[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: 6 days left to register for, What's love got to do with it? From 'survival to the fittest' to compassionate connection with Richard Watson
Catherine Walther
catherine.walther at gmail.com
Thu May 12 07:18:19 PDT 2022
I just completed another lecture/discussion series with Earth Literacies on
the work of Thomas Berry and it was excellent. I thought you might be
interested, Catherine
If you can’t listen at the set time (1 pm Toronto time) they send you the
lecture afterwards for you to listen when you want.
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Subject: 6 days left to register for, What's love got to do with it? From
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May 11, 2022
Dear Friends,
There are 6 days left to register for evolutionary biologist Richard
Watson's "*What's love got to do with it? From 'Survival of the fittest to
compassionate connection*." Richard will explore his work in evolutionary
biology through the eyes of love. How exciting could that be? You will
not want to miss this informative and inspiring program.
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*What’s Love Got To Do With It?*
*From ‘survival of the fittest’ to compassionate connection.*
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with Richard Watson ‘Survival of the fittest’ is not just a theory of
biological evolution, it’s a worldview. The underlying assumption is that
self-interest and competition is not only natural and unavoidable, but
actually desirable and necessary for any kind of ‘progress’ or
‘improvement’. This assumption drives policies of unlimited growth and
unsustainable exploitation that are catastrophically damaging to us as
individuals, to our global community, and to other living things and the
biosphere. But now a new explanatory framework for creative adaptation in
biological systems is emerging which turns the underlying assumption on its
head. It shows what the ancient wisdom traditions knew all along – that
‘compassionate connection’ (love) is more creative than ‘survival of the
fittest’ (self-interest). This new view of the natural world offers an
antidote to competition-based mindsets and provides a new scientific
foundation for these ancient spiritual wisdoms.
This course seeks to bring together the ideas of this new science and these
worldviews to relieve the tension between self-interest and our impact on
one another and the world around us. The focus will be both on presented
material and what we can learn from each other to move into compassionate
connection.
*The four-week course (4 x 2 hrs) will cover:*
1) *‘Survival of the fittest’* as a biological theory and a worldview.
- the Darwinian principles of natural selection (in biology)
- its scope and limits: what can and cannot be adapted by natural
selection
- ‘the virtues of selfishness’ - survival of the fittest as a worldview
for everything
2) *‘More than the sum of the parts’*; connections, learning and
transformation.
- connectionist theories of learning – adaptive transformation without
differential survival or growth
- from the intelligence of parts to the intelligence of the whole – how
connections create distributed knowledge and collective wisdom
- what kinds of systems can ‘learn’? – intelligence with and without
brains
3) *How nature learns*; intelligence without brains, from cells to Gaia.
- from natural selection to ‘natural induction’ – how networks learn
spontaneously
- can Gaia ‘learn’? - expanding the scope of adaptation from microbes to
planets
- from ‘me vs you’, to us, to dissolving egos: natural induction in
social systems
4) *Design principles:* How to nurture systemic intelligence (and alleviate
isolation, greed and unsustainable exploitation).
- how competition and utility-maximisation destroys systemic intelligence
- the importance of ‘pulse’ – the myth of one-shot learning
- strategies that nurture and tend to our intelligent self-organisation
- the relationships between us: inviting the worldview we choose, and
nurturing systemic intelligence in the systems you care about
Richard Watson
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is an associate Professor in artificial intelligence and theoretical
evolutionary biology at the University of Southampton in the UK. His
research has developed an extensive unification of evolutionary theory and
learning theory which he uses to address big questions about life,
learning, evolution, cognition and love. His current work – explored in
this course – uses this scientific foundation to unify opposing worldviews
and support a more harmonious and compassionate way of life for
individuals, the global community and the biosphere. For more information:
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