General Semantics is perhaps best classified as a personal growth system providing tools to help us integrate with our advanced symbolic and technological environment through updated understanding and use of the methods and findings of science.

General Semantics - names a discipline based on learning and using the scientific method in our daily lives in the context of a classification system that distinguishes among plants, animals, and humans using the dimensions of energy, distance, and time. As any discipline does, it has its beliefs, values, ethics, and behavioral prescriptions. 

2013-01-30

I'm back!

I think I'm catching up faster than my life expectancy is increasing, so I will have to begin prioritizing.

It's time to take another look at "consciousness", with organism-in-the-environment-as-a-whole as a perspective.  Begin with my The Philosophy of Mobile Life - simple stimulus-response level.
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  1. diogenes23 September, 2013 13:52

    Recent developments in biology have expanded on and increased our understanding of "quorum sensing" in bacteria. Check out communication by bacteria as explained in simple terms, by this Ted-Talk:
    http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html?source=facebook#.UhuO_kuCRZF.facebook

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