Evolution

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In the context of OrganicDesign, Evolution refers to the change of behaviour that an entity (system in the Ontology) undergoes over time in response to changes in its environment. Examples of such changes are changes in what's required of it, in supply of it's resources or in demand of its services.

This change is based on trial and error, which in turn requires the ability to assess its performance in terms of its responses to requirements made of it and of its usefulness to the whole network (in the same way as a cell could be assessed in terms of its usefulness to the organism as a whole - see Spontaneous Evolution for more detail on the cellular aspect).

In a holistic society, the usefulness of the individuals in terms of the well-being of the organism as a whole is an important parameter because their energy and resource for growth and even to exist is allocated by organism as a whole. But also in a properly functioning organism the well-being of all cells is assured, because this creates maximum vitality for the organism.

The bottom line

Organisations (and organisms) evolve in response to changes in their environment such changes in supply or demand of resources and materials and changes knowledge, but an important factor determining the nature of change that takes place in an organisation depends on how it assesses the benefit of options available to it in terms of changes to its behaviours it could choose to accept or reject.

This "measuring stick" that determines what's beneficial and what isn't, and how beneficial or damaging something is often gets referred to as "the bottom line". The most common bottom-line we see in our civilisation today is the economic bottom line which means that most decision-making processes are benefiting the planet only indirectly if at all. The OrganicDesign system is instead based on the bottom line of Unification.

Unification:

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Unification is one of the values of OrganicDesign (the Platform specification includes a process of alignment with it). It is the foundation direction of all Platforms (trust groups that operate according to a system that is aligned with the OrganicDesign charter). It is the fundamental "default project" that essentially sums up the process of alignment itself, and could be thought of as "alignment with alignment".

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See also

• Spontaneous Evolution - The book by Bruce Lipton
• Unification
• Direction