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