Edge: WHEN WE CANNOT PREDICT - An EDGE Special Event

Edge: WHEN WE CANNOT PREDICT - An EDGE Special Event

Bruce Parker, Kevin Kelly, Mary Catherine Bateson, Douglas Kenrick,Douglas Rushkoff, Roger Schank, Ed Regis, Gregory Paul, Eiko Ikegami,Rodney Brooks, J. Doyne Farmer, James J. O'Donnell

Symbiosis

"Thus former parasites have to become symbionts; the excesses they committed against their hosts put the parasites in mortal danger, for dead host can no longer feed or house them"

"This is history's bifurcation: either death or symbiosis." Michel Serres

nature

"Our Culture abhors the world.
Yet quicksand is swallowing the duelists; the river is threatening the fighter: earth, waters, and climate, the mute world, the voiceless things once placed as a decor surrounding the usual spectacles, all those things that never interested anyone, from now own thrust themselves brutally and without warning into our schemes and maneuvers. They burst in our culture, which had never formed anything but a local, vagues, and cosmetic idea of them: nature.
what was once local -- this river, that swamp -- is now global: Planet Earth."
Michel Serres, The Natural Contract, p.3

The Evolution of Economic Wealth and Innovation

Stuart Kauffman

Τί είναι η Φιλοσοφία; | Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?

Entretien avec Félix Guattari 1 by DocMango

George Veltsos interviews Felix Guattari on Greek Television in 1991.
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"Υπάρχει πάντα ένα μικρό περιθώριο(margin), μια δυνατότητα (possibility). Μέσα στον Πανεπιστημιακό χώρο έχετε μερικούς φίλους, έχετε τη δυνατότητα να δημιουργήσετε έναν πυρήνα που πιθανόν να βρει απήχηση και ανταπόκριση. Αυτές οι τοπικές, μικροπολιτικές διαστάσεις ίσως να επηρεάσουν μεγάλα φαινόμενα μοριακής (molecular) μετάλλαξης αφού τελικά το τοπικό επικοινωνεί τώρα με το πλανητικό."

"Σήμερα ποιος είναι ο δημιουργός ιδεών; Δεν είναι οι διανοούμενοι αρχηγοί μ' ένα μεγάλο 'Α'. Είναι μη-διανοητικές κατατάξεις, είναι γεωπολιτικές ευαισθησιακές (sensibility) μεταλλάξεις. Είναι οι ικανότητα να δεις τον κόσμο όπως εξελίσσεται... Αυτό σημαίνει σήμερα να είσαι δημιουργός ιδεών (concept)."

The Iokasti hypothesis

"life processes have destabilizing effects, rather than homeostatic ones, upon the environment that they rely upon for survival" Shaviro. Symbiosis leads not to homeostasic whole...

Iokasti sits nicely as mother model between Gaia and Medea to express the contingent and unexpected affects of symbiotic relations. By avoiding the extremity of the nice and caring  Lovelock's hypothesis (Gaia) as well as Ward's (Medea) evil and destructive, Iokasti hypothesis focuses on relations of exteriority with no a priori positive or negative overtone.

Common Sense and the orthodox image of thought

"Many people have an interest in saying that everybody know "this", that everybody recognises this , or that nobody can deny it. ( They triumph easily so long as no surly interlocutor appears to reply that he does not wish to be represented, and that he denies or does not recognize those who speak in his name.)" DR p.166


the most general form of representation is thus found in the element of common sense understood as an upright nature and a good will. (Εύδοξος και ορθόδοξος). p.166


In this sense, conceptual philosophical thought has as its implicit presupposition a pre-philosophical and natural image of thought, borrowed from the pure element of common sense. According to this image, thought has an affinity with the true; it formally possesses the true and materially wants the true. p.167