Information Life & Natural Intelligence
as Interpreted by Western Researchers in the 21st centruy

Date Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM
subject Information Life & Natural Intelligence


Dear Classmates,

I have been coining the terms, "Information Life" and "Natural Intelligence"
in my expositions according to the nature of quantum information control in
terms human beings.
Recently, Simon Powell's exposition in his article to Western readers
the similar theme in the conventional biological terms in the following
webpage.

http://www.psychoactive-media.com/DUB/dub_prologue.htm

Darwin's Unfinished Business
On the Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature
An unpublished manuscript by Simon G. Powell (c) 2008
I quoted two key paragraphs from Powell FYI, in case you do not have time to read the webpage.

"The idea that Nature's evolutionary processes involve, and produce, intelligence may sound straightforward
enough - yet it does not sit well with orthodox science or, oddly enough, with Intelligent Design enthusiasts.
Intelligence is one of those words that we generally preserve for ourselves alone. Hence, science flatly denies
that biological evolution is intelligent, claiming instead in no uncertain terms that evolution (and, by
implication, Nature) is blind, dumb and utterly mindless. On the other hand, religiously minded scientists
(like the proponents of Intelligent Design) insinuate that the intelligence involved with the existence of life
lies mysteriously outside of Nature rather that seeing intelligence as being a fundamental property of Nature.
This book is therefore an attempt to venture beyond both the orthodox scientific view of evolution as well as
the Intelligent Design creationist view, to gain a fresh perspective on evolution that might appeal to everyone.
No new processes are invoked in order to achieve this new perspective. No supernatural phenomena are
summoned. It is rather the case that evolution is reinterpreted - in the same way that one might reinterpret
the meaning of a book or an ancient hieroglyph."


"Conventional science resolutely denies that any intelligence is involved in evolution, let alone other natural
processes, and so it is principally human intelligence and all the inventions and ideas of human intelligence
which are esteemed and which come to determine the progress of human culture. In this sense we are going
it alone, a species intent on divorcing itself from the natural intelligence which birthed us. It might well be that
until we acknowledge the role of natural intelligence in the evolution of the tree of life then we shall remain
estranged from the rest of Nature and continue to suffer the consequences. In all fields, right relationships
bring health and balance. To acknowledge the presence of natural intelligence within Nature, to seek to learn
from that intelligence, is to begin placing oneself in a right relationship to all else. So poised, balance and
health are maximized. And so we begin."

LHK

date Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:35 PM
subject Re: Further Video Clips: Information Life & Natural Intelligence


Dear Classmates,

Further video clips on Natural intelligence by Metanoia:
The Natural Intelligence Perspective: Videos Clips:
http://www.psychoactive-media.com/NI_O/NI_O.htm


The Metanoia video clips on this webpage further illustrate the awakening awareness by Scientists
and Engineers in the Western world: the distinctions between Natural Intelligence,
Human Conscious Intelligence, and the simulated artificial intelligence of human consciousness.

The Western culture has defined intelligence in human term, where as LaoTze had realized at his time,
the distinction between Natural Intelligence (LaoTze) and Human Knowledge models (ConFuTze).

I have been very clear on these distinctions since the1960s, while I first encountered artificial intelligence
in engineering terms. I have been also exercising Natural Intelligence since I was born with the LaoTze's
tradition in heart.

This may help clarify the definitions while reading my expositions.

This may be the first step in linking the Western Scientific/Technological minds to the origins of the
Chinese Wen Hua 文化 as recorded in the book of LaoTze.


HK