Sunday, May 16, 2004

What is important in this life?

What makes us human, what makes us ethical, and what gives us hope, depth and perspective?

There are three form / functions that define an increasingly perfected state within an experience:

  • The first form that defines our humanity is continuity, and its most basic function, a simple perfection, is to create order.
  • The second form is symmetry and its function is to create relations.
  • The third form is dynamics and its perfection, a complex function, is harmony.

Every scientific and religious assertion, both seeking to understand and define the universal, begins with the same first principle and evolves within its own understanding to the second and third.

This is also the basis of the value chain. The more perfect a moment or an experience is, OR the more perfected a thing or system is, the more valuable it becomes. Thus, we have the beginnings of business.

Any assertion that counters life's evolving perfections is not religion (at best, it's a cult); it is also not business (it's exploitation or a bad company); certainly it is not good government; and most often, it is not even good science.

There are scientific endeavors that observe, quantify and qualify that which is fundamentally based on discontinuities or chaos, but these studies require the inherent continuities of mathematics and other universal constants to even grasp the nature of that discontinuity.

This is a starting point. And from this starting point came a television series, Small Business School.