Dave Pollard of Salon Natural and social systems are complex — that is, not entirely knowable, unpredictable, resistant to cause-and-effect analysis, in a word, mysterious. For our first three million years on Earth we humans, like every other species on the planet, accepted that mystery. We adapted rather than trying to change our environment. We [ Read More ]
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Merlin Donald Origins of the Modern Mind (1991) was an attempt to synthesize various sources of information–neurobiological, psychological, archeological and anthropological, among others–about our cognitive origins, in the belief that the human mind co-evolved in close interaction with both brain and culture… This precis focuses on my core theory and disregards most of the background [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Collective
Ben Fitzhugh of the University of Washington Introduction "The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgement leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other." (Kuhn 1970:77) "Normal science can proceed without rules only so long as the relevant [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Collective
By Monica Sharma, M.D.Director, Leadership and Capacity Development, United Nations, OHRLLS Our World We are living in a time of whole system transition on a personal and planetary scale that affects every aspect of life as we know it. Patterns of possibility are emerging that have never before been available to all the earth’s people [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Collective
Paul Ehrlich w/ Seed Magazine Does human culture evolve via natural selection, as our genes do? Biologists have a pretty good idea of both how flies become resistant to DDT and how humans and primates have diverged over time. That’s because the mechanism underlying these processes is the same. Using evolution we can understand how [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality, Social Collective
By George Por Wisdom Society or Extinct Society Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but that the awareness of it is not evenly distributed. Why is this important? Because, the choice is between joining together to create a wisdom society or regressing into an extinct society. [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Collective
