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Simple, explicit and redundant, tic-tac-toe is most often played by very young children (they eventually move on to more sophisticated games such as dots and boxes). This reputation for ease has led to casinos offering gamblers the chance to play tic-tac-toe against trained chickens.

Animation: Fractal Images of Formal Systems,
by Paul St. Denis and Patrick Grim

The fractal image shown above, sections of which are progressively enlarged through

the process of animation, offers an analytic presentation of all possible tic-tac-toe games.

The game of tic-tac-toe is a closed system.




"A closed system resisting the incorporation of new ideas risks [stagnation or, worse,] atrophy. By not adopting or implementing viable ideas, a closed system ceases to properly serve the environment it lives in." Conversely, "...open systems adapt quickly to the environment in which they live by possessing permeable boundaries through which new information and ideas are readily absorbed. By incorporating viable new ideas, an open system ultimately sustains growth and serves its parent environment. Open systems possess a stronger probability for survival [and evolution] due to this adaptability."

----Systems Theory - Open/Closed System Structure







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Responsibility is always much broader than individual responsibility.

Image: © Willy Vallez, Théorie de l'Individu
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"I felt compelled to come into the political field because I found I could not do even social work without touching politics. I feel that political work must be looked upon in terms of social and moral progress."



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"The central importance of entering into worlds other than our own . . . lies in the fact that the experience leads us to understand that our own world is also a cultural construct."




——Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan

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Motivations for contributing to online communities are many.



- Anticipated Reciprocity

- Increased Reputation

- Sense of Efficacy



The above three motivations were outlined by Peter Kollock in "The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace").



- Communion (Sense of Community) - implicit in the above - was also outlined as a significant motivation by Mark Smith in "Voices from the WELL: The Logic of the Virtual Commons").



Wikipedia has a page dedicated to the topic here, in which each of these motivations are briefly examined along with the role they are perceived to have played out in online communities.



Even though wikipedia covers the topic of communication network rather extensively - it even has a page dedicated exclusively to MySpace - very little can be found, to this date, relating to NCN's own history and pioneering efforts in that domain. A Wikipedia query for "New Civilization network" only yield the following result:







Out of the two results above, one [link] is a page on the topic of Earth Immune System which contains a link to an essay dated 04/12/03 by author Andy Lehman on his NCN-hosted blog, Subtle Psychopathy and Schizophrenic Supermen, Gandhi Was a Cultural Oncologist, and the other [link] is a page about the Global Ideas bank , which contains a reference to "the work of several volunteer programmers and technical wizards (especially Flemming Funch of the New Civilization Network)" Other than that, Wikipedia offers no definition or description of what the New Civilization Network itself is about, nor is any link provided to the New Civilization Network's main page or to the NCN poetic manifesto.



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