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If Microbes begat Mind: origins of life and intelligence
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in A-PR Hypothesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, artificial life, Baldwin Effect, Blog, Charles Darwin, collaborative autonomy, collaborative intelligence, consciousness, cross-category, Daedalus, design, design science, earthDECKS, ecosystem, evolution, Fibonacci Numbers in Nature, Gaia Hypothesis, games, If Microbes begat Mind, innovation networks, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, learning, mavericks, microbes, mind, next generation social networks, origin of life, origin of multicellularity, Origin of Species, pattern recognition, Prisoner’s Dilemma, simulations, struggle for existence, symbiosis, synergetics, Tragedy of the Commons, What Daedalus told Darwin, Zann GillNo one would explain scientific progress as randomly generated hypotheses from which the community selects the fittest to survive. So why do we accept such an arbitrary view of evolution? There was indeed a Designer of life – life designed itself in the context of, and interacting with, its environment. The origin of life is…
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Lamarck, Darwin and Wallace
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, later Chevalier de Lamarck (1744 – 1829) was a distinguished professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. His advance over Aristotle’s static Scala Natura, or Great Chain of Being, was to introduce the dynamic concept that life’s behavior propels the ongoing evolution of species in a theory he…
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Rainforests: Collaborative Intelligence Ecosystems
The rainforest manifests “collaborative intelligence” in a co-dependent ecosystem. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that 70 percent of the anti-cancer plants identified to date are rain forest plants. A new drug under development by a private pharmaceutical company, possibly for treating HIV, is Calanolide A, which is derived from a tree discovered on Borneo,…
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Next Generation Social Networks
Making sense of today’s deluge of Big Data is a great IT challenge, requiring Design Synthesis. Zann Gill predicts that crowdsourcing platforms will evolve into next generation social networks to support the emerging field of collaborative intelligence. Her talk at Draper University describes this thought leadership space and its emerging potential for a range of…
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SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design & Architecture for Cities
In recent years, new lighting technologies have been used to illuminate cities and towns in creative, energy-efficient ways. “Smart Light” is now a widely used term for the new technologies and ecological ideas that are transforming nighttime atmospheres and spectacular Smart Light festivals are awing audiences around the world. Featuring more than 120 public artworks,…
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Gaming the Future
Buckminster Fuller, Irving Janis, and others, provide inspiration for a new approach to the development of learning media. Fuller emphasized that synergy is whole system behavior that cannot be predicted from the behavior of its parts. Synergetics is the dynamics through which synergies are produced. Buckminster Fuller conceived the idea of “design science” (1951), “World…
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Overview
Site Navigator Overview of the site and three key strands of the Gordian knot. More Next Generation Social Networks Making sense of today’s deluge of Big Data is a great IT challenge, requiring Design Synthesis. Zann Gill predicts that crowdsourcing platforms will evolve into next generation social networks to support the emerging field of collaborative…