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Schools and universities educate (mostly young) people, to equip
them to deal with the future as it unfolds from the present. The
question - whether these schools and universities are fit for that
purpose - has always been relevant, even in slow-paced times of
relative stability, where the future seems predictable as a simple
extension of the past.Now that the future is not predictable
anymore. Slow-paced times have gone. The relative stability in
which universities developed and educated successive generations is
gone. The question whether universities are fit for purpose is now
more relevant than ever.In this book, ten leading thinkers and
eighteen students from different continents, countries and cultures
present their views on futures of universities and whether
present-day universities are fit for purpose. It is an exploration,
meant to inform, inspire and crystallize discussions.
The 2021 IPCC report made one thing crystal clear - global climate
change is here to stay. Time is up. We need to act or climate
change will lead to inconceivable suffering by billions of people.
Buying Time for Climate Action is the combined narrative of world
class experts, all committed to help humanity survive its largely
self-induced destructive course. Changing that course requires
urgent action. Determining which actions will lead to helpful
change requires insights into the stumbling blocks that always
emerge when actions aimed at change are planned, resulting in lost
time. The experts who contributed to this volume, through their
expertise, networks, wisdom and creativity, have largely concluded
that the way to cope with the stumbling blocks is to avoid them by
focusing on grassroots initiatives. Their narratives and
discussions, presented in this book, highlight such thinking.The
book is essential reading for anyone committed to help avoid an
existential disaster for humanity, and ready to move plans into
effective action.
The 2021 IPCC report made one thing crystal clear - global climate
change is here to stay. Time is up. We need to act or climate
change will lead to inconceivable suffering by billions of people.
Buying Time for Climate Action is the combined narrative of world
class experts, all committed to help humanity survive its largely
self-induced destructive course. Changing that course requires
urgent action. Determining which actions will lead to helpful
change requires insights into the stumbling blocks that always
emerge when actions aimed at change are planned, resulting in lost
time. The experts who contributed to this volume, through their
expertise, networks, wisdom and creativity, have largely concluded
that the way to cope with the stumbling blocks is to avoid them by
focusing on grassroots initiatives. Their narratives and
discussions, presented in this book, highlight such thinking.The
book is essential reading for anyone committed to help avoid an
existential disaster for humanity, and ready to move plans into
effective action.
This interesting book is a compilation of the lectures and
discussions held during a four-day event - Grand Challenges for
Science in the 21st Century - organized by Para Limes at the
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.The elite group of
speakers included Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner who called on all
scientists to adopt a truth-seeking approach and not be afraid of
challenging assumptions. The other panellists were Martin Rees,
Astronomer Royal and past President of the Royal Society, the
much-cited Terrence Sejnowski from the renowned Salk Institute for
Biological Studies, the well-known keynote speaker in economics and
complexity sciences Brian Arthur, the former President of the
European Research Council Helga Nowotny and the Director of the
Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science Eors
Szathmary.The lively sessions were moderated by the Danish writer
Tor Norretranders. The panel tackled topics from evolution and the
origin of the universe to modern technologies and artificial
intelligence. The challenges presented during the event are bound
to get the reader thinking about what may lie ahead in our
future.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
This interesting book is a compilation of the lectures and
discussions held during a four-day event - Grand Challenges for
Science in the 21st Century - organized by Para Limes at the
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.The elite group of
speakers included Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner who called on all
scientists to adopt a truth-seeking approach and not be afraid of
challenging assumptions. The other panellists were Martin Rees,
Astronomer Royal and past President of the Royal Society, the
much-cited Terrence Sejnowski from the renowned Salk Institute for
Biological Studies, the well-known keynote speaker in economics and
complexity sciences Brian Arthur, the former President of the
European Research Council Helga Nowotny and the Director of the
Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science Eors
Szathmary.The lively sessions were moderated by the Danish writer
Tor Norretranders. The panel tackled topics from evolution and the
origin of the universe to modern technologies and artificial
intelligence. The challenges presented during the event are bound
to get the reader thinking about what may lie ahead in our
future.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
Human society is no stranger to catastrophe, but the challenges the
world faces today - a ballooning population, intense global
connectivity and the unquenchable thirst of human consumption -
have synergised to make disruptions more frequent, intense and far
reaching.Despite the complexity of these problems, the response
should not be to give up and surrender to these forces, the crash
can be avoided. Humanity does possess the scientific, technological
and social knowledge to not just survive, but also to emerge from
the tumult by being more resilient and sustainable societies. The
most urgent question, therefore, is how can we act on this
knowledge.This book brings together 12 esteemed authors from
diverse fields ranging from geology to governance, who have come
together to collectively issue a unifying clarion call to
action.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
Human society is no stranger to catastrophe, but the challenges the
world faces today - a ballooning population, intense global
connectivity and the unquenchable thirst of human consumption -
have synergised to make disruptions more frequent, intense and far
reaching.Despite the complexity of these problems, the response
should not be to give up and surrender to these forces, the crash
can be avoided. Humanity does possess the scientific, technological
and social knowledge to not just survive, but also to emerge from
the tumult by being more resilient and sustainable societies. The
most urgent question, therefore, is how can we act on this
knowledge.This book brings together 12 esteemed authors from
diverse fields ranging from geology to governance, who have come
together to collectively issue a unifying clarion call to
action.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
The contents of this book continues the theme as in the previous
volume on cultural patterns and cognitive patterns in the East and
West, with special regard to those patterns which are determined by
our natural-genetic endownments in contrast to those patterns which
are influenced by our cultural ('East-West') influences, and within
this context a unique flavour is given to the 'good life' aspects
of adapting to this global community.The chapters written by
leading neuroscientists, give an overarching picture from the
elementary organisational principles of the human brain through the
basic perceptual and motor functions of the brain to the highest
levels of cognition, including aesthetical or moral judgments, with
an eye on what can be called 'good life' in both Eastern and
Western cultures. A unique compilation of state-of-the-art
overviews of how the human brain is organised and functions in
order to achieve high level of social, moral or aesthetic thoughts
across cultures.Published in collaboration with Institute Para
Limes.
With his work on computer logic, John H Holland became one of the
most important founders of modern computer science. People who knew
John H Holland were all amazed and deeply influenced by his
incredibly imaginative and creative mind. He produced many more
ideas than he could follow up in his life time. This selection of
his papers in the field of computer logic entails many of his
explored and unexplored ideas. Revisiting the explored ideas and
exploring the unexplored ones should be of great interest to
scientists of all ages, and of great value to the current research
not only in computer science but in many other fields as
well.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
Our age is characterized by global access to information, places
and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the
others': other people and their cultures by 'indirect knowledge' -
learning about them via the global information net assisted by
electronic and other high-tech communication channels, as well as
by 'direct knowledge': personally visiting various parts of the
world and meeting local people in their own natural and social
environments.East and West, two major worlds of aspirations,
cultures, world-views, theoretical and practical approaches to life
and death, have come closer by personal experiences of both
Westerners and Easterners. But do we really understand the
similarities and differences between the
cultural-cognitive-behavioural-emotional patterns of the East and
the West, with special regard to their neurobiological
underpinnings in the human brain?The contents of this book focus on
cultural patterns and cognitive patterns in the East and West, with
special regard to those patterns which are determined by our
natural-genetic endownments in contrast to those patterns which are
influenced by our cultural ('East-West') influences, and within
this context a unique flavour is given to the 'good life' aspects
of adapting to this global community.Published in collaboration
with Institute Para Limes.
John Holland is one of the few scientists, who all by themselves
and by their pursuits, helped change the course of science and the
wealth of human knowledge. There is hardly a field of science or
problems, that is not affected by John's work on complexity and in
particular, complex adaptive systems. On the occasion of his 85th
birthday, many of his friends wrote about John, about facets of
this remarkable man that only people close to him can know and
tell.This book collects those stories highlighting aspects of the
creation of complexity science that will most likely not be found
in the books on John's works.The stories and anecdotes about his
quests, his collaborators, and his friends, show his incredible
mind, his boyish curiosity and explorative energy, his philosophy
of life, his enormous hospitality and natural inclination to make
friends.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
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