Redressing The Crises of Ignorance @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

We will explore four proposed crises of ignorance each of which adds to our understanding of how and why we ought to foster our comprehensivity, our inclination to comprehend our worlds broadly and deeply.

The event will deeply explore Buckminster Fuller's essay "The Wellspring of Reality": http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/intro/well.html

In addition to reading Bucky's essay closely, it would help participants to familiarize themselves with the ideas we will explore by reading my essay on the subject: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2021/06/redressing-the-crises-of-ignorance/

Two other harder to find Bucky essays will also be discussed:
● Education Automation (this long essay / short book has been published in book form multiple times so used copies are available; you can also find it in the 2010 anthology "Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity")
● "Mistake Mystique" (this short essay is also included in the 2010 anthology)

Finally, we will also reference the exquisite short 2012 book by Stuart Firestein: "Ignorance: How It Drives Science".

Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

An introductory series of videos from past events can be watched at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2chIX3Hk5gHXf9bzxcjVxNA

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬ https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgxwR29_WY
Dec 16: Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIHsVIzGlw
Jan 13: The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5dv4daAxL4
Feb 17: Mistake Mystique in Learning and in Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxp5owgjiI

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