Howard Rheingold
Field of reference: Biology, Sociology, Neuroscience
Description: Howard Rheingold (writer,critic, lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford) talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.
"Here is the old story -- we've already heard a little bit about it: biology is war in which only the fiercest survive; businesses and nations succeed only by defeating, destroying and dominating competition;politics is about your side winning at all costs. But I think we can see the very beginnings of a new story beginning to emerge. It's a narrative spread across a number of different disciplines, in which cooperation, collective action and complex interdependencies play a more important role. And the central, but not all-important, role of competition and survival of the fittest shrinks just a little bit to make room."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, הטבע, 1. רמת קשר |
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Dr. Martin Nowak
Field of reference: Biology, Math
Description: RSA talk on how evolution is based on cooperation, rather than competition
"Martin Nowak, one of the world’s experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. He offers a new explanation for the origin of life and a new theory for the origins of language, biology’s second greatest information revolution after the emergence of genes."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, הטבע, 1. רמת קשר |
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Dr. Martin Nowak
Field of reference: Biology, Math
Description: Evolution is based on cooperation, rather than competition
"Martin Nowak, one of the world’s experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. He offers a new explanation for the origin of life and a new theory for the origins of language, biology’s second greatest information revolution after the emergence of genes."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, הטבע, 1. רמת קשר |
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Wikipedia - Phase Transition
Field of reference: Physics
Description: Second-order phase transitions are common phenomena in e.g. condensed matter physics, particle physics, early-universe physics, etc. By its very definition, a "phase" refers to the global state of a system, or a sub-system, but obviously not to individual particles. In second order phase transition, as one gets closer to the phase-transition point sub-systems begin to feel larger and larger portions of the systems and align themselves with the part of the system that they are correlated with in such a manner that the entropy is maximized and the energy is minimized. The "correlation length" becomes infinite at the transition point, i.e. each sub-system "feels" the rest of the system in its entirety.
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, הטבע, 1. רמת קשר |
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Thomas Huxley
Field of reference: Biology
Description: Evolution, attaining new levels of existence
"The different branches of science combine to demonstrate that the universe in its entirety can be regarded as one gigantic process, a process of becoming, of attaining new levels of existence and organization, which can properly be called a genesis or an evolution."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, הטבע, 1. רמת קשר |
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