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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We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth.
Thinking about Human Intelligence
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 […]
Continue readingThe Illusion of Choice
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 […]
Continue readingThe Intelligent Universe
Reposted from EDGE. Ray Kurzweil The universe has been set up in an exquisitely specific way so that evolution could produce the people that are sitting here today and we […]
Continue readingRemoving Suffering and Giving Joy
Reposted from SGI-USA Buddhism. Jeff Kriger There is a “self-centered” part of us that is constantly functioning-thinking first of ourselves, and then of others only when necessary. This is not necessarily […]
Continue readingSynocracy & Sociocracy
I have argued it was time to move beyond democracy. But, how will we make decisions in a synergic future? Remember synergy means working together. We are seeking the win-win-win-win […]
Continue readingWhy I don’t Vote
Seven people express their attitudes towards voting. Joseph S. Bommarito Hi. My name is Joe. I’m a . . . a voter. I didn’t start right out voting. You know […]
Continue readingKnow Where – Information
Timothy Wilken Human Intelligence results from the synergic relationship of two minds–the Space Mind and the Time Mind. Although they are NEVER separated in a normal human, we will separate […]
Continue readingBeyond Belief
Barry Carter Imagine telling a person from the Agriculture Age that one day their children will no longer be taught at home. Their children will go off to a building […]
Continue readingHelping Others
Barry Carter One of our human needs is that of helping others. Helping others has not been an integral part of our daily work lives during an Industrial Age. Our […]
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