Transforming the Ideosphere to Become Authentic Thinkers

The ideosphere is the realm of biological evolution. It is the "place" where thoughts, theories and ideas are thought to be created, evaluated and evolved. The health of the ideosphere can be measured by its person-to-person diversity.

The ideosphere isn't considered to be a physical place by most people. It's instead "inside the minds" of all the humans in the world. It's also, sometimes, believed that the Internet, books and other media could be considered to be part of the ideosphere.

Alas, as such media aren't aware, it cannot process the thoughts it contains. (Quoted From Wikipedia)

According to philosopher Yasuhiko Kimura, the ideosphere is presently in the form of a "concentric ideosphere" where ideas are generated by a few people with others merely perceiving and accepting these ideas from these "external authorities." He advocates an "omnicentric ideosphere" were all individuals create new ideas and interact as self-authorities.

The ideosphere contrasts with the geosphere (Earth and its atmosphere) and the biosphere (regions of the surface, atmosphere and hydrosphere occupied by living organisms). 

Both are physical and visible. Since reality is inversely proportionate to sensibility, the ideosphere is more real than the geosphere or the biosphere. It's the most immediate environment there is because it exists without a boundary between the inside and outside. It has a powerful influence on our minds and consciousness, our thoughts and actions.

Most people don’t think, they are being thought, by beliefs and thought patterns that have conditioned their minds.  Even to the point of forming cultures to support these beliefs. 

When we don’t think we become less thoughtless and behave the same way. This eventually leads to the breakdown of the moral fiber of society and civilization. We must transform the ideosphere so that we can become authentic thinkers.

Currently the ideosphere has external “authorities” at the center surrounded by circles of believers and followers, wherein they do the thinking for the followers and believers. 

Even our educational system is designed to provide educationally-specialized, intellectually-proficient and professionally-marketable, non-thinking adults who are content to follow external authorities rather than take personal responsibility to really think and question these so called authorities.

Authentic thinking requires self-authorship, which in turn requires genuine self knowledge, which is silent in our educational system today.  

“The most thought provoking thing in this most thought provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”  --Martin Heidgger

The new configuration must consist of intellectually and spiritually sovereign individuals who are autonomous yet interconnected centers of the ideosphere.  They must be self-authorities in the matter of thinking, knowing and action, generators of their own thoughts and in control of their own ideas. 

The Internet is the manifestation of and the apparatus for this new omnicentric configuration. We must transform the ideosphere itself from sharing the same center to one where autonomous individuals engage in authentic thinking in synergy with others.

The ideosphere is a global matrix of meaning and value through interaction with with which people derive their own meanings and values. We interact with this dynamic field of ideation and thereby participate in the generation, movement and transformation of the ecology of ideation itself.

In conclusion, humanity, to this point, has chiefly developed the “monological mind” creating a two-way monologue, not a dialogue. Once engaged in the dialogical process, we will learn to develop a “dialogical mind.” 

The monological mind thinks, and can only think, through the filter of a single paradigm or structure of interpretation. It isn't capable of understanding different viewpoints in their own terms but only in its own terms.

The hallmark of the dialogical mind is its capacity to understand different viewpoints in their own terms and to hold the unknown within its scope of influence.

One of the most important tasks of today’s and tomorrow’s leaders is to engage people in the dialogue process. We must not think for others but think with them for the evolution of the ideosphere.

Could this be one of the reasons Patch was conceived? To bring together a group of thinkers who want to participate in an authentic dialogue leading to the responsible evolution of our planet?

In my next blog we will discuss the creation of a “planetary” culture of responsibility, authenticity, integrity and wholeness.  Thank you for your thoughts, if any, on this subject.

* Parts of this blog are to be credited to Yashuiko Kimura, one of the world's most original thinkers. *