On Aug 7, 2024. By Fred Turner, Robert Stern, Tina Qin, Taylor Hinchliffe, Roger Malina, Priya Roy, Omer Ahmed….join us
To contact the group send an email to: rxm116130@utdallas.edu
Submerging Emerging in the Proposed Center for Emergence Studies University of Texas at Dallas
Next week a group of colleagues will be meeting with the Dean of our Bass School of Arts Humanities and Technologies.
Our ‘ask’ is to start setting up a Center for the Study of Emergence. See the document at the end of this article/blog.
We have begun the research and dissemination of our results:
1. A Brief History of Emergence
2. Study of the emergence of the arts and humanities at UTD: in press
3. Emergence of Senexism, a Re-Renaissance with the growth of % of people over 65
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15 years ago I, Roger F Malina, published the Open Observatory Manifesto, appended and available online. Also appended at the end of this document.
One concern at the time was the growing tele-surveillance or the growing collection of data on each of us; it advocated that each of us should collect and disseminate data/knowledge ourselves. This has largely happened but:
Little did I anticipate how AI would emerge: 50% of all data online now is not generated by humans but by Artificial Intelligence.
“I think we might reach 90% of online content generated by AI by 2025, so this technology is exponential,” she said. “I believe that the majority of digital content is going to start to be produced by AI.
Nina Schick
At the time, also, I was also concerned about global population growth and the impact on global poverty and the ecologies.
I did not anticipate the decline in population growth today.
The global population reached nearly 8.2 billion by mid-2024 and is expected to grow by another two billion over the next 60 years, peaking at around 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s. It will then fall to around 10.2 billion, which is 700 million lower than expected a decade ago.
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Our Proto-Center for Emergence Studies has identified a key pattern; the growing number of people over the age of 65, and the declining number of people under 25. We call this Senexism.
We optimist identify the emergence of a New Republic of Letters, and a Re-Renaissance due to the growing number of people, over 65, who are no longer motivated by job hunting or their visual appearance and other brain stimulations that change thinking.
Populating decline is a demergence, an increasing number of experienced people is an emergence.
So what should we do to encourage these phenomena in desirable ways?
- Expand our Center for Emergence Studies and get it focused on problems that need to be addressed.
- Establish new forms of institutions for Senexes to accelerate the Re-Renaissance.
Attached below, appended B is my 2010 Open Observatory Manifesto; time to update it?
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Attached below is our current elevator pitch for the proposed UTD center for emergence studies. Sorry, it’s a bit long.
Please contact me at rxm116130@utdallas.edu to participate or negate.
Open Observatory Manifesto is appended below: