Plug Into Our Conversation With Elisabet Sahtouris on November 27, 2014
Elisabet Sahtouris, M.S., Ph.D is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, speaker, author and sustainability consultant to businesses, government agencies and other organizations. She is a US and Greek citizen living in Spain while lecturing, doing workshops and media appearances in Europe, North, Central and South America, the MidEast, Asia and Australia/New Zealand. Dr. Sahtouris received a B.F.A. from Syracuse University, an M.S. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in Canada. She held post-doctoral research grants at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and at Massachusetts General Hospital, taught at the Mass. Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Massachusetts and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute´s MBA program. Dr. Sahtouris was a science writer for the NOVA-HORIZON TV series, (WGBH Boston/ BBC London), a UN Consultant on indigenous peoples, in China under the auspices of the Chinese National Science Organization, is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and holder of its Elisabet Sahtouris Chair in Living Economies and is an advisor to Ethical Markets. She was a regular columnist for Mitsubishi ex-CEO’sTachi Kiuchi’s newsletter The Bridge, published in Tokyo for the Japanese Parliament and business leadership and co-convened two international symposia on the Foundations of Science in Hokkaido, Japan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dr. Sahtouris participated in two invitational dialogues with HH the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India and in the Vatican, Rome, and is one of the people identified as Cultural Creatives in the book of that title by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders and of Rising Women; Rising World. Speaking/Consulting Venues include: United...
Our Upcoming Interview With Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Elisabet Sahtouris November 27, 2014
We have created a perfect storm of crises and we have to grow up, it’s as simple as that. It is time for humans to reach the mature cooperative phase. Mutual Responsibility’s panelists will be talking to Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Elisabet Sahtouris on: Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 3:00 PM till 4:00 PM EST (NY Time) [Time Zone Converter] In this interview with Mutual Responsibility, Elisabet will be revealing the secrets to human co-existence. Elisabet inspires us to understand the universe as a conscious, living system. She draws on the world of living systems to give examples of how change is ever-occurring in nature, and how we are all interconnected in ways that we have only just begun to understand. She has studied algae which has covered the Earth in its first 2 billion years, to find that there’s a maturation cycle of all life, and is trying to use this information as a blueprint for how humans should live. Don’t miss out on this one! Be there to connect with us! We have only 100 seats available. Go Here to Register » What Is It? This is a 60 minute live interview broadcast with Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist. With Q&A, we’ll dive right into the secrets of human co-existence in a way that’s easy to understand. If time allows, this event will also give you the opportunity to ask your own questions, share your thoughts, Ideas and struggles in the chat and leave with even greater ideas and solutions. Go Here to Register » What Topics Will be Covered? This broadcast is an example of a more dynamic interview with Elisabet. Elisabet inspires us to understand the universe as a conscious, living system. She draws from the...
One Big Reason To Place New Emphasis On Your Connection With Others: Happiness Is Contagious
… when a person becomes happy, next door neighbors have a 34% increased chance of becoming happy. A friend living within one mile? A 25% increased chance. Siblings? 14%. And a spouse? An 8% chance.” – ABC, Good Morning America (citing research by Professor’s James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis, which they write about in their book, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives) We studied a full social network and found that happiness spreads through it like a contagion. And so we really do think that happiness is contagious.” – James Fowler Image: “what happiness looks like” by AJC1 on...
The Wisdom Of The Crowd – How We Are Smarter & Stronger Together
In an election year, people might disagree about who makes the best candidate. But you don’t hear much argument on the merits of democracy: that millions of average people can together make a wise decision.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist. What Is The Wisdom Of The Crowd? According to Wikipedia, [which is itself an excellent example of the wisdom of the crowd]: The wisdom of the crowd is the process of taking into account the collective opinion of a group of individuals rather than a single expert to answer a question. A large group’s aggregated answers to questions involving quantity estimation, general world knowledge, and spatial reasoning has generally been found to be as good as, and often better than, the answer given by any of the individuals within the group. An intuitive and often-cited explanation for this phenomenon is that there is idiosyncratic noise associated with each individual judgment, and taking the average over a large number of responses will go some way toward canceling the effect of this noise.” The following video shows how the wisdom of the crowds has been implemented: Can The Wisdom Of The Crowds Be Extended Past The Definition Provided Above? I’ve been studying nature recently… starlings in the area around Edinburgh, in the moors of England… at night they come together and they create one of the most spectacular things in all of nature, and it’s called a murmuration… this thing has a function; it protects the birds. You can see on the right here, there is a predator being chased away by the collective power of the birds. Apparently this is a...