Reposted from EDGE. Stuart A. Kauffman In his famous book, What is Life?, Erwin Schrödinger asks, “What is the source of the order in biology?” He arrives at the idea […]
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The New Humanists
Reposted from EDGE. John Brockman In 1991, in an essay entitled “The Emerging Third Culture,” I put forward the following argument: In the past few years, the playing field of […]
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We humans are great at not believing what we don´t want to believe. There are none so blind as those that will not see, nor none so deaf as those […]
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The following is the introduction to a new book that is nearing publication. Andrew McKillop Willingly or not the world will learn what Peak Oil means. The major underlying theme of […]
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In this transcript of his Global Vision video interview – a message in a bottle from 1983 – Buckminster Fuller talks about the revolutionary aspects of literacy and education, anticipating in […]
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Timothy Wilken Medard Gabel was the Director of World Game Institute, a nonprofit global education and research organization founded by Buckminster Fuller in 1972. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, this […]
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Korzybski with his discovery humanity’s power of time-binding, and his commitment to creating a truly human science (humanology), developed a powerful tool he called General Semantics. … Thanks again to […]
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The following lecture was originally published in The Mathematics Teacher, May, 1923, Vol. XVI, No. 5 under the title Fate and Freedom. Alfred Korzybski spend most of his life establishing a […]
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Reposted from Strike The Root. Craig Russell Behind that which is seen, lies something which is not seen. ~ Frederic Bastiat We tend to think of technology as personal convenience, […]
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The following essay is reposted from The Wind of Change. Author Unknown Einstein said “no apparently insoluble problem can be resolved by the same order or level of thinking as […]
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