Pioneer Science?
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [632 Advisory] wordcrafting "Information Ecologist"?????? -tj On Nov 8, 2007 9:55 AM, Prof David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gentlefolk, I need a word. I am working on some educational proposal material, roughing out a possible grant application to the Olin Foundation, and related activities for 632. What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following: art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics, imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and enlightenment? And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that discipline / degree / body of knowledge? Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly ugly as a word. Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship used by Charles Darwin in his travels). Ideas?? dave west _______________________________________________ Advisory mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://santafecomplex.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory_santafecomplex.org -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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