Journals
Earth Evolution, Emergence, and Uniformitarianism
Embracing emergence for understanding Earth’s history not only can inject excitement into our science, the philosophy can pay psychic benefits
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The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of complex life: implications for finding extraterrestrial civilizations
Here, we elaborate on this long-standing enigma by showing the importance of planetary tectonic style for biological evolution.
Emergent Surrealities: The Post-pandemic Collision of the Law and the Arts
The article “Emergent Surrealities: The Post-pandemic Collision of the Law and the Arts” by John McClellan Marshall and Roger F. Malina is being published in Mensa shortly: https://www.mensa.org/news-media/ This is a chat GPT human corrected summary: of the article accepted for publication. The article “Emergent Surrealities: The Post-pandemic Collision of the Law and the Arts”…
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A Brief History of Emergence
Things have not just changed: change has accelerated on all fronts. Are all these crises just a coincidence, or are they actually symptoms, or byproducts, of some deeper process?
A poetry reading from the Covid era
The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture is one of the driving cultural voices of the city. During the pandemic it had to close down, as did many vital institutions of the heart and mind at that time. They asked me for a poetry reading to be shared online with the membership. I recorded this…
Design Intelligence in Emergent Surrealities
Roger Malina argues that we are in a period of unprecedented problematic emergence; the COVID-19 pandemic is an exemplar that provoked many unexpected changes in our systems. Emergence in complex systems can be physical, biological, chemical, psychological, and social or their combinations.
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Whitepapers
Roger F Malina and Fred the Heretic: Smelly Art Poem
Here is a series of 15 verses on the theme of art made using the sense of smell, using techniques inspired by the Oulipo movement. These methods include constrained writing, permutations, homophonic play, and procedural generation.
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Fred the Heretic Collaborative Review of “Disrupt Science” Book by Mihai Nadin, Springer Books 2023 and Call for Collaborators
The report argued that scientific progress was necessary to a nation’s health, security, and prosperity. This is sometimes summarized as “Since science helped win the war, lets fund it to win the peace”. It led to massive funding of science and technology.
Multimedia
A Brief History of Emergence: With Frederick Turner, Robert Stern, and Roger F. Malina
In this podcast: Why is emergence important in complex systems? How is emergence important for physics, for geophysics and for the arts? What is an emergent university? How is emergent research conducted? Discussion of the Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, time, evolution, and being.
Emergence: A chaotic system pushed into organization
Emergent phenomenon explains that any high energy, far-from-equilibrium system will organize itself in ways that cannot be predicted from knowing its individual components. A chaotic system pushed into organization
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