Human machine Symbiosis

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A Holonic Model of Cross-Cultural Knowledge
Transfer For presentation at the Open
Universities National Models for a European
Model International Conference By the Italian
Chamber of Deputies Rome 6-7 October 2004
Karamjit S Gill Professor Emeritus,
University of Brighton Email k.s.gill_at_bton.ac.uk
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Learning in cross-cultural settings
EU-India Cross-Cultural Innovation
Network Foundation of a Learning Community
Lesson and Observations Challenge of the
Digital Society The Question of
Purpose Knowing the Learner Rethinking the
Knowledge Architecture Holonic Architecture of
Interaction Intellectual activity or intellectual
capital Digital Diploma Mills- a slippery
Slope! Concluding Remarks Machines with
Purpose Institute without walls (causal
science)
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Learning in cross-cultural settings
How do cultures innovate? How we do understand
other cultures? India a continent of immense
diversity and complexity ? Many regions,
cultures Religions, faiths, and languages ? Rich
wealth of knowledge wisdom but poor in
GDPs ? Bounded by yet separated by the caste
system ? Silicon valley of the EAST Yet little
relevance to the village
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LearningReformulation
How to cultivate (EU-India) cross-cultural
understanding? Concepts Fostering proactive
innovation Education transmission of
cultures Learning finding knowledge gaps
Innovation ways of bridging gaps Valrorisation
commonality difference Networking models of
collaboration Learning knowledge transfer
sharing? Design human-machine collaboration
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EU-Japan
EU-China
EU-Latin America
brighton
aachen
bologna
lyngby
bologna
wales
Shared spaces know cultural
delhi
brighton
delhi
nistads
punjab
gujerat
delhi
EU-INDIA Cross Cultural Innovation
Network diversities regional, cultural,
economic, traditions
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complex web of cross-cultural and cross-regional
linkages
Regions Cultures EU five diverse regions D,
DK, I, England, Wales AachenUniv-industry-communi
ty partners (Comp.Sc) Lyngby home of Diary
industry cooperatives(Soc.sc) Bologna creative
innovation enterprise (Worktech) Brighton The
City of social enterprise (IT) Wales New
cultural industries (Art Design) Indian
partners 4 regions traditions Panjab (Agr.
Univ) Home of Green Revolution Gujarat (Bus.
Sch) Home of family enterprise family
cooperatives Delhi (Sc Tech) The centre of
science society
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Observations on Collaboration
Network Approach ? Multiplier effect ? Risk
taking Principle of Change Process Process of
Monitoring ? Growth involvement Principle of
visibility ? Building bridges with civic
society Distributed involvement ? Individual
institutional Distributed equality ? From
separation to coordination Principle of
movement From looseness to connectedness
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Knowledge Gaps Learning Gaps

• ? Tacit and the objective
• Knowledge resource OR commodity
• Tension propositional knowledge
• (university) and the tacit (society)
• ? Tension technology- local and global
• ? Diversity Regional cultural
• ? Communication multi-level gaps
• ? Innovation and entrepreneurship!
• ? Collaborative Cooperative models
• Learning and earning organisations
• Interfacing and Coordination

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Cross-cultural Breakdown
breakdown
Tacit
Objective
mediation
T A C I T
transfer
Objective
Tacit
breakdown
Scientific technical
Experiential Personal
breakdown
Scientific/explicit cultural models
Experiential/tacit cultural model
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The Dance of the Learner in Digital Space
How can we know the Learner from the Learning
Context? How can we know the dancer from the
dance? How we can know the musician from the
music being played by the musician? How to
deal with interplay between the actuality (as it
is) and the reality (as should be)?
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Cross-holon-communication
Trinity holon
Panchtantra holon
(dialogue)
Linear holon
(interaction)
Dragon holon
(interlocution)
Samurai holon
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Rethinking the Knowledge Architecture
Models of cultural holons Holon units and the
whole uni-verse Linear Holon one-one
interaction Trinity Holon dialogical
interaction Panchtantara Holon interlocution Sam
urai Holon interlocution Dragon' Holon
interlocution
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Actuality and the Symbiotic
InterfaceInterfacing problem cultural
holonsContext Reality Actuality Symbiotic
conception between-nessseeing hearing real
self (neomatic)actual self (neotic), hearing
musicShared space the culture of the
virtualMachine with purpose one best way
convergenceValorisation self other third
realityholonic communication cross-cultural
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Real Self and Actual Self
I (real)
Seeing information
Situation
Me (actual)
Appearing language
Uchiyama (2003)
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Reconfiguring the Tacit
Present experiencing, Past experienced,
Future imagination
Actuality
P
Personal
Reality/Actuality
Reality
E
O
Experiential
Objective
(Present/Past experienced)
(Presentexperienced)
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Building interfaces

• The Actuality, Reality and in-Betweeness
• Continuum or in-betweeness of
• user spaces of interaction
• Conceptual gap (between-ness) between
• reality (experienced) and
• actuality (experiencing)
• Way forward
• Symbiosis Interdependence
• between reality and actuality

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Conceptualising User Interface
a) Interface between machine (reality) and
machine (reality) b) Interface between human
(actuality) and machine (reality) c) Interface
between human actuality) and human
(actuality) in-between interaction between
observer and the situation a) through
information b) through language
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The Symbiotic Space
other
Self
Objective
Tacit
symbiosis
Tacit
Objective
Interface
dialogue
Accommodation
Interlocution
Valorisation
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Space of the artificial
third Reality C

Space of the
harmony
plurality
artificial
coherence
empathy
valorisation
Self
Other
GAP
Space A interaction
Space B
Interaction
interaction
difference choice cohesion
Reality A
Reality B
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Democratic Coherence
agreement
coherence
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coherence
1
3
synchronisation
synchronisation
coherence
2
4
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holonic interface
communication
A1
cross cultural
B1
symbiosis
A2
A3
B3
Holon B
B2
Holon A
belonging
A4
A5
B5
B6
A6
B4
communication
D1
belonging
C1
Holon C
C2
C3
D2
D3
symbiosis
Holon D
D6
cross cultural
C4
C5
C6
D4
D5
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Interlocution Model
Actuality Space
Human centred systems
Culture of the artificial
Actuality Reality
Local global
Natural artificial
Symbiosis
In-betweeness
Exemplar
Essential performance
Seeing as
Valorisation
Cross-appropriation
Articulation
Reconfiguration
Cross-Cultural Interlocution
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A Slippery Slope Or Nirvana?
? The rise of knowledge-based industries ? Univers
ity as the site of capital accumulation ? Intellec
tual activity into intellectual
capital ? Commoditization of the research
function ? Education Commodity- courseware
products ? University into production
industry ? Homogenisation common
denominator Myths ? high-tech agenda will be
customer driven" ? pedagogical usefulness of
e-learning ubiquitous technozealots ? computers
as the panacea for everything Virtual
University Project ? Seduction anytime, anywhere
learning ? "just-in-time" information processing
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The Tacit -Objective Dynamic
O B J E C T I V E
Void
Void
Social
max tacit
T A C I T
0
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Human-centred Paradigm

Symbiosis interdependence Purpose valorisation
of diversity What is possible ? What is
desirable ? What is sustainable ?
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Machines with purpose
Furture Tayloristic vision- automation
Future reduction of
technology
O
P present
F future
O
T
calculation
F1
F2
T
O
Future emancipatory
technology
Future no change
P
judgement
O
T
O
T
O objective
T tacit
F3
F4
(Rosenbrock vision)