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Homesteading the Noosphere

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0. $Date: 2002/08/02 09:02:15 $ Revision History Revision 1.22 24 August 2000 esr Handicap theory, peacocks, and stags. Parallels with knighthood. Revision 1.22 24 August 2000 esr DocBook 4.1 conversion. Revision 1.21 31 Aug 1999 esr Major revision for the O’Reilly bo...

Cultivatin'g, the Songlines of the Noosphere

Poetry-making and Policy-making (*) 12. 1 Prospects for an arranged marriage 12.2 Overtures of the Beast 12.3 Overtures of Beauty 12.4 Voice of the Matchmaker 12.5 Poetic configuration of policy guidelines 12.6 Enhancement of policy through key poetic insights 12.7 Vision of a poetic policy project 12.8' ~;nv,:;ioning the policy-making experience of the future , 12,9 Fdicy disc(;urse through me...

Noosphere Evolution and Value Metabolism

CONTENTS Introduction The Search for a “Unit of Culture” The Laws of Evolution Applied to the Noosphere Autopoiesis in Noosphere Holons Agreements and Relationships—Noosphere Organisms From Meaning to Value Beauty, Truth, and Goodness—The Primary Values The Directions of Evolution Tripartite Evolution The Perfection Directions Applications of the Theory for Noosphere Evolution Value Nourishment...

Remember the Protofibrils

The highly prevalent neurodegenerative diseases Alzheimer’s (AD), Parkinson’s (PD), and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) have managed to elude countless efforts directed at understanding their causative agents and pathogenesis. Each of these diseases is characterized by abnormal protein aggregation under an unknown modi operandi we have determined to illuminate. AD pathology consists of neur...

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