New Website
In time for the new year, I have launched a new site, please go to http://philiphorvath.com to get to the new site!
In part, this was due to a bet having to do with being able to explain what it is that I do. Well, below the most succinct version:
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As a Visionary I work with individuals and organizations to understand future trends, dynamics and how to best position yourself within the new world we are creating together. I help drive out new forwarding long-term visions and together with my clients develop their ideas into shared and exciting concepts and clear executable plans. |
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An entertaining and eye-opening Speaker, I love to provide my audiences with more than a talk. They not just gain new perspectives, but frameworks and practical tools they can immediately apply in their daily lives and work. I speak on innovation, relating, and how to drive evolution, and each talk is customized to my client’s needs. |
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As an Advisor, I support my clients in turning change into transformation. With twenty years of experience, I provide my clients with frameworks and tools from a variety of traditions such as yoga, alchemy, various esoteric systems, philosophy, NLP and transformational psychology. As a result, they do not just deal with their respective situation, but evolve in their humanity. |
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As a Solution Architect I get to live out my German sense of efficiency and effectiveness. I like building systems that work. To do so, I create metaphors and maps with my clients, allowing for shared meaning and language, ensuring everyone is one the same page, progress can be tracked, and the architecture is evolving into a functioning value machine. |
A Multi-Solipsistic Manifesto
I seem to be here right now
No matter which religious, spiritual, or materialistic idea ultimately holds true, the one and only thing I do know as a fact is that I seem to be here right now. With that, I acknowledge, that all my memories of the past and all my projections into the future are in my imagination. “I” seem(s) to be an immediate Point of Perception (PoP).
You seem to be here right now
While I cannot prove to you that either one of us is actually here, I seem to be writing this, and you seem to be reading this. While there is no Turing test for consciousness, nor an effective zombie test, I give you the benefit of doubt, and assume that you, too, are real and an equally valid Point of Perception. I request the same of you.
Experience requires separation
For me to have the experience of writing this and for you to have the experience of reading this, and for any experience to actually be experienced, separation of Points of Perception seems required. While there would logically be an underlying unity, a oneness, of all existence, you and I need to be separate in order for us to have any experience. Within this separation, I realize that if my perception is accurate, there appears to be one universe and one biosphere. As such it would make sense for all of us to collaborate and aim to make each other’s experience as pleasant as possible.
Experience levels
From the level of Points of Perception, we are equals. Anything that appears to perceive would therefore have to be on the same level, of the same value, no matter what kind of bio-robot it appears to manifest in (plant, animal or human of any kind, let alone other possible life forms). It is indeed the diversity on levels below the Point of Perception that makes this life interesting.
Separation can be overcome
On the PoP level, there is “I” and apparent “Other”. In order for there to be experience, this is required. Experience unfolds in dualistic poles. If I remember that ultimately, there is a unity, I can choose to integrate “Other” in my definition of self, embrace the polarity and hold the whole spectrum. In actively doing so, I experience connectedness, love and belonging.
All transactions require agreement
Right now, in this transaction of writing and reading a text, we agree on many things, to begin with, the language and meaning of the symbols and words used to express these ideas. If we did not agree on these things or meaning thereof, we could not have this exchange. At the same time, this agreement is based on probability clusters. We seem to agree on our definition of terms, but even that is to be continuously refined.
An agreeable meaning
All this might seem obvious. If this was a starting point for our actions in this world, though, we would not face many of the atrocities committed every day in the name of noble goals. If we truly accept that we are separate and alone in our Point of Perception, and that we can never even begin to understand someone else’s, our actions would show it. We can strive for empathy and compassion, and as such, we need to start from common ground. I seem to be here right now, I like to feel good, I don’t like to feel bad. Sometimes I am afraid, alone; sometimes I feel confident and connected. I am interested in you because you are different. Through sharing with each other we can enhance our understanding of this world. Each one of us brings something to the table. Each one of us seems to be here to provide their piece to the puzzle. Due to the dualistic principle of experience described above, the universe is full of challenges. Challenges are opportunities for transformation.
How can you and I transform this world together?
…’cause why else would we be here?
It’s about the women and children
Note to self (and to men who care):
We live in a yet another new age. An age where more than ever, it is about the women and children – both outside and inside of yourself.
Love requires “Other”
Whatever lifestyle you chose to live, and however you chose to practice this, a life full of meaningful experiences, a life lived in love, entails putting yourself in service of that which is “other”. Love requires otherness, it requires overcoming of separation, it demands the integration of the paradox of “I” and “Other”, seemingly separate yet one at the same time. To live a life of love means to love that which is other, the unknown, inside and outside of yourself.
Time to catch up
Women are currently ahead in evolution. During the last century, they fought their way into male systems, into schools, politics, even the military. Through that, they have learned to activate their inner male, integrate left and right brain functioning in new ways (some more, some less successful). They have stepped up in the evolutionary development of mankind from barbarism to the great matriarchies, and from currently faltering patriarchies to this new age in which male and female inside and outside ourselves can thrive in harmony.
From Protohuman to Prototype
It is also an age in which we need to honor the child within us again, the child, who wants to explore and create wonder in this world. If we allow ourselves to discover awe anew in every moment, if we trust in our ability to create marvelous wonders again and again, we also create a new empathy and care for the children of the world who represent the future of mankind.
Remember to continuously discover both male and female inside of you, learn to love yourself for all that you are and can be, the known and unknown. And remember to live in beginner’s mind no matter what age, and that you affect generations to come in all you do.
Love and belonging…
We all seem to long to belong.
In order to love, there has to be separation and the willingness to connect anew in every moment.
Love demands resistance.
To expect safety in our experience of belonging, in love, seems a sure path to enmeshment and co-dependence.
To connect anew again and again allows for our own transformation and that of “other”, and an ever new encounter with an open mind.
Through resistance we grow, and in the dance of love we continue to expand our experience of self.
In oneness there appears no experience of self and no need for love.
Launching INos
Announcing the launch of INos
- Advocates of Vital Innovation
INos (pronounced IN-oh-es) was developed in response to the needs of ‘Innovatives‘: of creative producers, corporate catalysts, and lifestyle leaders who evision new ways of living for their community and require new perspectives and support in making them a reality.
The goal is to provide anyone willing to step up as an innovative leader in their community with perspectives, purpose, practices, and techniques.
The immediate focus is to share and spread the concepts behind Vital Innovation as an alternative to current production and consumption culture and to build out our community of Innovatives.
INos brings life to new perspectives. We collaborate with you and your community using a variety of approaches and techniques to create something truly new.
More information on INos and the concept of Vital Innovation can be found at http://INos.biz
What is a transformational business?
There is a lot of talk about change and transformation, but transformation is rarely defined. To me, transformation means willfully and creatively engaging with change. Change is inevitable. Nothing in this reality stays the same from moment to moment.
In a world of real-time global communications, change is accelerated through the memes, mediums and messaging available today… Providing evermore accelerated paths for transformation.
Shifting into new models
Business within this era has to – by default – be drastically different than before. While economics was beginning with the premise of scarcity, allowing for only two major models to evolve, we have come to a more advanced understanding where scarcity is limited to scarce systems, and where we can look to ecology and integrated systems to provide sustainable solutions – all within a global context.
Vital Innovation Talk at Sony
Had the pleasure of speaking at Sony the other day. The wonderful folks from Brightidea.com invited me to give a talk at their Birds of a Feather peer-to-peer event for Innovation leaders. Great group of people all around.
Here a link to the slides
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Twitter- Great advice on using your time rather than spending it - http://t.co/NsuxFB99
- Get some sleep. Your brain needs to defragment http://t.co/FT6j6yes
- Like #TED talks? Here's a list: http://t.co/hppq21xw
- It's not hard to be happy http://t.co/FdFLztX7
- Disney and Vaginas. Who would have thought? http://t.co/SZrFVE9n
- I'm going to "Meet the Angels" Rooftop Lounge Mixer presented by TCA. http://t.co/N0DQrHKB via @goplanana.
- RT @museumofrobots: Museum of Robots Daily is out! http://t.co/612LqpIq ▸ robots, robots, robots!
- Finding time to innovate http://t.co/jhZNXDSr
- Slice of brain anyone? Google maps for brains... delicious brains... http://t.co/MIVFcffq
- Scanning in 3D http://t.co/3ujHHDEO
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- Remaining human: A Buddhist perspective on Occupy Wall Street
- The Fringes Disagree But Science And Religion Do Mix
- Five Tips to Break Through Your Filter(s)
- Reminders from the world
- Tattoo 2.0
- Violin made with a 3D printer
- Realtime Face Substitution softwear
- On The Creating And Sharing Of Awe
- Unautomate Your Money
- 5 Ways To Turn Fear Into Fuel
- Become a God of Learning Your Trade
- A Young Artist's Guide to Playing for Keeps, Pt. 15
- Twelfth century orgasmic brain heat
- Projecting meaning
- AGI and the Emerging Peer-to-Peer Economy: Ben Goertzel Interviews AI Researcher Mohamad Tarifi
- The Future of Brain Workouts
- Breaking Free From Consumerist Chains
- Data is the new Oil: must-read PDF by the World Economic Forum
- TED: JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out - JR (2011)