Category: earthDECKS
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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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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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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,…