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<DIV>If you get a chance, take a gander at this:</DIV>
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<DIV>It's my article on "The Xerox Effect" in PhysicaPlus, the succulently-designed online publication of the Israeli Physical Society--the Israeli society of physicists.</DIV>
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<DIV>"The Xerox Effect" tells the story of the first ten billion years of cosmic history--the ten billion years before life began. It argues that this universe has been seized by Darwinian evolution ever since its first microsecond of existence. If you didn't fit, you died. </DIV>
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<DIV>If you DID fit you did things we think of as uniquely human. You socialized. Then you either dominated, subordinated, or were swallowed and digested by the metabolic machinery of a sun or a black hole. </DIV>
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<DIV>You followed Michael Waller's evolutionary dictum: "dominate, subordinate, or die". Actually the Waller Law may need an amendment: "dominate, subordinate, transform, or die".</DIV>
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<DIV>If you agree or disagree with the article, please comment on it in the discussion forum: <A href="http://physicaplus.org.il/forum_article_eng.html">http://physicaplus.org.il/forum_article_eng.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>If PhysicaPlus sees that this article generates online activity, it will open itself to yet more articles taking big-picture points of view. </DIV>
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<DIV>All thanks--Howard</DIV>
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<DIV>By the way, if you can figure out how the discussion forum works, by all means let me know</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; 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; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>