Category: cross-category
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If Microbes begat Mind – films
This film was taken of Zann Gill giving an early talk on the origin of life at NASA Ames in 2008. Part 1. Part 2. xxx Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.
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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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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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Artificial Life as a Petri Dish
Artificial life simulations reinforce hypotheses that possibly a species’ total skill set necessary for optimum survival may first be assembled through symbiosis, and only later encapsulated as heritable traits in single individuals. If new species can be created through genetic integration of traits first sampled in a symbiotic relationship, the Baldwin Effect would overcome the…
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Cities as Organisms
Barcelona is seen from the air in the daylight (above). Barcelona had an innovative vision for digitizing their city. Urban leaders gathered data on what caused people to leave the city and why jobs were lost. Cleanliness, safety, reliable transportation and urban services emerged as issues that mattered in citizens’ experiences of their city. People…
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Volvox – early collaborative intelligence
Volvox is a genus of freshwater green algae often found in ponds, ditches, or shallow puddles — one of the earliest communities manifesting collaborative intelligence. Volvox played a unique role as a precursor of multicellularity, illustrating how collaboration came very early in evolution. Volvox diverged from unicellular ancestors about 200 million years ago. Antonie Philips…
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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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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…
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