Consilience

Consilience means everything "jumping together" (all boundaries are blurred) There is a fine entry about consilience at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience

"Consilience, or the unity of knowledge (literally a "jumping together" of knowledge), has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process, a vision at odds with mystical views in many cultures that surrounded the Hellenes. The rational view was recovered during the high Middle Ages, separated from theology during the Renaissance and found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment. Then, with the rise of the modern sciences, the sense of unity gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries." (Consilience)

In reading some of the participant responses to our survey some wrote about being All One, or Coming Together... the idea of consilience emerged as I read through their responses.

Edward O. Wilson's 1998 book Consilience is one of the great achievements in western literature for cultural and scientific criticism and analysis. It is an extraordinary book, especially for clarifying how the blurring of boundaries among disciplines has come about and placing it in a historical and cultural context. He argues that for the 21st century there are two ways of knowing the world (i.e., producing new knowledge) Science and the Arts.

Wilson is persuasive in showing how the arts produce knowledge and the significance of that knowledge for our continued growth and development.

If we are to make this a theme for the final production, we need to appropriate it in ways that show how technology has brought about arts collaboration and the creation of new work through the interpenetration of individual arts, and the cohesion of arts and sciences.