EMERGENT HUMANITY IS PLANETARY IN SCOPE

The emergence of nu and positive social systems may occur first in the developing world. Consider the linked story about women in Kenya trying to become leaders in the “culture of computer geeks” to serve Kenya’s futures development plan. Cell phones are spreading faster then laptops. Globally there is a rising wave of innovation and…

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COLOR as exemplar

This was a comment composed in YW related to an excellent article on how different cultures and languages divide up the regions of the color spectrum into differed names, such a blue or green.    ———– This is very interesting and I could devote days (even years) exploring the fractal depth of color (and sound, taste,…

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SEAFNETS and enhanced Y-Persons

Conspire, breathe life together, YES, Dan.  We can go a long way towards this fantasy vision, and maybe beyond, eventually. ALL aspects of each of our selves/WORLDS cannot yet (and maybe never) be coded in utterances (sems). Some of these may be inferred eventually by future YWorlds systems. Yet, our Y-Persons could truly be awesome….

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SEMS, Whorf, and Diversity

Dan, for over a day I thought this was your writing. My Adobe reader needed upgrading and my Windows Installer is often installing something I can’t detect which blocks all updates. It cleared and I was able to view Whorf’s ancient pdf, and find the above a direct quote – and still very important. Whorf…

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SEMS == Latour’s IMMUTABLE MOBILES

SEMS == IMMUTABLE MOBILES Constructive Review of Bruno Latour’s Visualization and Cognition                  nuet  12/16/12                  This 32 page PDF doc (Visualization and Cognition: Drawing Things Together) was a very exciting read, from which I took notes. I did not study the doc to the depth of every detail; I focused on how…

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MEMES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Comment on: It’s Time to Change What is Possible on Climate  nuet  12/16/12         I agree that complex systems can exhibit threshold effects and tipping points; and I do not question that attitudes towards climate change may be catalyzed to tip, or shift radically. However, I query whether we are near any significant threshold (given…

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What is Science ?

There is the budding edge of science (Kuhn’s paradigm shifting science  vs normal science) which speculates beyond the empirical evidence.  Science practice often overlooks (and sometimes intentionally suppresses) valid data that doesn’t agree with established scientific dogma. The history of science is full of such shenanigans. I don’t personally know, but IMHO almost all of…

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NODES and STRINGS

Glisten, I had this insight looking at your most recent graphic model posted in Y-World, and then looking again at some of your other maps/models. String Theory in physics was invented after I left the discipline and have yet to find a good book to give me an adequate introduction. All I know is that…

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