Awareness Logic: The Pattern You Need to See Before You Can Act Differently
Most people already sense that something isn’t working — but we often don’t have a clear pattern or map for why or what’s required instead. This article presents the full sequence of awareness logic that underpins the work I do and the Living Systems Framework that supports it.
Before we can act differently, we have to see differently.
The work begins by developing a new awareness — of what’s really happening, why our systems can’t deliver what life needs, and what it means to become coherent with the logic of living systems.
In this work, the following is the cascade of the kinds of shifts in perception invited. They aren’t abstract beliefs — they’re material recognitions.
1. Awareness of Widespread Degeneration 🧨:
The world is not flourishing; it is in fact degenerating, as evidenced by ecological, social, and systemic breakdowns.
Most humans aspire for flourishing as they define it, but the dominant systems are not enabling it.
2. Reframing Flourishing 🌱:
Flourishing, definitionally, means humans living in sufficient, reciprocal relationship with the living world.
Most humans’ development hasn’t included the practical knowledge or consciousness of how to live in this way.
3. Recognition of Current Contribution to Degeneration 🪞:
I am contributing to degeneration in some way through my actions, work, or participation in current systems.
4. Understanding the Knowledge Gap 🧠:
The knowledge needed for regeneration is not common. It is largely absent from mainstream education, cultural narratives, and economic structures.
This knowledge is fundamentally about universal patterns that bring forth flourishing in living systems, which are overlooked or misunderstood in conventional thinking.
5. Limitations of Current Systems 🚧:
Current economic and social systems cannot be regenerative because they lack the foundational knowledge of living systems' patterns and principles.
The mainstream human world, as currently structured, cannot be changed to be regenerative without significant transformation in underlying paradigms.
6. Locating the Knowledge of Living Systems 🧬:
Humans have living systems consciousness in their biology, just like all other species and all levels of life.
Humans are animals with nervous systems, capable of sophisticated abstract thinking. However, our thinking has predominantly emerged as mechanistic consciousness rather than living systems consciousness.
7. The Necessity of Living Systems Consciousness 💡:
A thinking tool is needed to support the development of living systems consciousness — such as the Living Systems Framework, or a similar tool that itself embodies living systems principles.
8. Action: Seeding Pockets of Generation 🌾:
The mainstream human world is resistant to fundamental change; thus, pockets of generation need to be seeded, nurtured, and propagated in and from open spaces.
These efforts must be informed by living systems consciousness and savvy human systems consciousness, and follow principles of Life Emergence.
9. Organizing for Generation 🧩:
Any group aiming to seed generation must be composed of individuals with sufficient living systems consciousness.
The group itself must be structured to embody living systems principles:
Internally effective (Self-organization, Autonomy, Self-maintenance)
Internally healthy (Interdependence, Co-evolution, Self-production)
Externally impactful (Exchange, Contribution, Membrane integrity)
10. Five Example Implications for Human Systems (Derived from Living Systems Consciousness) ⚖️:
Orientation: The fundamental orientation must be to life (Life-affirmation).
Action and Evolution: Action informs the next moment and systems change (Co-evolution, Contribution, Nested Structures).
Development Focus: Emphasis must be placed on developing consciousness and action-taking (Cognition, Self-production).
Truth-Seeking: Truth-seeking must be specific to self, specific context, and systemic fundamentals (Interdependence, Self, Environment).
Decentralized Autonomy: Decision-making and action-taking must be decentralized and autonomous (Autonomy, Cognition, Contribution).
If you’re seeing the world differently after reading this, and want to explore how to act from this awareness, visit collaborativism.org and book a call.