We will all be refuges from civilization, needing to migrate to a new humanity – the societal butterfly.  Those in refuge camps and those challenging poverty in the slum rings (favelas) surrounding many cities on Earth are populations ripe for uplift. Hear Stewart Brand on Squatter Cities. Where to place those flooded out by rising…

Websites are like spaces, areas where we “walk” our attention, perceive and act (modify the semfield – the structure of individual sems and their varied relationships).  We need to develop an attitude towards some websites similar to what we give to “home” and “country”.  We value them and return to them and preserve-but-improve them. Structures…

Proposition <-LINK: With humankind, the domain of information is liberated from the domains of matter/energy, and conventional biology. In context with this proposition I propose a corollary proposition: Human cognitive/conceptual/emotional diversity (individual differences in profiles of cognitive/conceptual/emotional competencies) is VAST.  It is also relatively independent of neo-Darwinian selection, and may be rapidly increasing. Humankind can…