Jean-François Noubel
Jean-François
Noubel recently visited Auroville. He assisted key working groups and gave
public workshops and presentations on collective intelligence and a new form of
economy.
Auroville Today: You say that in Auroville a great
deal of development happens at the personal level, but at the level of the
collectivity we keep building the old world. What do you mean by this?
J-F Noubel: I mean that many Aurovillians
have worked intensively upon themselves but when they come together they tend
to repeat old patterns of thought and behaviour. This points to ‘invisible
architectures’ – hidden structures that shape our worldviews and our actions.
Language, for example. In early times, language would point to very basic things
like naming an animal or situation. While language evolves, it keeps elements
of the archaic consciousness that no longer fit the modern world. So modern
language still tends to focus upon objects interacting with o...
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