[Fis] Abstract--Electronic Symbiosis—Lessons from Bacteria

Sun Feb 14 02:06:38 CET 2021

i've submitted the following abstract to wolfgang hofkirchner for his digital humanism section of the conference:

Electronic Symbiosis—Lessons from BacteriaHoward Bloomhowlbloom at aol.comAuthor, The Lucifer Principle: a Scientific Expedition into the Forces of HistoryChairman, The Howard Bloom InstituteFounder and co-chair, The Asian Space Technology SummitFormer Visiting Scholar, Graduate Psychology Department, New York UniversityFormer Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute, Meriden, Connecticut
Some say that we should not let humanity’s new electronic frontiers reshape us. But every time technology has reshaped us, it has upgraded us. To see how synergies with electronic systems like artificial intelligence can give humanity and humanism new powers, look at how bacteria have gained new abilities over the last billion years. They could have anticipated being annihilated by the new multicellulars and tried to stop multicellular formation. But the multicellulars did not wipe out their single-celled forebears. Far from it. They worked out deals with the multi-cellulars. And those cooperative arrangements gave both the microbes and the multi-cellular beasts whole new powers, whole new ways to make a living. Look, for example, at the cockroaches that first showed up on the planet 320 million years ago. For 69 million years, the cockroaches were limited to easily digestible food. But there was hard stuff all around them bursting with nourishment. That oh, too solid stuff was the tree. And there was no way that the digestive system of cockroaches could turn bark and wood into tasty treats. Then came over 33 species of bacteria and set up shop in the cockroach’s guts. Species like Paenibacillus lactis, Lysinibacillusmacrolides, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.[i]  These microbial wonders could eat cellulose, the hard stuff that had previously made wood indigestible. What’s more, the cellulose eaters could defecate material that was toast with butter and jam to the cockroaches, the perfect food-- sugars and short-chain fatty acids. In exchange, the microbes used cockroaches as their transport and chewing machines. The cockroaches empowered by their bacterial colonists to eat trees took off on an evolutionary path of their own. Today we call them termites. And there are 2,000 species of them. Which means that once the lowly cockroach allowed cellulose-eating bacteria and flagellates to turn its innards into a microbial dining hall, the newly empowered cockroaches found 2,000 new ways to make a living. So, no, multicellular beings did not wipe out their single-celled progenitors. They gave them a rich new home. And they gavet he unicellulars breathtaking new abilities. If all goes well, that will be the relationship of AI and humankind—symbiosis. Mutual empowerment.

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From: Karl Javorszky <karl.javorszky at gmail.com>
To: 钟义信 <zyx at bupt.edu.cn>
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Please resend the 2 papers, as my office software says it doesn't recognize the file format used.Thanks Karl 

钟义信 <zyx at bupt.edu.cn> schrieb am Sa., 13. Feb. 2021, 03:29:

Dear Pedro,
Please accept my warm greetings to you for the outstanding contributions you made to IS4SI during the past years and also for the Chinese new year..
Here I would send you two documents of the Calls, see attachment, as some progresses made by China Chapter for the preparations for IS4SI World Summit-2021. I would be very grateful if you could help us by distributing the Calls to FISers.
My best regards,
Yixin  ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------发件人: "Pedro"<pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>;发送时间: 2021年2月13日(星期六) 凌晨5:43收件人: "fis"<fis at listas.unizar.es>; 主题: [Fis] New Year in China Dear FIS Colleagues,

With the occasion of the Chinese New Year, let me express our collective 
greetings and best wishes to the FISers there. We badly need good news, 
and at least the celebrations of a New Year bring us some sense of hope 
and forbearance in front of the present difficulties. Probably, when all 
of this recedes, we will be able to make fine discussions about social 
resilience...

All the best

--Pedro

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Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group

pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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__________________________Howard BloomHowardbloom.nettrailer for BRIC-TV's 66-minute film,The Grand Unified Theory of Howard Bloom,  https://youtu.be/rGkOkChazUQ Best Picture, Science Design Film Festival. Best Documentary Feature, Not Film Festival, Italy. Now available  on Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft, Vimeo, Vudu, and Fandango.
Author of: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"-The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"-The New Yorker),The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("A tremendously enjoyable book." James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic),  The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates ("Bloom's argument will rock your world." Barbara Ehrenreich),How I Accidentally Started the Sixties (“Wow! Whew! Wild! Wonderful!” Timothy Leary),The Mohammed Code (“A terrifying book…the best book I’ve read on Islam.” David Swindle, PJ Media), andEinstein, Michael Jackson & Me: a Search  for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock & Roll ("Amazing. The writing is revelatory." Freddy DeMann, manager of Michael Jackson and Madonna), Best Book of 2020, New York Weekly Times.A Quartz Magazine ProFormer Visiting Scholar, Graduate Psychology Department, New York University, Former Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute; Current Kepler Space Institute Senior Scholar.Founder: International Paleopsychology Project. Founder, Space Development Steering Committee.  Member Of Board Of Governors, National Space Society. Founding Board Member: Epic of Evolution Society. Founding Board Member, The Darwin Project.
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