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<DIV>If we could get Eshel on our panel at HBES, it would be terrific. I
can go after him once you get at OK from HBES on moving forward.</DIV>
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<DIV>Make scale-invariance the topic, and I suspect we'll pull some very, very
interesting insights from Eshel. Howard</DIV>
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<DIV>ps in Bloomspeak, scale invariance is reflected in "Ur patterns", basic
patterns that are parts of the "deep structure" of the cosmos and that show up
on level after level of emergence. It's the persistence of these patterns
that makes it possible for humans to use poetry, religion, metaphor, and
math to model the world at levels from the microscopic to the galactic.
These Ur patterns can be captured in math, metaphor, and in metaphoric systems
like poetry, religion, and science. Why? Because like other forms of
emergence, symbolic systems used by humans carry those Ur patterns within
them. Human symbolic systems share something in common with bacteria, food
plants, and the stars. All are descendents of the basic patterns with
which the universe kicked itself into being. All are children of the
big bang. And it's the big bang's "genome", its underlying rules, its Ur
patterns that show up over and over again in stair-step after stair-step of
evolution.</DIV>
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<DIV>The big bang's underlying rules are, in fact, the "deep structures" implied
by Noam Chomsky's use of the term. Howard</DIV>
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<DIV>ps I owe the use of the term "deep structures" to Pavel Kurakin, who
demonstrated the relevance of Chomsky's phrase in our joint paper, <SPAN
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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>Recent 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: Institute for Accelerating Change ; 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></FONT></BODY></HTML>