A traditional book has covers, a table of contents, chapters
so is linear and fixed in time and space. An electric book has search
engines
use "wiredbrain"
which is not limited in content therefore is non-linear and not fixed in
time or space.
- Communications, media, the nature of work and the wealth
of nations.
Like the human brain, the internet's packets system could
reconfigure itself to work even after portions were destroyed. But using the
noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it was impossible to build the
necessary switches. Baran concluded that all the traffic would have to be
digital. Moreover, the digital traffic would have to be broken into short
message blocks now called "packets," each containing its own routing
information,
like a DNA
molecule, and able to replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission
error occurred. With many additions and permutations, his original design is
today termed the Internet, and click here for the emerging history
Each individual human, student, teacher, businessperson,
politician is at the center of a network of connections, consultants, money, and
interests always shifting in their alliances to any larger group. Each industry
is a network of partners, relationships, and connections. Each business, family,
school, church is slowly becoming a wide area network of dynamic relationships
formed mutually with others of their kind and with quite foreign groups. While
people have always been connected, the form, range and style of these
connections are most important, it's what we call society. Societies of local
tribal connections are very different in quality and quantity from the global
society on the Internet.
The style of the Free Masons are different from Madison
Avenue. Updates are needed because many new ideas are not in the current text
books. Teachers and readers can create pages to connect to this new information.
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
Every text-book, news story, encyclopedia article, should
have a web page such as this or
weblife.html. Some of these
subjects are 30 years old but have not appeared in MOST text books, reference
books, or even the knowledge of "experts". Former scientific revolutions took 30
to 50 years to appear in the "literature", shouldn't the Internet make a
difference.
Human Evolution was for 300,000 years in
troops - where everyone knew each other, their names and the relationships. Any
animal behavior in their packs, troops, herds and their breading behavior is
almost impossible to change.
The few species that became domestic have patterns
of status and "pecking orders" that allow humans to "implant" themselves as
dominant and in control. Most species will not become domestic after thousands
of years of efforts. Zebras do not act like horses, Camels remain nasty, most
animals are subject to panic and some will not bread in zoos. Humans have
evolved with the same kind of behavioral "groves". Social conditions that fit
the groves of human psychology and social-biological habits (Edward O.
Wilson)work better that conditions that don't. "Human" urban conditions push
humans beyond the breaking point. Stable organizations must use "group dynamics"
as forms of extended families and clans, troops and tribes to form nations.
The functions of any society, group, class,
school, business, is:
1.) Effective conflict resolution
PATHOS ( feeling ) good
rather than nasty 2.) rational effective decision making
They can behave more reasonably 3.) harmonious economic redistribution (
synergy )
ETHOS -
shared values and goods - not socialism but rational welfare policy - makes one
and two possible - Capitalism as Greed is dysfunction - but so is free for
nothing socialism
4.) better technology ( the result of one, two and three )
plus 5.) police and/or military power ( law and order ) 6.) large and
productive territories by way of the the growth of US as more and more others
are included as US and less defense from them as less and less outsiders are
THEM. Good Religion and Politics should allows for more inclusion less
exclusion. All religion is not good, all values are not right or useful, all
politics is not bad, all education is not useful, all business is not greedy,
all women, blacks, Jews, et al is not anything. Prejudice is not a rational
guide to social or personal wisdom.
The inclusion of more and more people and their differences
allows for innovations, freedom of expression, democracy, freedom and
7.) integration of smaller groups into larger wholes -
The Politically correct visions of left and right often miss
the fundamentals of social history and science.
The right forgets the critical
role of the "whole" and the left the requirements for standards and clear
returns on investments, where cost and benefits depend on individual achievement
motivation to go faster, further and higher. Such motivation is best done in
"collectives" families, groups, packs, tribes, schools, factories, political
parties, churches, and other human
By Kevin Kelly Our future is technological; but
it will not be a world of gray steel. Rather our technological future is headed
toward a neo-biological civilization.
Systems - Social Science - economics "Fritjoe
Capra"
Dissipative Structures are patterns of non-linear forms
created in systems far from equilibrium such as Benard cells, tornados, lasers
and living things such as the U.S. Congress and Microsoft. "Llya
Prigogine"
Autopoiesis are
self-organizing, reproducing, evolving patterns of interactions of Dissipative
feedback loops within and among living things such as the stock market, families
and states. "Humberto Maturana"
Microcosms - symbiogenesis - new forms from the merging of
independent elements, these microbiology networks, such as mitochondria, create
technologies of genetic engineering and global communications networks which
produced and regulate life on earth such as the WWW, PC's, software, chips and
satellites, cable and networks. (Margulis, Lovelock)
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Looking for life in all the wrong places
From: rendan Kitts
brendy@cs.brandeis.edu I created a
topic on Excite (advances in Artificial Intelligence on the
index page), and added a page (intelligent
living systems) to your
evolutionary
and Adaptive Systems at COGS Last update: May 1997
The School of
Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS) in the University of Sussex at Brighton
is home to one of the world's largest groups of researchers studying artificial
evolutionary
and adaptive systems. Such work is often described using names such as
Artificial Life,
evolutionary
Computation, and Adaptive Behavior research.