[FRIAM] [632 Advisory] wordcrafting

[Robert Cordingley]

Dave,
The University of Texas at Austin's Liberal Arts school has "Plan 2" 
which provides a multidisciplinary education from art, through 
philosophy and science, etc..  If your BOK goes further you could call 
it "Plan 3"? 

Other more serious ideas: polytechnology, pantechnology, gnostology, 
holistology and omnology.  There is a piece on Omnology by Bloom at 
http://www.entelechyjournal.com/howardbloom.html perhaps it will 
resonate (and I thought I'd come up with the word.)

I suggest an '-ology' because '-ologists' are easy to see.  There's 
little sign of anyone using 'holistology', my second choice.  
"Omnologist"seems to come off the tongue fairly easily, though it lends 
itself to: "What do you do for a living?"  "Om... I'm an Omnologist!"

Hope this helps.
Robert Cordingley

>> [Original Message]
>> From: Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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>> Date: 11/8/2007 9:56:00 AM
>> Subject: [632 Advisory] wordcrafting
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>> Gentlefolk,
>>
>> I need a word.
>>
>>
>> What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
>> incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
>> art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
>> imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
>> entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
>> enlightenment?
>>
>> And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
>> discipline / degree / body of knowledge?
>>
>> Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
>> ugly as a word.
>>
>> Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
>> science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
>> used by Charles Darwin in his travels).
>>
>> Ideas??
>>
>> dave west
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