Saturday, July 19, 2008

What Is Collective Intelligence?

According to Pierre Levy et al., collective intelligence is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills.

The basis and goal of collective intelligence is the mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the cult of fetishized or hypostatized communities.

How should we then implement collective intelligence into our daily life in our institution? How have you been, Friends? How does your PAP run? Greetings from Yogyakarta.

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze where collective collections of books are visited by book lovers. It is located in Santa Croce, Florence, Italy. Picture was taken one day in December 2006.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

To Learn From Musashi Miyamoto












Mountain Batok, Bromo, and Semeru Before Sunrise. Picture was taken on July 11, 2008, from Mountain Penanjakan, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia.













Mountain Batok and Bromo after Sunrise. Picture was also taken on July 11, 2008.

Musashi Miyamoto (the Lone Samurai, as written by Eiji Yoshikawa) was an autodidactic person. He taught himself to learn many kinds of knowledge. One of the knowledge Musashi learned is the thoughts of Sun Tzu as follow:

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy
and know yourself, your victory will not
stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know
Earth, you may make your victory complete.


Musashi was very modest, honest, and a tough personality to train himself. He realized the importance of timing and rhythm in every aspects of life. The most interesting point of Musashi is that he knew how to read time. He knew when to stop fighting and transformed himself to be an artist, and ended himself to be a philosopher in the end of his life. It seems he needed great intuition to decide when to stop something and when to start something else. His great intuition made him to be a real life fighter. He drove time, not the time drove his life.

Sometimes I think how great he was, while I am constantly to be a just mediocre person. Greetings from Yogyakarta to live the blog.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Faculty of Dentistry, UGM













Building of the Faculty of Dentistry, UGM.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
(Leonardo da Vinci). Greetings!

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Synchronicity #2












The pictures I took in Bangka Island: Just before sunrise in Tong A Chin (Now Batavia Bangka) Beach, Sungailiat.


I was on my way back to Yogyakarta from Bangka Island, in the East part of Sumatra Island, when thinking about my first post on synchronicity (Synchronicity #1).

It does not take the mystery of a new millenium to convince us that something is shifting in human conciousness. For those with a perceptive eye, the signs are everywhere. To stay alert and to make the time necessary to explore a moment occuring in our life, as well as to mean the connection among moments, could be the key in order to shift our lives in a new, more inspiring direction in this millenium.













It was so silent in a dawn time at Tong A Chin (Batavia Bangka) Beach, on July 5, 2008.












Traditional pancake stall of Bangka Island: Martabak Manis. Ayung is a famous martabak manis stall in Sungailiat.















Sixty year old building used as the first telegraph office in Bangka Island, located in Sungailiat. Now it is used for local television office: Bangka Tivi.

Talking about shifting in human conciousness, Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung was the first modern thinker to define the mysterious phenomenon. He called it synchronicity, the perception of meaningful coincidence. Jung, as written by F.D. Feat (Synchronicity: A Bridge Between Matter and Mind), maintained that synchronicity was an acausal principle in the universe, a law that operated to move human beings toward greater growth in conciousness.

Let us seize the moment. Groetjes from Yogyakarta!

Friday, July 4, 2008

Condolence to Sanchai and family

It is with great sorrow and sadness that we feel with the passing away of Sanchai's beloved father on Saturday, 28 June, 2008. We offer our condolences and prayers to our friend Sanchai and family on this sad occasion and wish him well through this time of bereavement.

Comments are opened for anyone to express and extend their condolences to Sanchai.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Synchronicity (#1)

Charlie`s brother at Check Point Charlie, Berlin.

Most of us have learned to pursue life with our egos alone, waking up in the morning and thinking we must take complete control of the day. Even sometimes we drive life with mathemathical calculation and drive it like we are doing lab works: hypothesis-designed experiment-proven hypothesis.

In reality, life is full of unplanned moments. It is full of significant coincidences. Coincidences can be dramatic, but they can also be very subtle and fleeting, and thus easily dismissed. Then our personal challenge is to overcome the cultural conditioning that leads us to reduce life to the ordinary, commonplace, and nonmysterious.

I remembered two months ago on the third day of May, I was in an aeroplane which flied me to Schiphol. I did not even meet most of you. But now, you have been a part of my life, Friends. Do you still believe that to answer questions on life is to mean moment and to understand connection of moments? Greeting from UGM.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Almost Two Months: The Tao of Jung

Zoologischer Garten Station, on Pantecost Day.

The life journey through many different dimensions, meeting people, as well as facing different life situations have been influencing my life view, life paradigm. One day I hated person, for example, but later he or she has been being the person I respect more and more. One of them is Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). He was not only a psychiatrist, a psychologist, but also a meta-physicist with wide area of interest.

Jung liked to stay alone and sat on a big stone. He usually asked himself: “Is it me who is sitting on a stone, or am I a stone on which I sit on?” This question is an analogical one by the one from Chuang-Tse, a famous Taoist, after he woke up from his dreams: “Did I dream to become butterfly or am I butterfly who dreamed to become Chuang-Tse?”

Time goes so fast, although sometimes we feel it goes very slowly. Almost two months ago when we met each other in Osnabrueck on May 5, 2008. How have you been, Friends? Do you believe that life is a path that you beat while you walk? All the best!