
various characteristic scales: genetic, cellular, immune system, person,
family, community, national, or evolution of the species. ScaleFree
gives us some tools for talking about things which cross many scales -
the intrinsics of the situation. It allows us to link things across
divergent scales, and to think in terms of Foamy Spaces, which have
fractal properties, rather than dense fixed dimensions. Is there a way
to build a fractal browser which gives us the ability to view things
from the perspective of their intrinsics? Is there a way of using foamy
spaces to understand complex, multi-scale, multidimensional systems?
Can we speak about cascades of activities caused by intrinsics? Can we
discover activation energies which are capable of causing a cascade of
uplift?
- The Uplift Pattern Language
- Uplift patterns relates to a pattern language for uplift, a way of
supporting positive discourse for humanitarian uplift. By focusing on
the positive form of discourse, we are creating unknowledge which in
turn shapes our discoveries. Combining patterns in novel ways allows us
to create Uplift tapestries, weaving together what we know is uplifting
with the voids in which these uplift patterns have not been applied. In
the same way that the periodic table of the elements gave us a framework
for discovering new properties of the elements, the uplift tapestry
gives us a framework for discovering new patterns of uplift. Uplift
patterns may be specialized to specific domains of discourse, for
example HIV/AIDS orphans.
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