Symmetric Communication in the Levels of Information and Intellect

Lecturer: Kenji Nanasawa, Representative Director of General Incorporated Association Shirakawa Gakkan
Editor: Parole Editorial Section, Yasushi Ohno, supervisor

Q:
For the past two days, I have participated in the G-code seminar online. A variety of codes were introduced, including the ethics codes, food codes, and language codes, each of which were taught to correspond to 50 gods in the galaxy system, 50 sounds in the Japanese language, and 50 stars. It was a great learning experience for me.
Like last time, listening to questions and answers between participants and lecturers in real-time enabled me to learn and realize a lot of things. This situation felt exactly like symmetric communication. I would like to hear your views on this.

In the Internet era, it is possible to learn not only through one-way communication but also through two-way communication. The benefits are particularly remarkable in the field of education. This is because interactive communication switches between one-to-one communication and one-to-many communication alternately, regardless of whether it is between individuals or groups. As a result, when you are a teacher, you can not only provide information unilaterally but also receive and learn information from the students at the same time.

In addition, this change will shift our recognition of the owner of information and knowledge: from individual ownership to common ownership. This trend will accelerate more and more in the future.

So, specifically, what changes will occur in society?

For example, tasks have usually been assigned to individual workers. In the future, multiple people will be involved in the same task to complete it together. The time has come for each person to be forced to work in this manner.

In that case, even when people undertake a task they are not familiar with, it seems as if they have already experienced it. It is vital that you get your work done right, and furthermore, you will be tested if you can take the initiative in sharing your task and what you can do with others. As a result, whether you can demonstrate such abilities or not will greatly influence your personal evaluations in the future.

However, while it is important to disseminate information in this manner, it is also essential to return the information to yourself with the movement of the Mobius strip. This is because if the information remains discrete, it becomes difficult for those who share the information to achieve further learning or awareness alone. Therefore, the most important aspect in the upcoming work practice where multiple workers undertake a task together is that each person actively exchanges opinions and confirms each process.

Now, it is essential to objectively realize your current position in the whole picture and what you can provide to the team, while repeating the dissemination and concentration of information. At the same time, you are required to find guidelines for which direction to go and what goals to pursue from time to time with an overview image.

In the midst of a great transition age, we are confronting a dramatic change in the levels of information and intellect (brains). Many people are intuitively conscious that it is time to learn. This is the reason why there is now a trend of active interactive learning.

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Kenji Nanasawa
Born in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture in 1947. After graduating from Waseda University, he completed a Doctoral Program in the Graduate School of Letters at Taisho University. He developed an information processing system based on knowledge modeling of traditional medicine and philosophies and is a researcher of religious studies. He is involved in developing a next-generation system for digitizing language energies. Mr. Nanasawa re-established the Shirakawa Gakkan as a research institute for the study of the court rituals and ceremonies carried out by the Shirakawa family of Kyoto, a noble family that oversaw the Jingi, an office for religious rituals, for 800 years from the mid- Heian period to the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. He currently serves as the representative director of Shirakawa Gakkan and CEO of the Nanasawa Institute, among other positions.

He has written and served as the editorial supervisor for a number of books, among them Why Do Things Go Well with Japanese? Knowledge Modeling Inherent in Japanese Language and Culture (Naze nihonjin wa umakuikunoka? Nihongo to nihon bunka ni naizai sareta chishiki moshikika gijutsu) (Bungeisha). Also, he is the supervising editor of Three Works on the Study of Hebrew from a Shinto Perspective (Shinto kara mita heburai kenkyu sanbusho) (by Koji Ogasawara), and co-author with Koji Ogasawara of Princess Otohime of the Dragon Palace and Urashima Taro (Ryugu no Otohime to Urashima Taro).