software company, and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC, which is a company that provides advanced AI for bioinformatic data analysis (especially microarray and SNP data); Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series, an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He is an advisor to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly theSingularity Institute) and formerly its Director of Research.
Max Tegmark, physicist at MIT, asserts that if the fabric of reality is made of electrons and quarks, then all things are purely mathematical. Through the Wormhole states that intelligent beings who complete the equations in our cosmos will understand it perfectly. No more need for faith and God, who were concepts developed in a more basic aspect of society. Here’s something to ponder on my part, “Do the advancements of technology weaken our willpower (in conjunction with the study by Kevin Rounding) that can lead to a trend of a shrinking religious affiliation (in terms of Danny Abrams’ study)?”
To counter Max’s position, Through the Wormhole introduces Marcelo Gleiser, cosmologist and theoretical physicist. Marcelo shares with us the Incompleteness Theorem by Kurt Gödel (1931). The theorem states that there is no such thing as a formal logic that is self-contained, which can prove every possible assertion within that system. Although I advise you to watch the show to see the example of how this theory works in action, it relays that there is a limit of how much we can know of the world. Through the Wormhole shares that rational thought cannot reveal all the truths to the universe.
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ral hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into interdependent, natural flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of ranking and excellence. Knowledge and competency should supersede power, status, or group sensitivity. The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of different levels of reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic spiral. Good governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested hierarchy). 1% of the population, 5% of the power. 8. Turquoise: Holistic . Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A "grand unification" [a "theory of everything" or T.O.E.] is possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire Spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction; detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization. 0.1% of the population, 1% of the power. With less than 2 percent of the population at second-tier thinking (and only 0.1 percent at turquoise), second-tier consciousness is relatively rare because it is now the "leading-edge" of collective human evolution. As examples, Beck and Cowan mention items that include Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere, chaos and complexity theories, universal systems thinking, integral-holistic theories, Gandhi's and Mandela's pluralistic integration, with increases in frequency definitely on the way, and even higher memes still in the offing.... Mark Michael Lewis - Ken Wilber Summary of Spiral Dynamics model
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e old order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. This quality of lukewarmness arises partly from a fear of adversaries, who have the law on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.”
Machiavelli - The Prince - 1513
ONLY when the last tree has died
and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught will
WE REALISE that ...
WE CANNOT EAT MONEY
BuckminsterFuller's concern with fine-tuning
communication, developing and using words that
are consistent with scientific reality, is one facet of
the role of language with respect to synergetics.
http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?q=Synergetics+…