The AND of the World:Dealing with Complexity
Dr. Bob Deutsch
Brain Sells LLC
The Third Millennium:The Context Is TOO
• Too Fast• Too Complex
The Escalation of UN-
• Un-certainty• Un-predictability• Un-decodability
The World of Unconnected Dots:An Endless Series of Staccato NOWs
The World Is Between Mythologies
• The current context of the world is: “I don’t know what the current context of the world is”
Nothing Is All of One Piece Anymore
“Nowadays, things are always advancing, getting better, sometimes for the worse.”
-- A Kansas City Housewife
Complexity is the Air We Breath
Shakespeare’s World of
To Be OR Not To BeIs a Quaint Illusion
To Be AND Not To Be.That is the Challenge.
What Are We To Do?
My Answer
The 5 Essentials
• Curiosity
• Openness
• Sensuality
• Paradox
• Self-Story
Deep Dive
An Insight from Vaclav Havel:Explanation v Understanding
An Insight from Normal mailer:Live IN Feeling
Einstein’s Embodied Body
Q before ABoris Yeltsin: A Case In Point
For Innovation & Creativity,Nothing is Off-Topic
Denial of Complexity or seeking a
Least-Common-DenominatorCan No Longer Suffice
Go Beyond Familiarity
Or Else
Nobu’s Surprises
Feynman’s Fish
Ferragamo:Making Abundance from Scarcity
Norman Mailer’s Crystals
Ascending to Brilliance
Analyst Types “Chunking”
Extent and ConnectivityKnowledgeProcess
Analytical Function
Knowledge Representation
CausalityGraphic
Representation
RoutinizerFew
dimensions
Partially connected,
partially complete
Description (past)
Discrete (correspondence
with literal details)
Linear
AnalyzerMulti-
dimensions
More fully connected, complete
Classification, explanation
(present)
Simple, direct inferences
Relational
SynthesizerMulti-
dimensions and relations
Connected, complete, indexical
Prediction (near-term
extrapolation)
Systemic (abstractions &
Stories)Transactional
CreatorPatterns and
principles
Connected, complete, indexical,
transformational (automatic)
Long-term strategizing
Underlying structures
(Meta-Stories)Contextual
Increasing
Complexity
The Paradoxical Challenge of Modernity:
Can I Expand My Identity Without Negating My Identity?
A Shaman’s Lesson: Living in Paradox