RATE OF CHANGE, DEGREE OF CHANGE When the UPLIFT proposal calls for a rapid & significant uplift (in the distribution) of cognitive/emotional/performance competencies in the global human population in the period of a decade – it is usually automatically rejected as impossible. Human change takes a long time, often many generations – history informs us….

To survive the climate catastrophe “we” must create Humanity. Who are “we”? I call “we”, humankind [the social/societal system composed of human persons interacting with each other and living/working/playing/loving on/in/with “humankind constructed things” and Gaia]. Humanity is a term I reserve for the human system when most humans are functioning in harmony in analogy with…

This is the draft of a serial story of humankind birthing Humanity, to survive/thrive our Crisis-of-Crises, and launch a multi millennial expedition into a glorious future for Humanity/Gaia. The MSC (Magnitude/Scope/Complexity) of the Solutionateque must be commensurate with the MSC of our Problemateque. **** The Second Law of Cybernetics, or Ashbys Law of Requisite Variety…

I often “shout” – raise my voice. Some is due to my hard of hearing. I am often told to stop shouting on the telephone, when I, only then, recognize that my voice was loud. I was not intentionally shouting. But, in conversation with E I appear often to not be heard, so when I…

Initial dialog was on a FaceBook  thread in the CONVERSATION group hosted by John Kellden.  Peg is 90  Larry is 81 INTENTIONS FOR CONTACT AND DIALOG. Peg Wortman Larry, I read your blog and am interested in you, your limitations, and what seems to me your wanting to reach to other minds and make contact….

WHAT IF – ALTERNATIVES? What if you could only listen to one minute of a musical composition at a time, with a minimum of a day interval between listening? You could never actually “hear” them together as a whole. Yet, you are told they do form a whole, and as you listen to each segment,…

I’ve known of some of Richard Dawkins writings for decades, and have read a few. Until recently, I knew nothing about the man, his life. I had developed a negative stereotype of Dawkins as a reductionist from his stance reflected in the title of his book, The Selfish Gene, which I did read long ago…

The term “adaptation” is in frequent use by those concerned about the future of humankind and Gaia. I find the implications of the term “adaptation” limiting to what humankind can do. Humans can be assumed to have creative agency. Through “adaptation”, this creative agency is to be applied to the changing roles of humans and…

Solutionatiques for Problematiques whatever we do a more competent, knowledgeable, compassionate, organized humankind would be a positive. why then, is improving humankind not a primary intent of activists; but treated as a consequence that will follow actions from our  current levels/distribution of competencies?

THE NEW YORKER  MAY 2, I2016 SAME BUT DIFFERENT : How epigenetics can blur the line between nature and nurture  by   Siddhartha Mukherjee Author of new book: The Gene: An Intimate History Recommended by a dear friend, Jamie Lantz,  I read The New Yorker article with great interest. It was a creative essay that wove…