this is an octopus octopuses
people say have a deep message for us in
the power of group intelligence and the
way we govern ourselves octopuses are
one of the smartest animals on the
planet if I take a pill bottle and put a
piece of fish in it and put a childproof
cap on it and give it to an octopus the
octopus will figure out how to open it
faster than a chimpanzee octopuses have
a sense of humor if you put them in a
laboratory
they better be careful because they’re
very good at getting out of their tanks
and playing practical jokes on
scientists and humans and octopuses are
the only two animals the two species
that when they’re angry with each other
have fights by throwing rocks but the
big question is how do octopuses think
now I know there’s a lot of students in
the audience since and students like
quizzes I know so let’s have a quiz a
one question quiz and the question is
how many brains does an octopus have 3 8
5 an octopus has nine brains each arm as
a brain and then there’s a central brain
the ninth brain each arm is an
individual personality
there’s adventuress arms and shy arms
and emotional arms and sexy arms and so
on and there’s a ninth brain and the
interesting thing about that ninth
central brain is that it’s not really a
command and control center the way our
brain is it’s more like a facilitator so
it might look around and say hey there’s
a crab over there and say to the arms we
need some food and then the arms take
over and start coordinate maybe they use
the I information from the main brain
but they coordinate and go grab that too
his crab this is very much unlike human
beings when we get together there’s no
built-in ordinator we have to contribute
to it to build the ninth brain function
usually we just end up jockeying for
power and so you end up with one brain
in the ninth brain position and there’s
like no improvement in group
intelligence so we have to be trained in
order to have the ninth brain function
it’s almost like octopuses are ahead of
us in evolution there are a number of
insights that we can gain from this that
you can use in today as students and you
can use for the rest of your life your
career your family your clubs your
politics let’s see where these concepts
have been developed
it seems that India and the Netherlands
are in advance of everybody else in
adapting octopus technology to the
improvement of democracy father Edwin
John and dr. Gerard Endon burg worked
independently of each other for a long
time and only recently discovered that
they were both have discovered the same
pattern which i think is very exciting
so let’s look a little bit at what they
have to say democracy is ruled by the
demos and the demos is like the general
mass of people with no particular
connection and you say for example the
the Senate at the University of Maryland
I understand is a pretty good democratic
institution it does an okay job of
providing the ninth brain function of
you know creating group intelligence but
it could be improved a lot for instance
a self-respecting octopus would never
try to get 200 arms to think together
so secrecy which is gerard Endon Berg’s
term means ruled by the socios which
means people who have kind of a social
connection the associates in Spanish I
understand means partner so it’s like so
CRC is sort of a subset of democracy
that’s designed for organisations both
men say that the basic political unit
should be a small a relatively small
group of people where we all can see
each other nobody needs a microphone
every voice matters and that you should
be taking these basic units and building
them up representatives go to the next
higher level circle as Gerard calls it
or Parliament as Edmund calls it again
it’s fairly small when and you build up
through society that way Gerard’s work
has been mostly focused on organizations
and companies and there’s companies and
organizations in the thousands around
the world that are using so SIOC recei
edwin has been focusing more on what he
calls neighbourhood Parliament’s
organizing people who are living
together living near each other and in
India there are more than 200,000
neighbourhood Parliament and a
children’s Parliament system that
corresponds with that so how can we
apply the insights of Edwin and Gerard
to your life as students and life long
as you will pursue your career and in
your families and in your politics and
so forth let’s start asking the question
what happens when there’s no ninth brain
let’s say that you’re in class and the
professor says ok it’s time for a group
project and you get assigned to be with
a group of five people does any of these
sound familiar but what happens
you if you’ve not been trained in ninth
brain technology you may be unable to
start on time you may not be able to get
everybody to the first meeting of this
budget group and if you don’t know to
consent to a facilitator then the ideas
that you have may not be all that well
disk discussed there may be conflict
between team members and that you it’s
hard to control the dominating
personalities will come in and say this
is the way it’s supposed to be and the
shy personalities that have a lot to say
don’t say anything and if people
actually do do their tasks and start to
carry them out well actually that’s
unlikely if you don’t know to consent to
an administrator who follows up with
everybody and making sure that they’re
so often I think it ends with maybe
three of you if you’re lucky spending an
all-nighter trying to pull this project
together because you care about your
grades cursing the other two that aren’t
there and that’s how it tends to go if
you haven’t had good training which a
lot of us haven’t add the octopus this
message is support each other
govern together you’re going to be
working with people in groups the rest
of your life and a lot of your success
in your career is when to depend upon
how well you are able to function in a
team employers prioritize looking for
people who have a proven record of being
able to function in a group let’s look
at a different scenario here we have a
group of students they’re meeting they
might be in a club at University Club
they might be doing a project of some
sort like we just talked about they
might be people in a dorm maybe one
section of a dorm but they’re meeting
together and they know what they’re
doing
they know about ninth grade technology
so they’re making decisions very
effectively very fast
how are they doing it but they’re using
something called consent and that’s not
consensus and it’s not majority vote
quite different if you’re making a
consent decision and one of the brains
here says oh I have a great idea it’s
this and this and nobody sees a risk in
it that you can’t take the decisions
Dunnell good enough for now safe enough
to try and centas acceptance it’s not
agreement so what does the facilitator
do facilitator make sure that the
conversation flows that everybody gets
their input one of the techniques you
might want to try is to do what’s called
around where you go for each person and
hear what their opinion is about a
topics that everybody’s heard their
equivalent which really helps the
self-organizing of thoughts and
everything is fair and there’s no
crosstalk allowed the administrator is
really necessary because if you have
group intelligent intelligence you need
a group memory and oh you need note and
you need to organize you also need
somebody who carries out the decisions
and the action items or make sure
they’re carried out after the meeting is
over that person might be a club
director it could be an RA and the dorm
mentioned before in the project it could
be the administrator but what’s most
important is that everybody needs to
contribute to this ninth frame we don’t
have one there we’re not octopuses and
we have to contribute to it so everybody
might have some tasks to be that
representative to another group on
campus or handling a project and so
forth the feeling of intimacy and the
feeling that I’m individual but part of
something greater is something that
occurs relatively infrequently to us
because we don’t know how to order
in a connected way if you’re in an
octopus like let’s say I’m one arm of an
octopus and I look at you and you’re
another arm I might say wow we’re
sharing the same blood we’re sharing the
same food we’re both in the same skinned
I can’t escape from you and you for me
we have to get along but humans don’t
have this constriction so you really
have to know the discipline in order to
achieve the kind of energy you get out
of a meeting that’s run by consent and
the flow that comes out of it I want to
give some examples of how groups around
the world are using ninth brain
technology group intelligence to have
fun and do some really interesting
things this is a playground in India the
children know about ninth brain
technology they know how to use incent
to elect each other they all have roles
in their neighborhood because they’re
there are many heartwarming stories
about the accomplishments students have
made in India they really have an effect
on their society getting bridges built
getting laws about when children have to
leave school you know the girls leaving
school early for getting married they’ve
managed to stop that all kinds of
amazing things at the School of Media
culture and design in Woodbury
University in California the professors
decided they were tired of feeling
overwhelmed all the time it wasn’t any
fun
so by consent they forbid themselves to
take work home at night it prioritized
their work they worked with priorities
and they found that they were much
fresher each day they were thinking a
lot better and the spool kept thorin and
growing
the lesson is that there may be things
in your life that just seem overwhelming
like you have no control over them but
it together you can solve those kinds of
problems and together we can solve some
of society’s problems that seem so
intractable here is Eindhoven University
in the Netherlands the graduate students
the doctorate students and the masters
students get together under the
sponsorship of their word ROM he started
it to support each other and their
thesis work that’s normally pretty
lonely work they get together and they
support each other and then in the end
they use Scioscia pratik election
methodology to elect their grades better
than the students say these are your
grades and you’d think like oh my
goodness the students are talking about
great but actually people who experience
it are very enthusiastic about it they
say that it’s a very fair process and
the learning is very deep the process of
the people in this room are the leaders
you ha are amazingly talented you’re the
change makers and society desperately
needs you to improve the governance
technology for yourselves in our
institution let’s work together to build
a global culture that looks at decision
making is a time for artistry not a time
to have a fight I encourage you to try
out ix brain technology while you’re a
student so that when you get into your
career
they’ll be much better prepared to
transform society check it out
I’m John buck I brought a theocracy from
the Netherlands back in the late 90s I
would love to know how you’re doing
this is the way you can contact me
please stay in touch and thank you [Applause]
people say have a deep message for us in
the power of group intelligence and the
way we govern ourselves octopuses are
one of the smartest animals on the
planet if I take a pill bottle and put a
piece of fish in it and put a childproof
cap on it and give it to an octopus the
octopus will figure out how to open it
faster than a chimpanzee octopuses have
a sense of humor if you put them in a
laboratory
they better be careful because they’re
very good at getting out of their tanks
and playing practical jokes on
scientists and humans and octopuses are
the only two animals the two species
that when they’re angry with each other
have fights by throwing rocks but the
big question is how do octopuses think
now I know there’s a lot of students in
the audience since and students like
quizzes I know so let’s have a quiz a
one question quiz and the question is
how many brains does an octopus have 3 8
5 an octopus has nine brains each arm as
a brain and then there’s a central brain
the ninth brain each arm is an
individual personality
there’s adventuress arms and shy arms
and emotional arms and sexy arms and so
on and there’s a ninth brain and the
interesting thing about that ninth
central brain is that it’s not really a
command and control center the way our
brain is it’s more like a facilitator so
it might look around and say hey there’s
a crab over there and say to the arms we
need some food and then the arms take
over and start coordinate maybe they use
the I information from the main brain
but they coordinate and go grab that too
his crab this is very much unlike human
beings when we get together there’s no
built-in ordinator we have to contribute
to it to build the ninth brain function
usually we just end up jockeying for
power and so you end up with one brain
in the ninth brain position and there’s
like no improvement in group
intelligence so we have to be trained in
order to have the ninth brain function
it’s almost like octopuses are ahead of
us in evolution there are a number of
insights that we can gain from this that
you can use in today as students and you
can use for the rest of your life your
career your family your clubs your
politics let’s see where these concepts
have been developed
it seems that India and the Netherlands
are in advance of everybody else in
adapting octopus technology to the
improvement of democracy father Edwin
John and dr. Gerard Endon burg worked
independently of each other for a long
time and only recently discovered that
they were both have discovered the same
pattern which i think is very exciting
so let’s look a little bit at what they
have to say democracy is ruled by the
demos and the demos is like the general
mass of people with no particular
connection and you say for example the
the Senate at the University of Maryland
I understand is a pretty good democratic
institution it does an okay job of
providing the ninth brain function of
you know creating group intelligence but
it could be improved a lot for instance
a self-respecting octopus would never
try to get 200 arms to think together
so secrecy which is gerard Endon Berg’s
term means ruled by the socios which
means people who have kind of a social
connection the associates in Spanish I
understand means partner so it’s like so
CRC is sort of a subset of democracy
that’s designed for organisations both
men say that the basic political unit
should be a small a relatively small
group of people where we all can see
each other nobody needs a microphone
every voice matters and that you should
be taking these basic units and building
them up representatives go to the next
higher level circle as Gerard calls it
or Parliament as Edmund calls it again
it’s fairly small when and you build up
through society that way Gerard’s work
has been mostly focused on organizations
and companies and there’s companies and
organizations in the thousands around
the world that are using so SIOC recei
edwin has been focusing more on what he
calls neighbourhood Parliament’s
organizing people who are living
together living near each other and in
India there are more than 200,000
neighbourhood Parliament and a
children’s Parliament system that
corresponds with that so how can we
apply the insights of Edwin and Gerard
to your life as students and life long
as you will pursue your career and in
your families and in your politics and
so forth let’s start asking the question
what happens when there’s no ninth brain
let’s say that you’re in class and the
professor says ok it’s time for a group
project and you get assigned to be with
a group of five people does any of these
sound familiar but what happens
you if you’ve not been trained in ninth
brain technology you may be unable to
start on time you may not be able to get
everybody to the first meeting of this
budget group and if you don’t know to
consent to a facilitator then the ideas
that you have may not be all that well
disk discussed there may be conflict
between team members and that you it’s
hard to control the dominating
personalities will come in and say this
is the way it’s supposed to be and the
shy personalities that have a lot to say
don’t say anything and if people
actually do do their tasks and start to
carry them out well actually that’s
unlikely if you don’t know to consent to
an administrator who follows up with
everybody and making sure that they’re
so often I think it ends with maybe
three of you if you’re lucky spending an
all-nighter trying to pull this project
together because you care about your
grades cursing the other two that aren’t
there and that’s how it tends to go if
you haven’t had good training which a
lot of us haven’t add the octopus this
message is support each other
govern together you’re going to be
working with people in groups the rest
of your life and a lot of your success
in your career is when to depend upon
how well you are able to function in a
team employers prioritize looking for
people who have a proven record of being
able to function in a group let’s look
at a different scenario here we have a
group of students they’re meeting they
might be in a club at University Club
they might be doing a project of some
sort like we just talked about they
might be people in a dorm maybe one
section of a dorm but they’re meeting
together and they know what they’re
doing
they know about ninth grade technology
so they’re making decisions very
effectively very fast
how are they doing it but they’re using
something called consent and that’s not
consensus and it’s not majority vote
quite different if you’re making a
consent decision and one of the brains
here says oh I have a great idea it’s
this and this and nobody sees a risk in
it that you can’t take the decisions
Dunnell good enough for now safe enough
to try and centas acceptance it’s not
agreement so what does the facilitator
do facilitator make sure that the
conversation flows that everybody gets
their input one of the techniques you
might want to try is to do what’s called
around where you go for each person and
hear what their opinion is about a
topics that everybody’s heard their
equivalent which really helps the
self-organizing of thoughts and
everything is fair and there’s no
crosstalk allowed the administrator is
really necessary because if you have
group intelligent intelligence you need
a group memory and oh you need note and
you need to organize you also need
somebody who carries out the decisions
and the action items or make sure
they’re carried out after the meeting is
over that person might be a club
director it could be an RA and the dorm
mentioned before in the project it could
be the administrator but what’s most
important is that everybody needs to
contribute to this ninth frame we don’t
have one there we’re not octopuses and
we have to contribute to it so everybody
might have some tasks to be that
representative to another group on
campus or handling a project and so
forth the feeling of intimacy and the
feeling that I’m individual but part of
something greater is something that
occurs relatively infrequently to us
because we don’t know how to order
in a connected way if you’re in an
octopus like let’s say I’m one arm of an
octopus and I look at you and you’re
another arm I might say wow we’re
sharing the same blood we’re sharing the
same food we’re both in the same skinned
I can’t escape from you and you for me
we have to get along but humans don’t
have this constriction so you really
have to know the discipline in order to
achieve the kind of energy you get out
of a meeting that’s run by consent and
the flow that comes out of it I want to
give some examples of how groups around
the world are using ninth brain
technology group intelligence to have
fun and do some really interesting
things this is a playground in India the
children know about ninth brain
technology they know how to use incent
to elect each other they all have roles
in their neighborhood because they’re
there are many heartwarming stories
about the accomplishments students have
made in India they really have an effect
on their society getting bridges built
getting laws about when children have to
leave school you know the girls leaving
school early for getting married they’ve
managed to stop that all kinds of
amazing things at the School of Media
culture and design in Woodbury
University in California the professors
decided they were tired of feeling
overwhelmed all the time it wasn’t any
fun
so by consent they forbid themselves to
take work home at night it prioritized
their work they worked with priorities
and they found that they were much
fresher each day they were thinking a
lot better and the spool kept thorin and
growing
the lesson is that there may be things
in your life that just seem overwhelming
like you have no control over them but
it together you can solve those kinds of
problems and together we can solve some
of society’s problems that seem so
intractable here is Eindhoven University
in the Netherlands the graduate students
the doctorate students and the masters
students get together under the
sponsorship of their word ROM he started
it to support each other and their
thesis work that’s normally pretty
lonely work they get together and they
support each other and then in the end
they use Scioscia pratik election
methodology to elect their grades better
than the students say these are your
grades and you’d think like oh my
goodness the students are talking about
great but actually people who experience
it are very enthusiastic about it they
say that it’s a very fair process and
the learning is very deep the process of
the people in this room are the leaders
you ha are amazingly talented you’re the
change makers and society desperately
needs you to improve the governance
technology for yourselves in our
institution let’s work together to build
a global culture that looks at decision
making is a time for artistry not a time
to have a fight I encourage you to try
out ix brain technology while you’re a
student so that when you get into your
career
they’ll be much better prepared to
transform society check it out
I’m John buck I brought a theocracy from
the Netherlands back in the late 90s I
would love to know how you’re doing
this is the way you can contact me
please stay in touch and thank you [Applause]
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