Steve McIntosh

... and as Jaron Lanier has said in his…

   "IF anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane

   which is so bloody complicated you can't understand  

   it, take it from me, it's all balls"  - R.J. Mitchell, he who

   was responsible for the design and development of the

   range of Supermarine Flying Boats, which although in

   itself, an important contribution to the realm of British

   aviation achievements, he became even better known 

   for his prowess in the world of high-speed flight and

   particularly …

   "MINDS are like parachutes, they only function when they're open."



                                                                                                     Thomas Robert "Tommy" Dewar

 AWAKEN TO THE ONE MIND

        As individuals, ants might be tiny dummies, but as colonies

        they respond…

    "MINDS are like parachutes, they only function when they're open."



                                                                           Thomas Robert "Tommy" Dewar





     The computer-generated information superhighway could launch

    a new renaissance of creativity for millions of visual thinkers! 

    Some of the greatest minds in politics, science, literature, and

    the arts experienced undetected learning disabilities that stopped

    them from assimilating information the same way as their peers.

    Some of our most…

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”  





                                                                            Buckminster Fuller…

Polly Higgins own deep questioning of the fundamental

assumptions of our culture have led her to even deeper questions: what further action is required to protect and conserve our Earth and to promote peace? Is the missing     link a law that holds to account our leaders? There is an omission of law here, a law endowed with the intrinsic       value of life, irrespective of any economic or other       utilitarian value we might have for human ends, a law to       end the most serious crime of concern to the international community as a whole and a law to create global justice.

MAKING SURE EARTH IS OUR BUSINESS

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 ... [IS] that which has been created by an artist • as I AM

 what I AM as an extension of the KOSMOS which IS & sure  

 ain't no ISer • who has primarily taken action in assuming

 responsibility for the ART of enlightened communication

 - has fully understood the need to transform information  

 into knowledge, knowledge into ideas & ideas - through

 imagination - into the wealth of art - & has finally

 committed to …

 OPEN MINDED CONSILIENCE

          "Ants aren't smart - Ant colonies are" 



As individuals, ants might be tiny dummies, but as colonies they respond quickly and effectively to their environment. They do it with something called swarm intelligence.



One key to an ant colony, for example, is that no one's in charge. No generals command ant warriors. No managers boss ant workers. The queen plays no role except to lay eggs. Even with half a million ants, a colony functions just fine with no management at all-at least none that we would recognize. It relies instead upon countless interactions between individual ants, each of which is following simple rules of thumb. Scientists describe such a system as self-organizing.





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and his wholehearted recommendation for me to read  Edward O. WIlson's CONSILIENCE, which does in[DEED] encompass "the unity of knowledge and the proof that everything in our world is organised in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws which underlie every branch " of the very learning process that I have had the privilege to engage in as a right-brained left-handed so-called dyslexic, over the last three score years and ten of [BE]ing a custodial example of ALL the passengers of Spaceship Earth.



[IT]s truly amazing that having read  The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson that I hadn't been aware of Wilson's writing of …

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