https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/equipotentiality-vs-credentialism/2006/03/08 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/equipotentiality-vs-credentialism/2006/03/08/comment-page-1#comment-372 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:14:26 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.com/?p=117#comment-372 […] One of the aims of P2P Theory, is not just to study social change and to understand the current transformation of our civilisation, but to have an understanding of the psychological underpinnings of this transformation. This project is beyond my own individual ability, but nevertheless, I am and will be collating material on this. My main argument is that our technologies reflect changes in our psyche (at least of a portion of us), and that once implemented, they create a feedback loop that transforms even more of us. Some preliminary material is the following. Please read the quotes in this entry on equipotentiality, which takes the position that we are differentiated human beings, singularities, with different abilities at different levels of development, psychic microchunks as it were, which can usefully find a place, through self-selection and communcal validation, in common P2P projects, as I argued in my editorial on the Great Cosmic Mash-Up. I’ve tried to summarise the psychological shifts in our culture, from atomistic individualism to a relational understanding, in my own manuscript. This is powerfully formulated by Jorge Ferrer: […]

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