Circle of All Nations Digital Global Village – William Commanda's Indigenous Cybernetic Navigation into the Age of Information Technology
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Norbert Wiener [1] projected cybernetics as the dominant face of technological developments of the mid 1950s, this evident in interdisciplinary studies connecting fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, logic modeling, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, as well as, interestingly, anthropology and psychology; he also deliberated on ethical considerations in the human interface with technology. Juxtaposed with Marshall McLuhan's interconnected global village projection [2] this has focused attention on coexistence predicated on transnational commerce, migration, culture and marketplace, leading to the prioritization of business management and organizational learning for effective human functioning in social systems. This paper introduces the thinking and discourse [3] of late North American Indigenous Elder William Commanda (1913–2011) [4] into the ongoing explorations of Wiener's watershed work. While not representative of all Indigenous thinking on technology and communications, his approach involves the unique and dynamic integration of value, communication, technology and navigation in the projection of ideas for a global village available in online format that offers a model for analysis. The central point is that his understanding of a social system is emergent from relationality grounded in the laws of nature inclusive of a spiritual (not religious) value dimension, that technology and communications are accessed to affirm this systemic configuration, and that today the global village is the idiom for its manifestation. This paper examines his conceptualization of a microcosmic virtual global village with reach across time and space.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".