Category: consciousness
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Glossary
A abiogenesis — scientific term for the generation of life from inorganic matter, as distinguished from “spontaneous generation” (e.g. maggots arising spontaneously from rotting meat), which was disproven by Louis Pasteur; today refers to hypotheses about the chemical origin of life, as from a primordial sea, via self-replicating molecules abduction — “an inspired inference,” term…
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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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earthDECKS – the neXt game
earthDECKS draws on the analog of card games, but in this “deck of cards” each card is a knowledge resource. A game-like knowledge ecosystem supports learning, emergent innovation, and cross-disciplinary problem-solving. As Francis Crick’s metaphor for the origin of life of the card deal reminds us that what seems impossible to predict before the fact…
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Home
Winston Churchill wrote, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” We must learn from history and be empowered by what we know to change what needs to be changed. That is the mission of POW! [Power Our World]. ALTON tells the story of the scandal that launched Abraham Lincoln’s campaign…
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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…