From the Nova Web site: “How does the 'intelligence' of an ant colony or the stock market arise out of the simple actions of its members? Scientists describe emergence, a science that studies how complex patterns and behaviors arise from the actions of individual units acting independently.” www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/

by Matthew Segall

Though he speaks often of mortal bodies in general (by which he means the male body), seldom does Plato mention sex...

Editor's Note: For a better understanding of this article read Part 1.

Cosmology

by Brian Swimme

Our new challenge is to reinvent our civilization. The major institutions of the modern period, including that of agriculture and religion and education and economics, need to be re-imagined within an intelligent, self-organizing, living Universe, so that instead of degrading the Earth's life systems, humanity might learn to join the enveloping community of living beings in a mutually enhancing manner...

From the Nova Web site: "How does the "intelligence" of an ant colony or the stock market arise out of the simple actions of its members? Scientists describe emergence, a science that studies how complex patterns and behaviors arise from the actions of individual units acting independently." www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/

by Carter Phipps

WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT: It seems like every day we learn something new about the universe, with incredible pictures of distant stars, strange nebulae, or colliding galaxies that dazzle astronomers. If we take a bird's-eye view on the subject of cosmology, what is being revealed about the universe we live in...

by Dr. James Schombert
Edited by Gary Moring

Central to the cosmology of ancient Greece is the belief that the underlying order of the Universe can be known by rational thought alone and can be expressed through mathematical forms. This presupposition lies at the heart of science and is rarely questioned...

Cosmology

by Gary Moring
Science estimates the age of our universe to be between 12 and 15 billion years old. That's quite a long time considering we have only been around for a fraction of that entire period. But from the very beginning, when our ancient ancestors looked up into the night sky, they wondered, "How did it all start?" Is there some purpose for us being here?...

Cosmology

 by Mary Catherine Bateson

The Gaia hypothesis is not a simple assertion that could easily be proved or disproved. Instead it is a complex statement with multiple levels of meaning, like a work of art. At the simplest level, it asserts that this planet is characterized by the capacity for self-correction that characterizes living organisms, the maintenance of continuity by corrective variation. The composition of the atmosphere and the temperatures of the planet over time, for instances, are not accounted for by the laws of chemistry and physics alone, but apparently by processes of self-regulation within those laws. The Gaia hypothesis deepens the sense of the planet as developing, as having a history. Wiggling...

Cosmology