As I explained in last month’s SafeEarth Series, protecting humanity as individuals and humanity as community requires intelligent actions. Today, humanity is interdependent. We share the same planet and that […]
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World as System
Today, Dr. Bessinger discusses wholeness, systems, and a powerful property called emergence. Emergence is another word for synergy. This is the fifth Chapter from the online book: Living Ethics: The Way […]
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This is the fourth Chapter from the online book: Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness. See: 1) How Should We Live? 2) Ethics and Civilization 3) Worldview and Ethics Donivan Bessinger, […]
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This is the third Chapter from the online book: Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness. See: 1) How Should We Live? 2) Ethics and Civilization Donivan Bessinger, MD We have said […]
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This is the second Chapter from the online book: Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness. See: 1) How Should We Live? Donivan Bessinger, MD — Individually and collectively we must […]
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The following is the first Chapter of an interesting online book called: Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness Donivan Bessinger, MD It was after midnight. In the tropical night, I […]
Continue readingWhither Psychoanalysis in a Computer Culture?
Reposted from KurzweilAI.net In the early 1980s, MIT professor Sherry Turkle first called the computer a “second self.” With this essay, she presents a major new theory of “evocative objects”: […]
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Reposted from EDGE. Howard Rheingold Smart mobs use mobile media and computer networks to organize collective actions, from swarms of tech-savvy youth in urban Asia and Scandinavia to citizen revolts […]
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Excerpted and reposted from a longer article at EDGE. Marvin Minsky Why don’t we yet have good theories about what our minds are and how they work? In my view […]
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Reposted from The Yellow Times. Matthew Riemer Nothing stirs up Americans’ sense of pride more than the classic and highly effective buzzwords that relate to America’s founding and its political […]
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