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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 […]

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

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

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

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

Roger F Malina brainstorm Aug 19 2024 This morning Swati Anwesha walked into our ArtSciLab; she is a PhD student in literature, and originally from India. When we started working together, she was working on a novel, pretending to be “Charles Dickens”; It was to be a new “tale of two cities’. She had lived

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

Roger F Malina Aug 17 2024 Context On August 16, 2024, Dennis Kratz bumped into Roger F. Malina in a UTDallas ATEC hallway in the Edith O’Donnell Center; a discussion ensued. Kratz is Director of the Center for Asia Studies at UTD. He mentioned that the number of Asian students in our JSOM business school

Aug 13 2024 I write this update as we prepare to remember Tom Linehan who died recently. He was part of a group of friends of friends that changed history for the better. The only reason i have now an endowed chair for the next 6 years at UTdallas is due to Tom Causality is

Perspectives on Sensory History Series, Penn State University Press 2023 Reviewed by : Roger F. Malina, Aug 11 2024 looking out a window In the common room of the Range at Tenison Park Golf Course, Texas Let me begin the words in the index that I circled: Wampum, Air (for Anu), Aesth-ethics, acoustemology, Rudolf Arnheim,