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  1. Mar 2025
  2. Feb 2025
    1. impounding

      impounding

      1. seize and take legal custody of (something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents) because of an infringement of a law or regulation.
      2. shut up (domestic animals) in a pound or enclosure.
  3. Jan 2025
    1. haptic realism

      for - haptic realism - definition - Mazviita Chirmuuta - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar

      definition - haptic realism - Mazviita Chirimuuta - While mainstream scientific realism suggests that if a scientific theory is mature and supported by strong empirical evidence, then that scientific representation can be taken as the literal truth of how things exactly are. - In contrast, haptic realism, as the name "haptic" suggests, holds that the observer (human agent) through human touching / sensing of the aspect of nature studied plays an important role in contributing to the scientific representation. - In other words, the observer cannot simply be ignored and scientific truth has a kind of built-in degree of constructivism and relativism that depends on the perspectival frame of the observer - The many processes that occur when scientists are generating their theories creates simplifying models that strip away the complexities of reality but can be characterized by one perspective view - The scientist is situated and has his/her own unique - Lebenswelt (lifeworld), - perspective - instrumentation - narrative - to the observation and theoretical construction of the measured / observed data - But this is only one of many potential constructions - In this sense, haptic realism considers that the "objective" scientific reality is a partnership between - that which is observed - the modality of observing (instrumentation, techniques) - the linguistic words and constructed narratives using those words

    1. HR Planning is a strategic process that helps companies plan for future human resources that are needed to support the growth, or downsizing of production demands. It allows companies to predict the future, analyze the needs of the company, decide the market availability of candidates for specific jobs, and make decisions when and how to adapt and use human resources (people

      I think this paragraph hasn't define the HR Planning, just tries to identify some of its characteristics by using phrases like "that helps" and "It allows". please comment if someone see my point.

    1. creative minorities

      for - definition - creative minorities - Arnold Toynbee, author of The Study of History - groups capable of inspiring action among the larger, less-educated, and less-visionary masses - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17

    1. So what is the central meaning of the word ‘reflexive’ in ‘reflexive moderniz- ation’? 4 ‘Reflexive’ does not mean that people today lead a more conscious life. On the contrary. ‘Reflexive’ signifies not an ‘increase of mastery and consciousness, but a heightened awareness that mastery is impossible’ (Latour, 2003).

      for - definition - reflexive (in reflexive modernity) - not more conscious but increased awareness that mastery is impossible - SOURCE - paper - The Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Problematic, Hypotheses and Research Programme - Ulrich Beck, Wolfgang Bonss and Christoph Lau - 2003

    1. Numinous - picked up of course, by Jung - to describe what the original, the primordial experience of the numinous is

      for - definition - numinous - primordial - Otto - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    2. horror would be to be overwhelmed by loneliness. Would be overwhelmed by homesickness, cultural shock and a tremendous sense of alienation, absurdity, and anxiety.

      for - definition - horror - alienation - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    3. I’m always seeing by means of the I”. It is phenomenologically mysterious to [us], but it doesn't mean that I'm unaware of it. I always have - to use older language, from the course I mean - I always have a subsidiary awareness. I'm always aware through my “I” of my “me”. I'm always aware through my framing of my framed. I'm not completely out of touch with it. It is not inaccessible to me, but I cannot focalised it.

      for - quote - subsidiary awareness - I cannot finalize it but can be aware of it - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke - definition - subsidiary awareness - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

      quote - subsidiary awareness - I cannot finalize it but can be aware of it - John Vervaeke - (see below) - I’m always seeing by means of the I”. - It is phenomenologically mysterious to [us], but - it doesn't mean that I'm unaware of it. - I always have a subsidiary awareness. - I'm always aware through my “I” of my “me”. - I'm always aware through my framing of my framed. - I'm not completely out of touch with it. - It is not inaccessible to me, - but I cannot focalised it.

    4. I can't use the grammar of subjects and objects, subjects and predicates, conceptual categories to talk about this (RR transjectivity) in the sense of exemplifying it!

      for - definition - relevance realisation transjectivity - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    5. NO! You didn't get me because (changes Framing to another Framed and draws another arrow outside the bigger box, connecting to it) what's outside here still is… what is framing that? You cannot have this… You can't have it as a focal object. It is mysterious. It is phenomenologically mysterious. James pointed to this in a wonderful distinction between the I and the Me (I: Me).

      for - adjacency - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - finger pointing to the moon - subject / I am phenomenologically mysterious - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition - potential vs kinetic adjacencies

      adjacency - between - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - the eye cannot see itself - self consciousness - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition potential adjacencies - definition kinetic adjacencies - adjacency relationship - William James's I-me relationship is about the paradox of self consciousness - modern humans distinguish themselves through excelling in cognitive abilities - but what happens when we turn this cognitive abilities onto ourselves? - Self consciousness is what results - reasoning about the reasoner - Just as the eye cannot truly see itself, the reasoner who reasons about him/her self cannot really do so because the "I" is NOT really the same as the "me" - the subject is not the object, - the act of framing is not the frame - the qualia is NOT the same as the idea that represents the qualia - the moon is not the finger pointing to the moon - hence the I, the act of framing the subject is phenomenologically mysterious - In contrast, in indyweb, we can replace annotation with Innotation, an inline version of annotation - This is because of the recursive nature of learning of ideas - When we digest an idea, that has an externalised (re)presentation, and it triggers the emergence of a new idea, - We can capture the newly inspired idea a an inline Innotation instead of a side bar annotation. - The reason why we would do this is because this is more homeomorphic to how knowledge context switches its role - from an active new insight - to an existing cultural artefact / object that can be digested by another mind - The difference is the idea - as a spontaneous emergent, embodied, enactive real-time , LIVING experience, which then becomes, post experience, an idea that is - a DEAD cultural artefact that is ready to be digested and potentially evoke a new strong LIVING response in another consciousness - The idea as a linguistically constructed cultural artefact is DEAD - until it interacts with another consciousness, - and at such time, the cultural artefact can deliver upon itz intended promise and potential, and trigger a LIVING learned experience. - Innotation converts the once LIVING experience of the idea at the moment of birth / Inception to the form of existing, timebound knowledge test to do the same in the future, when new minds may stumble upon it - Learning from linguistic cultural artefacts is thus - the act of conversion of - potential adjacencies into - kinetic adjacencies

    6. my insight goes from a reframing to a transframing, because I stopped having insights about my focal problem [and] I start getting an insight, not about just the problem or the world, I also - remember of the sensibility transcendence; I'm also getting an insight into the inadequacies of my style of framing, my way of framing - I'm getting a trans-framing happening.

      for - definition - transframing - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    7. Religio is… I'm using it in a spiritual sense, [in] the sense of a pre-egoic, ultimately a post-egoic, binding that simultaneously grounds the self and its world.

      for - definition - religio - John Vervaeke - means to bind together, to connect. Here it is used in the sense of binding that simultanously grounds the self and its world - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

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    1. there’s an admirable motivation behind Dreher’s ethical project of reenchantment: He wants to help people find meaning

      for - definition - reenchantment - source - book - Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age - Rod Dreher - adjacency - reenchantment - Meaning crisis - John Vervaeke

  4. Dec 2024
    1. p(doom) is the "probability of doom" or the chances that AI takes over the planet or does something to destroy us,

      for - p(doom) - definition - stats - p(doom) - 0.01 to 99.999999%

      p(doom) - definition - the "probability of doom" or the chances that AI takes over the planet or does something to destroy us,

      stats - p(doom) - founders of AI - Yann LeCun - less than 0.01% - Geoff Hinton - 10% chance on the next 20 years - Yoshua Bengio - 20% - Roman Yampolskiy, AI safety scientist and director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville - 99.999999%

    1. The phenomena do not disappear, but simply get reflected. Sounds, mental images, sensations, smells are all present without any isolation and there is a flavour of synesthesia to it. This state gives rise to the feeling of spaciousness.

      for - definition - spaciousness - of meditation experience - flow state - like synesthesia - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

    2. shi-ne

      for - definition - Shi-ne - Shamatha without object - open awareness - the Tibetan meditation practice of becoming aware of our habitual tendency to reify and essentialize phenomena, experiencing them as having independent, non-relational reality of their own, both for - inner phenomena (thoughts and emotions) - outer phenomena (sensations) - It also goes by two other names - Shamatha without object - open awareess - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7 - adjacency - Tibetan shi-ne meditation - insight into our habit of reifying reality into objects - object permanence in child psychology - feral children and role of language enculturation in our constructed reality - Deep Humanity BEing journeys to give insight into deeper layer of phenomenological experience

      adjacency - between - Tibetan shi-ne meditation - insight into our habit of reifying reality into objects - object permanence in child psychology - Dr. Oliver Sacks medical case histories - feral children and absence of enculturation on human experience of reality - potential Deep Humanity BEing journeys to penetrate early deep conceptual layer - new relationship - question - Is shi-ne, in one sense attempting to get us to penetrate our deep conditioning of object permanence in our early child development years? - Before we mastered object permanence, we essentially experienced really as an undivided whole, a gestalt - To understand how non-trivial construction of object permanence is, we can read the late Dr. Oliver Sacks writing on his medical case studies of patients whose medical conditions caused them to experience reality in the danger way ordinary people do - The study of feral children also provides important insights into linguistic conditioning's role in our construction of reality - This area can inspire many important Deep Humanity BEing journeys relating - our habitual propensity to reify - object permanence - Shi-ne meditation and to offer us a way to penetrate our early deep conditioning of object permanence - Doing so allows us to get in touch with a pure, unconditioned, more primordial experience of reality free from layers of deep conceptualisation

    3. nyam ne-pa

      for - definition - nyam ne-pa - the state of quiet presence - the goal of Dzogchen meditation practice - going from form to emptiness - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

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    1. Tibetan terminology. Nyam literally means experiences or meditative experience and is described as intense psychophysical sensations.

      for - definition - nyam - Tibetan term for intense psychophysical meditative experience - from Medium article - Nyams I have known and loved - Alexander Vezhnevets - 2022, Apr 28

    1. Unexcelled Yoga Tantra

      for - definition - unexcelled yoga tantra - the ultimate practice of simulating clear light meditation while still alive, in the Gelupa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

    2. avidyā in Sanskrit or "ma rig pa" in Tibetan,

      for - definition - avidya (Sanskrit) or Ma Ri Pa (Tibetan) - Fundamental misunderstanding (both intellectual and affective) about the (ultimate) nature of reality itself - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

    3. What does this word "thugs dam" mean?
      • definition - Tukdam - John Dunne
        • is a word with multiple meanings (polysemy)
        • first - honorific term for samaya - Sanskrit for Tantric vows
          • second - commitment / promise
          • third - chosen deity
          • fourth - practicing any of the above
            • specifically, it could mean accomplishing the goals of Tantric practice, especially at the time of death
    1. article by Alison P Davis uh Was Written In The Cut about the great Vib shift coming and a Vibe shift is basically some kind of eventure happening in society that just changes the vibe changes the mood and it's precognitive pre- narrative

      for - definition - vibe shift - Some kind of event that changes the vibe. It is pre-cognitive and pre-narrative - Alison P Davis wrote about "Vibe Shift" in The Cut - Youtube - from The STOA - Situational Assessment - Luigi Mangione

    1. integration is what people are seeking that's why they're coming to you um they want they often people will seek me out because nothing else seems to have helped all the talk therapy all the Psychotherapy all the things that they've tried not that they are still in being influenced by the patterns that are affecting them uh so we we call this notion the integration imperative

      for - definition - integration imperative - people seek integration - talk therapy - psychotherapy has not helped - patterns still there and affecting them - Youtube - Pre and Perinatal healing happens in layers - Kate White

    1. I want to get into the Five Elements Mandala

      for - definition - spiral of the - 5 Elements Mandala - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - need to move - from linear pyramid, neoliberal logic - to trends logic - multi-dimensional - reflexive - feedbacks - intertwingled - need to know what you stand for and - what you stand against ( the dominant neoliberal culture)

    2. what we set up is not a binary of here is one side of it and here is the other. But we call this a continuum of auto shifts continuum

      for - definition - continuum of onto shift - back and forth, iterative, non-binary - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - definition - thingify - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - adjacency - onto shift - example - perception - Deep Humanity - BEing journey - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      adjacency - onto shift - example - perception - Deep Humanity - BEing journey - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - These onto shifts would be an excellent exercise for Deep Humanity BEing journeys

    3. it was so hard to get outside of the project of neoliberalism that we couldn't actually see what was possible in that Horizon three construct. So for us, we started to look at we need a just transition, plus an entire shift of ontology, ethical, epistemological, what we shorthand call auto shifts or ontological shifts

      for - definition - ontological shift - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - adjacency - Deep Humanity - can provide new vocabulary and ideas to support - the horizon 3 - ontological shift - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      adjacency - between - ontological shift to reach horizon 3 - Deep Humanity - adjacency relationship - Deep Humanity may offer a new language and vocabulary for this Horizon 3 shift ontology

    4. Bill Sharp, and it's called the Three Horizon Framework

      for - definition - Three Horizon Framework - developed by Bill Sharp - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - example - Three Horizon Framework

      example - Three Horizon Framework - horizon 1 - carbon credits - carbon capture - green new deal - green growth - reforming democracy - more humane capitalism - horizon 2 - equity and justice - decolonization - transition pathways to disrupt ideologies - formative stage - ontological - still operating in frame of modernity - still operating in material realm - horizon 3 - new ways of being, living seeing, worldviews - dearth of imagination

    5. there is a growing set of people, groups, endeavors that are really recognizing this neoliberal operating system that we're working within. And they have many different ways that they're going about this. It's a growing movement, and for our purposes here, we kind of refer to this as the just transition movement

      for - definition - just transition movement - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    6. when we analyzed the the dominant cultural operating system, because there's more than a political economy, it's a it's a, as we've said, a totalizing operating system. And we're going to call it neoliberalism

      for - definition - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - summary - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 definition - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - Neoliberalism is a totalizing, cultural operating system for modernity - It is all of these things: - a political philosophy - an economic practice - a cosmology - a wordview - an ontology - a theocracy - a religious worldview based on faith - Most of the dogmas of neoliberalism have been proven to be false, and yet it is still taught in most institutions of higher education summary - Some of the premises of neoliberalism are: - 1. humans are homo economicus - our chief concern is our selves and NOT others - Enlightenment theories - Scientism - Evolutionary theory - All our systems are designed on this false premise - 2. Hierarchy is inevitable and necessary for order. Without it, we would revert to beasts - The system embeds - Patriarchism - White Supremacy - Gender inequality - 3. The individual is the primary unit of power - together with 1) and 2), it creates inherent competition - 4. Material wealth and power is the measure of wellbeing - If you have money, you are considered a success, otherwise, you are considered a moral failure

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    1. At one level, there’s no difference. At another level that difference of care and attention does matter very much. Joko used to say that the core of our practice was to suffer intelligently. Another way of saying that is that we need to learn to desire intelligently.

      for - definition - suffer intelligently - Joko - Zen - Barry Magid - definition - desire intelligently - Joko - Zen - Barry Magid

      comment - see the paragraph prior to this one for background

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    1. glaucoma

      A disease of the eye marked by increased pressure within the eyeball that can result in damage to the optic disc and gradual loss of vision.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glaucoma


      "[...] the darkness of the nights and the greyness of the days here are associated with deterioration of vision, blindness and the slow disappearance of the world from view." (Pudney 296).

      https://shorturl.at/Qihyk

      More on Worldbuilding here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/worldbuilding/

    1. for - definition - Doom loop - definition - derailment risk

      Summary - An informative article that shows how climate crisis is invisibly contributing to increasing precarity in indirect ways that are not noticed by those impacted by it. - This creates a positive feedback loop of diverting resources to deal with - the symptoms instead of - the root cause.

  6. Nov 2024
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    1. cosmo-localization, i.e. the combination of interconnected local commons with global (‘cosmic’) digitally enhanced cooperation, may be superlinear, and thus, exactly what is needed to ‘inflate’ the commons.

      for - definition inflating the commons - Geoffrey West - superlinear relationship - of cosmolocalization - via digital cooperation - Michel Bauwens - adjacency relationship - inflating the commons - indyweb

      adjacency - between - inflating the commons - indyweb - adjacency relationship - Indyweb could be one way to inflate the commons by weaving together cosmolocal groups around the group into a mycelial network

    1. before you go anywhere near globalization you've got to firstly to Define what it is

      for - definition - globalization - Yanis Varoufakis

      definition - globalization - Yanis Varoufakis - globalization does NOT mean global trade. That is always a good thing - globalization is the total lack of regulation of financial power, allowing money to rule the world - power shifts from land owners to factory owners

    1. first second third fourth you can look at those as perspectives

      for - definition - first person to eightth person perspectives - John Churchill

      definition - first person to eighth person perspective - John Churchill - The different perspectives are: - first person - the physical body - second person - the emotional body - third person - the mental body - fourth - the systems perspective - contextual - interconnected field - fifth to seventh - holonic consciousness - synchronized to the planetary field itself - Like a Buddha, bodhisattva or Christ - As you unfold, your unfolding changes the planetary field itself

    2. everything is part of a lar system right now that begins to open up into the realm of soul and what do we mean by Soul

      for - definition - soul - John Churchill

      definition - soul - John Churchill - Churchill defines soul to mean the same thing as the Buddhist concept of emptiness - This is quite a specific interpretation of soul from a Buddhist perspective - He defines it as having three dimensions: - Compassion - EMBODIED understanding that everything is interconnected and we are not separate from anything else - In Buddhism, this is often also called: - non-conceptual valid cognition (intuition) - interdependent origination

      question - what are the 2nd and 3rd features of the Soul? - John Churchill - He seems to only discuss the first and the interviewer forgets to return to the 2nd and 3rd

    3. first we've got to understand the difference between actual psychological infrastructure please and states of Consciousness so because for for our listeners states are cheap traits are expensive

      for - definition - psychological infrastructure - John Churchill - definition - state of consciousness - John Churchill - comparison - psychological infrastructure vs state of consciousness - John Churchill - quote - states (of consciousness) are cheap, traits ( of psychological infrastructure) are expensive - John Churchill

    1. Commitment Pooling

      for - definition - Commitment pooling

      definition - Commitment pooling - a protocol practiced in indigenous communities that - builds on traditional mutual service practices to create equitable and collaborative economic systems. - This protocol demonstrates how commitments can be - pooled, - valued and - exchanged, - fostering long-term reciprocity across a network of communities. - By valuing and exchanging commitments, - communities engage in a form of reciprocity that - might not resemble direct transactional economies but - is equally significant. - This system allows for - the fulfillment is communal needs - through coordinated effort

  8. Oct 2024
    1. adaptive cycle

      for - definition - adaptive cycle - Crawford Stanley Holling - IIASA

      definition - adaptive cycle - Crawford Stanley Holling - IIASA - Predator-prey dynamics across a large variety of species, follow a recursive 'adaptive cycle' consisting of: - front loop stage - growth and accumulation - back loop stage - rapid reorganization with increased stability due to dependency on a limited number of conditions leading to reduced resiliency and either - renewal or - collapse <br /> - This is a characteristic of an ecosystem of many species coexisting together

    2. Arbib and Seba explain this by categorising human civilisation into two fundamentally intertwined complexes: the production system, encompassing all the foundational systems by which we meet fundamental material needs across energy, transport, food and materials (corresponding to ‘hardware’); and the organising system, encompassing how the former systems are governed, regulated and managed by society through economic, political, military, cultural and ideological structures and values (corresponding to ‘software’)

      for - definition - production system ('hardware') - and organizing system ('software') - Arbib and Seba

      definition Arbib and Seba - human civilization can be broken down into the interaction between two complimentary systems - the production system - by which we meet fundamamental material needs for food, energy, transportation, water, materials - also called 'hardware' - the organizing system - by which how the production system is governed and managed and includes the economy, polity, security, culture, ideology and values - also called 'software'

      comment - A transformation is required in both the hardware and the software to mitigate the worst impacts of our current polycrisis

    3. constructal law

      for - definition - constructal law - Adrian Bejan - to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature

      to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature - https://hyp.is/ZRIXfo76Ee-5yZdY2quRaQ/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2871904/ - youtube explainer video - constructal theory - flow - Adrian Bejan - https://hyp.is/R7V4Yo79Ee-52gO6UYAaYQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEBTPee9ZM

    4. To survive, living systems need to process information from their environment so they can predict environmental conditions. They then translate this information into organising their material structures to maximise the efficiency with which they extract and dissipate energy.

      for - question - entropy definition of life - investigate further - entropy definition of life

      question - I'm not fully appreciating his explanation. This requires further investigation - This physical explanation of life appears to be aimed at showing that the hardware and software aspects of life work together to dissipate physical energy - Is he saying that life's purpose is to accelerate the heat death of the universe?

    5. The ‘hardware’ is a configuration of matter which harnesses energy from its environment with surprising efficiency and dissipates it as waste back into the environment.

      for - definition- hardware - software - Paul Davies

      definition - hardware - software - Paul Davies - In the context of life, - hardware - configuration of matter which harnesses energy from its environment - software - complex information sturctures by which configurations of matter and energy are organized and instructed to self-reproduce

    1. Who were the Physiocrats?

      for - definition - physiocrats - Steve Keen - economy - history - economic flow as biomimicry of body's circulation system

      definition - physiocrat - During the 18th and 19th century, a group of mostly French "economists" led by Francois Quesnay, physician to the King of France at the time, performed some of the first autopsies of the time. - Autopsies were banned for the longest time for religious reasons - When Quesnay performed autopsies, he discovered networks of tubes in the circulation system and this led him to surmise a network of circulation in another field, economics - Quesnay advised the king, hence the name physiocrat - So modern economics has its roots in biology - it was a case of biomimicry!

    1. Feature: A feature is a significant piece of functionality that delivers value to the user. It usually includes several user stories or backlog items. A feature might take one or more sprints to complete.