The Wealth of People

Exploring Implications for Work and Identity in the Digital Environment.

Monday, March 19, 2012

the matter and anti-matter of information

I've just finished reading a wonderful article by David Hunter Tow- Director of The Future of Life Research Centre -  The Future of Life - Life's Function in the Universe I wonder if Tow has read Kauffman (I know I seem to be obsessed with Kauffman these day, but...) the views that are expressed in Tow's article are consistent and maybe a logical extension of them. Below I use italics to indicate where I have quoted from Tow's article. Before...

Friday, March 9, 2012

Science and Mythos - Toward a New Mythos

 I would like to thank my colleague Paul for the conversation that enacted this moment of social thinking. I shared with Paul, the new papers by Stuart Kauffman Answering Descartes: Beyond Turing and No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere Paul replied very quickly on receiving the papers but before he had read them. He like I is deeply interested in the topics of evolution and complexity. He is a real...

Friday, March 2, 2012

A conversation about dematerialization

I'd like to thank my friends Denis Poussart and Amanda Parr for the conversations that I've embedded in this post. Conversation is surely the act of social thinking. In a recent post by the Rational Optimist - Dematerialising and deflating the future http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/dematerialising-and-deflating-future?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter  In the blog Matt Ridley states: Dematerialization is occurring with...