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<DIV>good commentary, pedro.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>where do compassion and love--the archangel principle--fit into
the lucifer principle? and why have groups progressed in
complexity since the end of the last ice age eleven thousand years ago?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>to form a superorganism, a cohesive group, you need huge amounts of
collaboration and cooperation. love is one cohesive force, one bonding
element, one form of social glue. justice is another. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>justice resolves differences in the group without violence. justice
is at work in chimpanzee societies, where new leaders are required to uphold the
weak and the downtrodden and to settle disputes. if a new leader doesn't
understand this imperative and is a mere bully, the females in the group oust
him from power.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>justice is at work in !Kung San societies, where the days are devoted to
hunting and gathering and the nights are devoted to story telling and dispute
resolution.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>but where does the increasing complexity of human societies come
from? humans are drawn to the sight of other humans. when architects
in the 1960s tried to fashion contemplative spaces around office buildings so
the buildings' inhabitants could get a touch of calm during lunch hours,
it didn't work. the buildings' workers shunned the contemplative spots and
sat on the buildings' outdoor steps. why? to watch the sight of
other people going by on the sidewalk.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>we love the sight of others. and the more others, the better.
from that impulse came cities. from that impulse came smartphones and
facebook.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>but guess what? the more communication and the more information
exchange, the more collaboration. and the richer and more long-distance
that collaboration becomes. the more global.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>the more we communicate, the more group iq we add to the global
brain. (the topic of my second book, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass
Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>one more thing. nature seems to have an inexorable itch for
novelty. and we, nature's children, are novelty hunters too. from
our itch for novelty comes, guess what? innovation.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>put innovation and increasing group size together and you get a long-term
march forward, a march in which humans do the cosmos' work--helping her reinvent
herself. helping her lift herself up the staircase of shock and
creativity. the staircase of complexity. the staircase of the
supersized surprise.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>with warmth and oomph--howard</DIV>
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<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 1/5/2016 12:23:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es writes:</DIV>
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face=Verdana>Dear Howard and Colleagues,</FONT>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Many
thanks for your contribution! This is the third time we have a New Year
Lecture, and the first one devoted to humanities. Well, to the "inhumanities"
should I say, as what you have depicted succinctly with the Lucifer Principle
describes the main evil that has been torturing human history. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>There are matters of
detail to comment (as previous messages have already pointed out), but also of
general perspective. First about the apparent simplicity. The LP scheme looks
simple, too simple... but </FONT>at the <FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>same time it may be powerful, really powerful in explanatory
capabilities. I really do not particularly like any of the three components
involved (super-organism, pecking order,
meme/group-identity),</FONT></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">and do not
trust much about their respective "scientificity", </SPAN><FONT size=2
face=Verdana>but their combination is chilling. It reminds some of the Marxian
strictures about class </FONT><FONT face=Verdana>struggle, partially
right but missing and transposing essential ingredients of human life.
Presumably some more objectivity i</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>n this case
--but also missing some counterpart, say the "Archangel Principle", that has
confronted and </FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" size=2
face=Verdana>resisted the solvent forces of the Luciferian complex and, in the
long trend, supported the complexity growth of societies and
improved </FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"
face=Verdana>their</FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" size=2
face=Verdana> structural decency. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+0><FONT size=2>With only the action of LP, history would not
go beyond barbaric empires briefly raising from a mosaic of ever
fighting tribes... That's plausible, and some parties may remind Tom
Stonier in this list, late 90's I think, on warfare as part of the adaption
scenario of human evolution. Then, what could be the AP "bright forces" of
history that have counteracted LP? The </FONT>Pantheon<FONT
size=2> of politheistic cultures could give a hint... I venture to
single out </FONT></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">three components of AP:
knowledge, justice, and the third... what about
love/compassion? </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana" size=2
face=Tahoma>Anyhow, both the details of your LP scheme and the general canvas
of human history need an informational perspective, we completely agree. And
it is interesting that the whole trinity of LP have biological/informational
origins; but disentangling the info physics from the info bios has not been
done yet (and so your final comment is </FONT><FONT face=Verdana>well
intended</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><FONT face=Verdana> but
still </FONT>confusing in my view)<FONT face=Verdana>. Let me ad, looking
both at the achievements of our times and at the open intractable conflicts,
that it is amazing the absence of a real international system of
justice... </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Discussing on
justice, on its capability to social problem solving and to quench the LP
permanent hunger, might not be a bad idea.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><FONT face=Verdana>Best wishes to
all for the New Year.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><FONT
face=Verdana>--Pedro</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Tahoma><B>De:</B> Fis [fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es] en nombre de
HowlBloom@aol.com [HowlBloom@aol.com]<BR><B>Enviado el:</B> lunes, 04 de enero
de 2016 6:45<BR><B>Para:</B> fis@listas.unizar.es<BR><B>Asunto:</B> [Fis]
January Lecture--Information and the Forces of History<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>The Force of History--Howard Bloom</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">In 1995, I published my first
book, The Lucifer Principle: a Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of
history.<SPAN> </SPAN>It sold roughly 140,000 copies worldwide and is
still selling.<SPAN> </SPAN>Some people call it their Bible.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Others say that it was the book that predicted 9/11.<SPAN>
</SPAN>And less than two months ago, on November 13, 2015, some current
readers said it was the book that explained ISIS’ attacks on
Paris.<SPAN> </SPAN>Why?<SPAN> </SPAN>What are the forces of
history?<SPAN> </SPAN>And what do they have to do with information
science?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">The Lucifer Principle uses
evolutionary biology, group selection, neurobiology, immunology, microbiology,
computer science, animal behavior, and anthropology to probe mass passions,
the passions that have powered historical movements from the unification of
China in 221 BC and the start of the Roman<SPAN> </SPAN>Empire in 201 BC
<SPAN> </SPAN>to the rise of the Empire of Islam in 634 AD and that
empire’s modern manifestations, the Islamic Revolutionary Republic of Iran and
ISIS, the Islamic State, a group intent on establishing a global
caliphate.<SPAN> </SPAN>The Lucifer Principle concludes that the
passions that swirl, swizzle, and twirl history’s currents are a secular
trinity.<SPAN> </SPAN>What are that trinity’s three
components?<SPAN> </SPAN>The superorganism, the pecking order, and
ideas.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">What’s a
superorganism?<SPAN> </SPAN>Your body is an organism. But it’s also a
massive social gathering. <SPAN> </SPAN>It’s composed of a hundred
trillion cells.<SPAN> </SPAN>Each of those cells is capable of living on
its own.<SPAN> </SPAN>Yet your body survives thanks to the existence of
a collective identity—a you.<SPAN> </SPAN>In 1911,<A
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Harvard biologist William Morton Wheeler noticed that ant colonies pull off
the same trick.<SPAN> </SPAN>From 20,000 to 36 million ants work
together to create an emergent property, a collective identity, the identity
of a community, a society, a colony, or a supercolony.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Wheeler observed how the colony behaved as if it were a single
organism.<SPAN> </SPAN>He called the result a “superorganism.”<A
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">Meanwhile in roughly 1900,
when he was still a child, Norway’s Thorleif Schjelderup Ebbe got into a
strange habit: counting the number of pecks the chickens in his family’s flock
landed on each other and who pecked whom.<SPAN> </SPAN>By the time he
was ready to write his PhD dissertation in 1918, Ebbe had close to 20 years of
data.<SPAN> </SPAN>And that data demonstrated something
strange.<SPAN> </SPAN>Chickens in a barnyard are not
egalitarian.<SPAN> </SPAN>They have a strict hierarchy.<SPAN>
</SPAN>At the top is a chicken who gets special privileges.<SPAN>
</SPAN>All others step aside when she goes to the trough.<SPAN>
</SPAN>She is the first to eat.<SPAN> </SPAN>And she can peck any other
chicken in the group.<SPAN> </SPAN>Then comes chicken number
two.<SPAN> </SPAN>She is the second to eat.<SPAN> </SPAN>And she
can peck anyone in the flock with one notable exception.<SPAN>
</SPAN>She cannot peck the top chicken.<SPAN> </SPAN>Then comes chicken
number three, chicken number four, and so on.<SPAN> </SPAN>Each one
cannot peck the chickens above her on the social ladder.<SPAN>
</SPAN>But each has free rein to peck the chickens below.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Finally, there’s the bottom chicken, a chicken everyone is free to peck
but who is free to peck no one.<SPAN> </SPAN>Ebbe called this a “peck
order,” a pecking order, a dominance hierarchy.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">And in 1976, Oxford
evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined two new terms.<A
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</SPAN>He observed that biological life, all of it from bacteria to bathing
beauties, depends on the evolution<SPAN> </SPAN>of what Dawkins called
“replicators,” molecules that can make copies of themselves. Then Dawkins
spotted a newer kind of replicator at work.<SPAN> </SPAN>The first
biological replicators—genes--did their thing in primordial
puddles.<SPAN> </SPAN>The new replicator worked in a puddle of a
radically different kind—the puddle of the human mind.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Dawkins observed that we see replicators at work when our mind fixates
on a song we hate and plays it over and over again, no matter how vigorously
we wish it away. That song is using our mind to make more copies of itself.
<SPAN> </SPAN>But the most important replicators in the soup of the human
mind are not pop songs, they’re ideas.<SPAN> </SPAN>Dawkins called these
mind-based replicators “memes.”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">Superorganism, the pecking
order, and ideas—memes--that’s the holy trinity of The Lucifer
Principle.<SPAN> </SPAN>That’s the holy trinity that drives the forces
of history.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">Here’s how it
works.<SPAN> </SPAN>Social groups compete.<SPAN> </SPAN>They
battle for pecking order position in a hierarchy of groups.<SPAN>
</SPAN>They strive to be at the top of that hierarchy and to avoid the fate of
the chicken at the bottom.<SPAN> </SPAN>What’s the main thing over which
groups compete?<SPAN> </SPAN>It’s a badge of group
membership.<SPAN> </SPAN>A badge of what molecular biologist Luis
Villarreal and philosopher Guenther Witzany call “group identity.”<A
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</SPAN>That badge?<SPAN> </SPAN>A cluster of memes. A knot of
replicators that live in a sea of minds.<SPAN> </SPAN>The Babylonians
competed with the Assyrians and the Medes.<SPAN> </SPAN>They competed
using different languages.<SPAN> </SPAN>They competed using different
ideas of what clothes to wear, what was right and wrong, and, most important,
what gods to worship.<A
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</SPAN>The eight states that made war in China in from 475 BC to 221 BC also
had competing languages, religions, and philosophies.<SPAN> </SPAN>Rome
set itself against the Persian Empire using the same tools of group identity:
a different language, a different clothing style, a different way of worship,
and a different pantheon of gods-- different ideas.<SPAN> </SPAN>And
today militant<SPAN> </SPAN>Islam—in the form of the Islamic State and
what’s left of al Qaeda--is pitting itself against the West, Russia, and China
using the ideas<SPAN> </SPAN>of Islam.<SPAN> </SPAN>Using the
words and deeds of Mohammed, words and deeds that are still making copies of
themselves in new minds 1,384 years after Mohammed’s death.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">Pecking order competitions
between groups, pecking order competitions based on ideas, are the meat and
potatoes of the headlines.<SPAN> </SPAN>They are the forces of
history.</P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Where does information come
into this?<SPAN> </SPAN>Everywhere.<SPAN> </SPAN>A fact that we
shall have to discuss.<SPAN> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%'>Why?<SPAN>
</SPAN>Because communication, sociality, and information exchange are at the
very heart of this cosmos.<SPAN> </SPAN>So are competition and
hierarchy.<SPAN> </SPAN>Not to mention the ancestor of
superorganism-ness, the foremother of group identity—the cosmos’ obsession
with mobs, gangs, flocks, and massively integrated social entities.
<SPAN> </SPAN>Social entities that range from protons, atoms, galaxies,
stars, planets and moons to galaxy superclusters.<SPAN> </SPAN>What do
all of these things have in common? <SPAN> </SPAN>What do they
share with megamolecules, DNA, cells, and bacterial colonies, not to mention
ants, nations, and ISIS? <SPAN> </SPAN>Competition, hierarchy, and group
identity.<SPAN> </SPAN>Superorganism, pecking order, and ideas—the holy
trinity of the<SPAN> </SPAN>Lucifer Principle.<SPAN> </SPAN>And
guess what else they share?<SPAN> </SPAN>Information!</SPAN><FONT size=3
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Jürgen Tautz, The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism, Berlin:
Springer, 2008, p. 3,.</P></DIV>
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William Morton Wheeler, The Termitodoxa, Or Biology And Society, The
Scientific Monthly, February, 1920.</P></DIV>
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Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1976.</P></DIV>
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Luis P. Villarreal, <SPAN> </SPAN>Origin of Group Identity: Viruses,
Addiction and Cooperation, <SPAN> </SPAN>New York: Springer,
2009.</P></DIV>
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For more on the battle of the gods in Mesopotamia, see Howard Bloom, The God
Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books,
2016.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face="Century Gothic">____________<BR>Howard
Bloom<BR>Author of: <I>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the
Forces of History</I> ("mesmerizing"-<I>The Washington Post</I>),<BR><I>Global
Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century</I>
("reassuring and sobering"-<I>The New Yorker)</I>,<BR><I>The Genius of the
Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism</I> ("A tremendously enjoyable book."
James Fallows, National Correspondent, <I>The Atlantic</I>),<BR><I>The God
Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates</I> ("Bloom's argument will rock your
world." Barbara Ehrenreich),<BR><I>How I Accidentally Started the Sixties</I>
("Wow! Whew! Wild!<BR>Wonderful!" Timothy Leary), and<BR><I>The Mohammed
Code</I> ("A terrifying book…the best book I've read on Islam." David
Swindle,<I> PJ Media</I>).<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>Former Core Faculty
Member, The Graduate Institute; Former Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology
Department, New York University.<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology
Project; Founder, Space Development Steering Committee; Founder: The Group
Selection Squad; Founding Board Member: Epic of Evolution Society; Founding
Board Member, The Darwin Project; Founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab;
member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement
of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science,
Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human
Ethology, Scientific Advisory Board Member, Lifeboat Foundation; Editorial
Board Member, Journal of Space Philosophy; Board member and member of Board of
Governors, National Space Society.</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2
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