Timothy Wilken, MD will be speaking at the UnMONEY Convergence which is scheduled in Seattle, Washingon on April 14, 15 & 16. The conference is open to the public. In two separate presentations, Dr. Wilken will be discussing both GIFTegrity and ORTEGRITY. The focus of the conference is described as follows:

“On the face of it, money is a tool for measuring value.  In todays world
it is ubiquitous, throughout the entire world, in influencing the way
people relate and work with one another. 

“But money seems to be failing
us on a number of fronts.  The things most vital for the sustenance of
life aren’t measured by money because they simply have no quantifiable
value, and so they get left out.  Discounted.  How do we turn this
around?  And furthermore, how do we optimize our “value measuring”systems to be accountable to the real wealth that is created and to the
well being of all instead of making real wealth and real relationships
beholden to the measure. 

“The conference will be looking at this basic
question as well as exploring the obscure world of monetary alchemy:
complementary currencies, micro credit, slow money and new ways of
accounting and book keeping that maximize the amount of wealth
creation, flow, collaboration and innovation to occur within and
without of business and non-profit organizations while accounting for
the environment and society at the same time. 

“There will be special
talks on synergy between the technological space around mutual credit
creation, value measurement and wealth acknowledgment.  If you are a
veteran or simply interested in learning more or getting involved, this
conference is for you.” You can purchase tickets here. (03/29/08)
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Timothy Wilken, MD writes: In March of 1983, I traveled from my home on the west coast of
Northern California to meet with Dr. Coulter. From Chapel Hill, we
traveled by car a small private retreat he had built on a lake in
nearby Virginia. It was a beautiful and very quiet place ideal for
thinking and corroboration. He called it Synergia.

The purpose of our meeting was two-fold, first to share our
research findings about human relationships, behavior, and thinking,
and then to design or at least establish criteria for designing a
“conflict-free” organizational system for humankind. As synergic
scientists, we both believed an ideal system would be based on win-win
relationships.

As our discussions began, I felt sure the system would be a form
of capitalism. I had studied theoretical capitalism for a number of
years. One captitalistic theorist, Andrew J. Galambos
had proposed an advanced capitalistic system which was non-coercive.
Its underlying premise was to eliminate and prohibit loss. Galambos’
proposed system did not insure win-win relationships, but it promised
to eliminate losing relationships.

Galambos’ system was a type of
SuperNeutrality. It allowed win-draw, draw-win, draw-draw, or win-win.
It was committed to the protection of property. But, the definition of
property was expanded to include your life, freedom, ideas, and
actions. Galambos’Capitalism was a much more powerful form than exists
today.

With its absolute prohibition of injuring others, it can be
thought of as Moral Capitalism. Its tenets included the absolute
protection of property, individual freedom, and total responsibility.
Galambos’s “SuperNeutrality — Moral Capitalism” retained many
of Neutrality — Capitalism’s value systems.

In 1983, I shared most of
these values. However, even then I knew there was an even better way
possible. I felt Galambos’s system could be modified into the synergic
system we were seeking. I envisioned the ideal system would be a form
of Synergic Capitalism — win-win capitalism.

As a synergy scientist,
Coulter was sensitive to the wholistic
view — a view he associated with theoretical socialism. He felt the
needs of the species were more important than the needs of the
individual. As the Star Trek character Spock said, “The needs of the
many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.” Unaware of Galambos’s
work, Coulter assumed all capitalistic
structures had to be based on win/lose dynamics, and therefore he was
opposed to them on principle. Coulter envisioned a form of Synergic
Socialism — win-win socialism.

Which would it be? Synergic Capitalism or Synergic Socialism?  (03/29/08)
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Timothy Wilken, MD
writes: Tensegrity is the pattern that results when push and pull have
a win-win relationship with each other.

The pull is continuous and the
push is discontinuous. The continuous pull is balanced by the
discontinuous push producing an integrity of tension and compression.
This creates a powerful self-stabilizing system.

The term tensegrity
comes from synergic science.  It was coined by Buckminster Fuller.

The gifting tensegrity
is a newly invented mechanism for the exchange of human help. Let us
begin by describing how a GIFTegrity might be structured and how it
could work.

Every member of a synergic help tensegrity would
participate in two roles. That as a giftor and that as a giftee.

The
continuous pull of the giftees’ needs are balanced by the discontinuous
push from the giftors’ offers of help. Again we see as an
INTERdependent life form, there will be times when we will help others
and times when others will help us.

The GIFTegrity works on trust. I
give help to those in need and trust that when I am in need there will
be those who will give me help. (03/29/08)
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