Roger Malina

Leaving Traces: Impact of The Senex phenomenon on the Publishing Industries Leonardo Publications as a case study.

9/9/2024 The human global population is getting older, on average. I am involved in a center for emergence studies, and we have just published an article on what we are calling The Senex. I have appended the draft article at the end of this blog. But the main point is that the proportion of people

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Senexoptimism: A Neuroscience and Humanities of how motivation evolves for the better with age and Experience

9/7/2024 Roger F. Malina in connection with the C4ES team. A group of us is trying to set up a Center for the Study of Emergence within the ArtSciLab (C4ES) at the University of Texas at Dallas https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/tag/center-for-emergence-studies TOC: a.Intro B: Birth rate do longer matches death rate C: Number of people are increasing faster

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From: Roger F MalinaTo Ground Works Village Editorial Team and the on line AI bots

Groundworks as a Pool in a Village where growing molds is crucial Groundworks is a publication of A2RU: https://a2ru.org/groundworks/ I give my feedback to the detailed specifics to Veronika Stranich’s Summary separately (ask me if you want to see it) However, My comments reflect 40 years of “wasted” time volunteering in academic publishing for Leonardo

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Leaving a Trace for the emerging different ArtSciLab and the proposed Center for Emergence Studies: Creative Disturbance ReSurgence

Roger F Malina Aug 23 2024 The sentences in this text have been adopted from page 63 and 64 of Steven Johnson’s book “Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software” 2001 Scribner publisers. No Ai has been used in this version, yet (except for alerts for misspellings). “In computer simulations of slime

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The Senex

ColleaguesThis is a DRAFT article for you to READ but no do anything else with it.If you do want to do something ( share/contribute/etc) contact me atrmalina@alum.mit.eduWe have submitted this for publication to the Atheneum journal- we willDelete this blog post if the article is accepted for publicationRoger F Malina

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C4ES Library: Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software

By Steven Johnson, 2001, Scribner Review by Roger F Malina Recommended by: Fred Turner, Roger Malina and add your name This book, from 2001, provides a broad outline of the topic of emergence in both social and physical systems. Drawing on evolutionary theory, urban studies, neuroscience and computer games ,it’s a good beginning of 21st

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