Comments on New Currency Frontiers: Permaculture / Currency as Language

Beautiful post. Katin response is an invitation to...

2009-04-01T08:56:00.000-07:00

Beautiful post. Katin response is an invitation to currency as part of the poetry of existence.

Well said, Alan. A great path into the perspective...

2009-03-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

Well said, Alan. A great path into the perspective we are exploring in this blog.

What springs to mind for me after reading it is that our own perspectives, connections and meaning we personally assign is what brings all these thigns together. I've heard people reference, "the money dance" as a perspective of watching economic flows and worker motivation and participation - an interesting meld of languages and meaning.

Which has me say, from the same mood as laying in the soft spring grass on a warm sunny day watching the clouds form creatures and stories in the sky, that some amazing exploration could be launched from the idea of applying sythesthesia (the cross-mapping of senses) to everything you've mentioned in the post.

What would economic velocity sound like? What is the color of millions and billions of transactions flowing around the world? What is the smell of a ponzi scheme in the fields of stalks and vines of commerce? And what temperature are the economic seasons?

Just an idea for right-braining on the huge ideas of currency, living systems, language and meaning.

This is great Alan. For another language related ...

2009-03-30T06:20:00.000-07:00

This is great Alan. For another language related view on currency folks might want to check out this post:

http://openmoney.ning.com/forum/topics/1180168:Topic:2692

which describes how the evolution of currency can be thought of as parallel to the evolution of writing, but in a different domain. Where writing is an expressive capacity for concepts, currency is an expressive capacity for wealth building, or, even deeper, for flow.

Alan - wonderful. I completely feel what you're sa...

2009-03-29T19:36:00.000-07:00

Alan - wonderful. I completely feel what you're saying - I've also thought of money as similar to a language. It's a system of communication that is mutually understood. It is the form through which transactions flow.
Lietaer says that money is like a central nervous system of an economy. He also says that money was the first information system, affecting the development of writing. In the digitized world it will be like neural networks that provide the medium for "trading" information, like in a brain. Lietaer talked about the noosphere and that the cybersphere is a bridge in the noosphere.