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You want to change your environment? Change your head!!

Ram Dass

Be Here Now
1971

You want to change your environment? Change your head!!

Ram Dass

Be Here Now
1971

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The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition

Michael Levin

The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition

2019

All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of subunits (organs, cells, and molecular networks) that are themselves complex and competent in their own native contexts. How do coherent biological Individuals result from the activity of smaller sub-agents?

Research Article
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Light of the Third Millennium

Terence McKenna

Light of the Third Millennium

1997

A presentation held during the Whole Life Expo at Palmer Auditorium.

Workshop
Added 5 weeks ago
01:21:54 9,550 12

Building The Earth

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Building The Earth

1965

A visionary and hopeful book on humanity's future relationship to the planet from which it arose, with paragraphs arranged in verse and interspersed with delicate graphic illustrations. Published posthumously ten years after Teilhard's passing.

Book
Added 8 weeks ago
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Nature Loves Complexity

Terence McKenna

Nature Loves Complexity

1998

Workshop
Added 13 weeks ago
01:14:40 8,114 4

A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals

Scott Gilbert

A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals

2012

For animals, as well as plants, there have never been individuals. This new paradigm for biology asks new questions and seeks new relationships among the different living entities on Earth. We are all lichens.

Article
Added 13 weeks ago
6,699 16

Ubuntu and the Law in South Africa

Yvonne Mokgoro

Ubuntu and the Law in South Africa

1998

While difficult to define, the concept of ubuntu is worth preserving and adapting to modern South African society.

Article
Added 16 weeks ago
2,751 6

Reflection of Energy

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Reflection of Energy

1952

Published in Revue des Questions Scientifiques, and later in Activation of Energy.

Essay
Added 21 weeks ago
5,323 13

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence

Hans Moravec

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence

1998

Like organisms evolved in gentle tide pools, who migrate to freezing oceans or steaming jungles by developing metabolisms, mechanisms, and behaviors workable in those harsher and vaster environments, our descendants, able to change their representations at will, may develop means to venture far from the comfortable realms we consider reality into arbitrarily strange worlds. Their techniques will be as meaningless to us as bicycles are to fish, but perhaps we can stretch our common-sense-hobbled imaginations enough to peer a short distance into this odd territory.

Article
Added 22 weeks ago
7,287 10

The Global Superorganism: An Evolutionary-Cybernetic Model of the Emerging Network Society

Francis Heylighen

The Global Superorganism: An Evolutionary-Cybernetic Model of the Emerging Network Society

2002

The organismic view of society is updated by incorporating concepts from cybernetics, evolutionary theory, and complex adaptive systems. Global society can be seen as an autopoietic network of self-producing components, and therefore as a living system or “superorganism”. Published in the Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems.

Research Article
Added 26 weeks ago
20,128 31

The Global Brain as an Emergent Structure from the Worldwide Computing Network

Gottfried Mayer-Kress

The Global Brain as an Emergent Structure from the Worldwide Computing Network

1994

We propose that the existence of a globally and tightly connected network of computer workstations such as the Internet can lead to the emergence of a globally self-organized structure which we refer to as the Global Brain. Published 1995 in The Information Society, Volume 11, Number 1.

Research Article
Added 27 weeks ago
11,592 8

A Crisis in Consciousness

Terence McKenna

A Crisis in Consciousness

1995

Terence argues that a solution to our collective planetary crisis has emerged, and it lies in a commitment to shamanistic, feminized, cybernetic, and caring forms of being—to take what each of us is in our very best moments and extend it to fill whole lifetimes.

Workshop
Added 29 weeks ago
53:02 6,202 10

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Alan Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

1950

Computing Machinery and Intelligence is a seminal paper written by Alan Turing on the topic of artificial intelligence. The paper, published in 1950 in Mind, was the first to introduce his concept of what is now known as the Turing test to the general public.

Article
Added 32 weeks ago
11,942 5

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