Last Update: Tuesday January 6, 2009

Foundations within foundations

Wisdom from episodes of the show...

1. The Opening and Closing of the show. Here is the broad conceptual orientation for this show and website.

2. Listen to every idea. In good business there is never any room for arrogance. Real business owners listen to everybody and encourage everybody's wisdom. Meet Marty Edelston. With about 80 employees, they publish one of the most widely-read monthly newsletters in the world. He started when he was in his late 40s with several children still at home! He is one of the most successful people we know.

3. What is the path to economic independence? You are on the right path if you are thinking about starting, running and growing your own business. Most businesses begin as family businesses.

4. Hattie's Lightbulb. Hattie stops us somewhere within the episode to ask, "Did you hear that?" She just heard some wisdom and as a result, she could see a brighter future. We usually return to the studio (and it is usually about halfway through an episode of a show, yet it can be part of her concluding remarks); and, Hattie reflects on what she has learned from the guests on the show that week.

Often her thoughts reflect Bruce's learning experiences as well.

What makes us human, what makes us ethical, and what gives us hope, depth and perspective?

There are three form / functions that define an increasingly perfected state within an experience:

The first form that defines our humanity is continuity, and its most basic function, a simple perfection, is to create order.
The second form is symmetry and its function is to create relations.
The third form is dynamics and its perfection, a complex function, is harmony.

Every scientific and religious assertion, both seeking to understand and define the universal, begins with the same first principle and evolves within its own understanding to the second and third.

This is also the basis of the value chain. The more perfect a moment or an experience is, OR the more perfected a thing or system is, the more valuable it becomes. Thus, we have the beginnings of business.

Any assertion that counters life's evolving perfections is not religion (at best, it's a cult); it is also not business (it's exploitation or a bad company); certainly it is not good government; and most often, it is not even good science.

There are scientific endeavors that observe, quantify and qualify that which is fundamentally based on discontinuities or chaos, but these studies require the inherent continuities of mathematics and other universal constants to even grasp the nature of that discontinuity. -BEC

Note: This simple description of the nature of life evolves from work in 1979 when Camber worked with 54 of the worlds leading, living scholars who all addressed the question, "What is life?" based on Erwin Schrödinger's book of the same title. Camber's research was of the foundations -- the hypostases -- that define life, learning, memory, and space-time.