Nicholas Christakis on Slime Molds: How Amoebas Form Social Networks
It turns out we're not the only species that assembles ourselves into networks, says sociologist Nicholas Christakis. Consider the slime mold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce on Biological & Conscious Growth
95% of all learning and memory takes place beneath conscious awareness. Only 5% of learning results from all of our teaching and training of our children. We’re not aware of 95% of what the child is picking up from us. AND. We put children into a conflict by demanding them to be who we want them to be, while subconsciously teaching them to be who we are—the complete opposite of what we’re demanding.
The Evolution of setting a standard and balanced business model
Opinion: (Director of Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
“If with the help of the business press, society changes criteria for business success, the business culture in the country will change.
I summon the business press to create the following alternative ratings, which will help achieve this goal: a social company rating, a social magnate rating, honest consumer treatment rating, decent work load rating, contribution to environmental control rating, and production of socially profitable goods rating for companies or social magnates.
We should consider the income of a magnate who has made his wealth on building hospitals and safe living in the country, even if he did this for the purpose of making a profit.
Property owners will be unable to remain indifferent to these ratings. The desire to complete, be successful, and earn social acceptance is evolutionary. It exists among people. If we are able to redirect this desire to the right direction, even the most cynical magnates will turn into social magnates, and instead of competing on our backs, they will compete for our well-being."
IMF’s Lagarde: Europe Crisis ‘Escalating’
Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund said that if countries don’t work together, the world will face a situation similar to the 1930s, before the world slid into World War II.
Here's more from her words:
There is no economy in the world... that will be immune to the crisis that we see not only unfolding, but escalating at a point where everybody would actually have to focus on what it can do.
The risk from an economic point of view is that of retraction, rising protectionism, isolation. This is exactly the description of what happened in the ‘30s and what followed is not something we are looking forward to.
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