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An Ecological Perspective
Allan Combs
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Saybrook Graduate School
Sally Goerner
Triangle Center for the Study of Complex Systems
374 Wesley Court, Chapel Hill, NC 27515
The evolution of consciousness is seen in the context of energy driven evolution in general, where energy and information are understood as two sides of the same coin. From this perspective consciousness is viewed as an ecological system in which streams of cognitive, perceptual, and emotional information form a rich complex of interactions, analogous to the interactive metabolism of a living cell. The result is an organic, self-generating, or autopoietic, system, continuously in the act of creating itself. Evidence suggests that this process is chaotic, or at least chaotic-like, and capable of assuming a number of distinct states best understood as chaotic attractors.
Key Words
autopoiesis, chaos, consciousness, energy, evolution, information, states, system
1. Introduction: Information, life and self-organizing processes
Old ideas of information as "neg-entropy" were steeped in the Mechanistic Age thermodynamic notion that the universe is losing organized energy and running down directly toward disorder. In this framework, the occasional outposts where systems swim upstream like salmons against the entropic current were understood to be in some sense unnatural. These recalcitrant systems included living organisms of all types, and evidently ecological systems as well. Today, at the dawn of the Age of Evolutionary Systems (Laszlo, 1987), it is increasing apparent that such salmon-like systems are not only common, but the natural and inevitable result of inherent self-organizing processes grounded in the basic architecture of the cosmos (Fox, 1988, Goerner, 1994).
To be more specific, we are now coming to understand the innate tendency of energy systems to evolve into structures that capture energy and use it to organize even more complex, flexible, and tenacious structures. New understandings of interdependent dynamics (commonly called chaos and complexity) are helping explain the mechanisms by which such structures self-organize. It turns out that systems which exist far from equilibrium are the natural product of the self-organizing tendencies of energy currents throughout the universe to move toward greater complexity. Such complexity can be defined in terms of information as well as thermodynamics. Thus these systems are information intensive, capturing free but patterned energy from the environment and using it to enrich their own complex structures.
Energy driven evolution has been conceptualized as represented at several levels of increasing complexity. The first is morphogenesis, or shape changes that increase the efficiency of energy flow (Abraham, 1985). Examples include tornadoes, whirlpools, Benard cells, and reproductive chemical networks (Csanyi, 1985). The second major level of complexity is life, living systems beginning with the simplest single cells that not only use energy to maintain their shape and internal dynamics (metabolism), but also follow energized trails of molecules toward new energy sources that provide the resources they need (Swenson, 1991). Thus, life is unique because it adds intentionality--movement toward energy concentrations needed to sustain itself, and relative autonomy from the immediate gradients that maintain simpler morphogenic systems.
The following of fine-grained energy patterns that lead to the resources needed to survive represents the first use of "information" of the practical variety. This being the case, early life can also be conceptualized as an elementary type of mind, one that uses information to pursue intelligent, life-sustaining behaviors. Hence, as Maturana and Varela put it, "to live is to cognize" (Maturana & Varela, 1987; see also Pattee, 1982). From these beginnings life has evolved toward increasingly complex organization and energy utilization, leading in a direct line to increasingly complex minds. The human brain itself seems to leverage the greatest amount of energy with the least effort of any known system in the universe.
The third major level of complexity is that of supra-living, or social systems. These include human societies with their economies and technologies. They organize and direct much larger energy flows than the living organisms of which they are composed (i.e., individual human beings). Each of these three levels comes into being and advances by complex energy-driven interdependent dynamics (Goerner, 1994, forthcoming). In all this it seems clear that the motif of energy-driven complexification is virtually a universal organizing principle throughout cosmos. In this paper we hope to take a first step toward applying it to one of the most enigmatic aspects that cosmos, consciousness itself.
2. Consciousness and information
Let us momentarily adopt a subjective stance. Doing so we will discuss consciousness itself, then connect the resulting ideas with notions of energy, information, and evolution.
Consciousness always has an object. In other words, it is always about something (Combs, 1995b). We are not just conscious, we are conscious of the taste of food, the smell of the sea, a tooth ache. We are conscious of joy, of boredom, of the meaning of words on the page in front of us, of the sound of music playing in the next room, of our own thoughts, of memories. The point is that virtually all experience is experience of something. This has been a given in psychology and philosophy for a long time. Now let us also consider the situation from the point of view of the brain. The exact relationship between consciousness and the brain is not known, and is unlikely to become known in the immediate future. It is generally understood, however, that the two are intimately connected. In particular, events in consciousness do not occur without corresponding events in the brain, though we may not know their precise nature. (There are, of course, events in the brain that do not registrar in consciousness.) Let us go one step further and note that events which lead to increased complexity in conscious experience also must in their own way lead to increased complexity in brain processes. To look at a tree in bloom presents the mind with a picture of pleasing complexity. Likewise, we cannot doubt that the brain is treated to a similar upgrade in complexity, and that electrochemical changes there support our experience of pleasure as well. New abilities to measure the degree of complexity of perceptual processes are now beginning to confirm that this is the case (Gentry & Wakefield, 1990).
In the above example it is apparent that looking at a tree in bloom in-forms both the brain and the mind, or conscious experience, in a way that increases their complexity. Their information level has been enlarged. Here we see the interchangability of experience and information. Consciousness would seem to be intimately involved with the informing of the brain and mind by objects of attention. Moreover, on the brain side we see that the complexification associated with a conscious experience also involves an increase in energy, though this may be only be of a small amount. Here again the connection with neg-entropy comes into play as a decrease in disorganization and an increase in order. These ideas can be developed much further (e.g., Germine, in preparation), but would take us away from our present course.
With the understanding that conscious experience does not occur without the presence of correlated events in the patterns of brain processes, we now turn our attention to the self-organizing nature of mind, or consciousness. However, we will keep in mind that mental processes are bankrolled by energy-driven brain processes which evolve from moment to moment in the exquisitely complex process lattices of the nervous system.
3. An ecological understanding of consciousness
Consciousness is perhaps best understood from an ecological perspective in which the ongoing events that structure it are seen as a rich interacting complex of informing cognitive, perceptual, and emotional information subsystems analogous to the interactive energy driven metabolism of a living cell. The result is an organic, self-generating, or autopoietic, system constantly in the act of creating itself.
Informal introspection reveals the overall fabric of conscious experience at each moment to be constructed of a variety of undergirding psychological processes such as memory, perception, and emotion (e.g., James 1890/1981; Combs, 1993b; Combs, 1995b). This idea is consistent with Tart's (1975, 1985) view that states of consciousness, including dream and non-dream sleep, various drug-induced and ecstatic states, as well as ordinary waking consciousness, are formed of unique patterns of psychological functions, or processes, that fit comfortably together to make something like a gestalt. We may suspect that this comfortable gestalt represents an energy minimum from the brain's point of view.
There is increasing evidence on many fronts that such psychological processes, as well as the neurological events that undergird them, are partially chaotic or, if they do not meet the formal criteria for chaos (e.g., Kellert, 1993), at least chaos-like (e.g., Abraham & Gilgen, 1994; Basar, 1990; Freeman, 1995; Pribram, 1995; Robertson & Combs, 1995). That is, they appear to be deterministic and nonlinear, exhibiting globally predictable patterns of behavior that never exactly repeat themselves, and are not predictable in detail. In other words, these psychological processes can be modeled as chaotic attractors. From this it seems reasonable that consciousness itself, as a whole fabric, can be understood as a complex system comprised of chaotic or chaotic-like psychological processes (Goertzel, 1994; Goertzel, 1995). The advantage to this state of affairs is added flexibility. For instance, in a memory search the injection of chaos keeps the process fluid, so the memory attractor, which can be viewed either psychologically or neurologically, is not permanently distracted into small incorrect minima, or in other words, so that incorrect items are not selected and the search terminated before the correct one is recalled.
Bringing the above ideas together, we suggest that each state of consciousness, mood, or frame of mind, represents a unique and coherent--minimal energy--fit for the in-formation streams represented by the many psychological processes which comprise it, producing a stable pattern or gestalt. Further, the stability of the pattern arises from its autopoietic tendency to self-organize. How this works on the level of experience is discussed at length elsewhere (Combs, 1993a, 1995a), but need not be subtle. For instance, an ordinary episode of depression is usually accompanied by behaviors that actively feed that state of mind, or at least don't rally against it. In the mean time, cognitive processes such as thought, perception, and memory become tilted toward depressing outcomes. Research suggests, for example, that when we are depressed we tend to recall unpleasant episodes from our past (Bower, 1981). These recollections in turn feed the mood of depression, and so perpetuate a continuous cycle of memory and mood. To disrupt such a self-perpetuating circuit one needs to engage in activities that can up-end the dominant depressive attractor. For instance, one can visit friends, listen to a rousing piece of music, eat a good meal, or take a brisk walk in the forest.
The essential notion here is that the whole cloth of consciousness is woven of a tightly knit informational patchwork of subprocesses, each made possible and supported on all sides by the totality of the cloth itself, while at the same time contributing its own part to the creation of that totality. To put it another way, consider two discrete states of consciousness, the ordinary waking state and dream sleep. Each is an entire world of experience. Each carries its own intrinsic styles of thinking, its own forms of memory, feelings, thought and perceptions--its own possibilities. Dream thought, for instance, arises from the total experience of the dream and cannot be sensibly separated from it. At the same time, it contributes its unique quality to the dream.
Recently, a few neuroscientists (e.g., Freeman, 1995; Sulis, 1996) have extended the above line of thought to include an understanding that the human brain did not evolve in isolation, but in the community of other such brains. Thus for human beings, processes such as thought, perception, emotion, and even memory, are usually shared events within tribal, family, and community groups. Exceptions are rare and sometimes celebrated, but do not represent the customary basic mode of human experience. Thus it would seem that we need to seek a more complete understanding of social systems, from dyads to civilizations, in the context of the informational systems that nest the conscious experience of individual minds within much larger dynamic community systems. These systems are, in fact the "supra-living" systems seen earlier in the article. Here, however, we note that such systems do not represent a hierarchically higher and separate category of energy organization, but in fact are interpenetrated by human experience and consciousness itself.
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We left Khandygan in the morning. The roads were nice, but the scenery a bit dull. This was for us another transport stretch. We got our heads down and twisted the throttles as good as we could. Then we literarily came around a bend and we had the most magnificent mountains ahead of us.
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There were quite a bit of road work in the area. This is the main road to Magadan, via Ust Nera, and there are a lot big trucks using the road.
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The first thing we did when we got there was to get some gas.
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After the feeding frenzy we got ready to cross the Kyubyueme river. This is the first major obstacle you meet when you want to ride the Old Summer Road
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OOC:Princess Bride aside though, man you're so good with Sasha sometimes I forget there's a guy behind her and just see her name. Lol
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Ano Doom:Sasha, you sure know how to make a Demon Cyborg happy. And also ,Blue already knows what I'm up too...He just CANT seem to get it through Pink's head...Which is good. Would you like me to destroy them now or are you leaving temporarily ?
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Spring 2007, and immigration advocates are optimistic. But with Senator McCain tied up with presidential primaries, Kennedy has lost his partner. Republicans change their offer, and things come down to what is in essence a moral tale of American politics: Kennedy must decide exactly how much he has to compromise in order to strike a deal on what could be his greatest legacy.
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"I am confident that you learned to think critically, not to accept at face value everything you read, hear, or see," she added. "You demonstrated your ability to debate ideas and to see both sides of an argument before making judgment. These are a few of the qualities of an educated person.
"May you be fortunate enough to earn in the years ahead, and may you be wise enough to return some of your blessings to those who aspire to follow in your footsteps."
The afternoon commencement opened with local entrepreneur Scott Niswonger addressing the students.
Niswonger is the chairman of Landair Transport, Inc. and is chairman emeritus of Forward Air Corporation. In addition, Niswonger is an alumnus of the college, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration in 1987 and then a Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2006. He also serves as a member of the Tusculum College Board of Trustees.
Niswonger talked about his motto, "Learn, Earn and Return."
"The learning is what we continue to do every day," he told graduates. "It does not end with your graduation today. It's just beginning. As Louis Pasteur once said, 'Change favors the prepared mind.' Being informed and educated is a major part of your preparedness.
"The second part of this concept is earning. Earning money is what we do to provide for ourselves and loved ones needs. There's nothing wrong with wanting to earn money, but money in itself or simply striving to attain material possessions should not be your driving motivation.
"The third element, return, means you have the responsibility to return a portion of your time, talents and resources to help your church, community, state, nation and alma mater. Just being educated isn't enough. You have to be a good citizen."
Four student speakers addressed the graduates, including Robin Barnett of Talbott, who received a bachelor's degree in psychology.
Barnett spoke about the challenges of going to college after an extended period of time after high school. "I think I knew deep down that I could be more," she said. "Even though I was thrilled with my life with my kids, I felt like I would end up stuck and in turn short changing my children as well as myself by not finding something that would make me whole."
Also speaking at the morning ceremony was Amanda McCamey, graduating with a Master of Arts in Teaching. McCamey is from Knoxville and prior to her enrollment in the Graduate and Professional Studies Program was a stay-at-home mother.
"Everything seemed to fall into place from there. Still, there existed some hesitancy on my part. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go back to school, it was a huge commitment for me at the time. And if the thought of going back to school wasn't scary enough, I was selecting a totally different career path," McCamey told her fellow graduates. "It was definitely one of those moments when you find yourself at a crossroads. And, sometimes in this type of decision dilemma you simply need to be courageous and take a risk."
In the afternoon ceremony, student speakers included Tyler L. Bright of Limestone and Rick Monroe of Knoxville.
Bright, a junior majoring in mathematics in the residential program, is a member of the Honors Program, and he is a member of the Tusculum College marching, concert and jazz bands. Monroe received an MBA and previously received his bachelor's degree in organizational management in 2000 from Tusculum.
Bright provided advice about future achievement by citing examples from his own college career.
"I wanted to get involved at Tusculum College and become immersed in what it had to offer," he said. "What resulted was Tusculum seeming like a home away from home."
Monroe spoke of dropping out of high school and the perception on education it gave him.
"It was at this time I received one of those life lessons that developed one of my philosophies for life, that being – success happens when preparation meets opportunity," he said. "I felt I had missed out on a golden opportunity because I didn't have a diploma. From that point on, I made a commitment to make sure that wouldn't happen again."
Mark Stokes, director of religious life, church and community relations at Tusculum College, presented a sermon titled, "Learn Something New." He addressed life-long learning and the awareness of what is still left to learn. He told them never to think they know so much that they no longer need God's guidance.
"College was never meant to teach you everything you need to know. It merely equips you," he said. "An education is meant to give you all the mental tools you need to dig out the deep treasures of life. But, you must do the digging."


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'Sherlock' video: Irish parody 'Sure Look' investigates dirty photosAdd to Favorites | Sherlock
WARNING: This video contains semi-nudity and some bad language. It's definitely NSFW.
A show as successful as "Sherlock" necessarily attracts parodies. That is clear in this latest satirical version of the mystery series, "Sure Look," from the comedy show, "Republic of Telly."
This detective is neither as brilliant nor as moral as Sherlock Holmes, of course. He lets people die in his place (or something like that), can barely find a clue if his life depends on it, and even allows Moriarty to send a bare-bottom photo to the President of Ireland.
Yes, that's pretty much the crime here.
Whatever the video lacks in crime-fighting and mystery, however, it more than makes up in absurdity.
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A CODE is needed to lay down the rules for public sector advertising spending, an AM has claimed.
Ken Skates, Clwyd South AM, has called on the Welsh Government to develop new guidelines.
Mr Skates, who chaired a task and finish group into the media in Wales, said: "From road traffic orders to job adverts through to public notices and recycling information, millions of pounds is spent every single year by the Welsh Government, our NHS, local councils and other public sector bodies in advertising and communicating with the public.
"However, at the same time we also see a lot of confusion among the public about where to find this important information. We need clearer guidelines about how and where public money spent on advertising in the 21st century can be most effectively targeted.
"If local papers, both online and in print, became the place where important local information about healthcare reforms, traffic information, job adverts or changes to important services such as refuse collection was housed, then the public would be much better informed."
He added: "We've had a lot of focus recently about the way in which public procurement can be used to support local businesses. I don't see why we can't do the same with local newspapers."


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Planting Trees to Protect Water Resources (China)
In April 2014, Epson Engineering (Shenzhen) Ltd. (ESL) volunteers planted trees along the banks of Xili Dam, a water resource protection area in Shenzhen, China. Some 50 employees and members of their families spent two hours planting more than 100 sweet osmanthus saplings to prevent sand and soil from washing into the dam and protect this precious source of water.
Epson holds cleanup events at sites in the vicinity of Epson facilities in China. Epson employee volunteers and members of their families participate in these community beautification events, which also help protect the environment.
Epson Precision Suzhou Co. Ltd (EPSZ) holds an annual parent-child cleanup event as a way to contribute to a healthy community environment and to the environmental education of children. In November 2013, approximately 70 volunteers participated in a cleanup of a local park. Through this event, the eager child volunteers learned about taking the initiative to protect the environment.
In March 2014, approximately 50 employees of Epson Engineering (Shenzhen) Ltd. (ESL) and members of their families participated in a cleanup event at the Shenzhen Xili Fruit Farm as part of the local government's efforts to make Shenzhen among the most livable cities in China. The Shenzhen Xili Fruit Farm is situated along the bank of a dam reservoir in a water resource protection area. On the day of the two-hour event the volunteers picked up empty cans, food packages, paper, and other trash strewn along the path running next to the reservoir, restoring the cleanliness of that tract of the fruit farm.
Employees of Epson Precision (Thailand) Ltd. (EPTH) built an artificial reef to be installed off Dong-Tran beach to provide a refuge and breeding ground for aquatic life forms. Personnel from the Royal Thai Navy explained and demonstrated how to make the reef, which required that EPTH's members work together to assemble a set consisting of 25 pieces of plastic piping. When deployed in the sea, it will become a home for sea life.
For the past two years Epson Precision (Philippines), Inc. (EPPI) has been partnering with the National Power Corporation and the Malarayat-Malepunyo Watershed Protection Council (MMWPC) to plant trees on Mt. Malaraya-Malepunyo Lipa City. In 2013, 191 volunteers from EPPI, including the president, replanted an area covering two hectares with 4,000 saplings of various species native to the Philippines, including narra, kupang, tibig, toog, and taluto.
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Believing that environmental problems are better addressed through collaboration than competition, Epson participates in a program that sends engineer volunteers who belong to a cross-enterprise network out into the community to advise local businesses about ways to conserve energy.
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Then, in 2010, using know-how from the Shinshu Energy Patrol Team, Epson Taiwan Technology & Trading Ltd. (ETT) partnered with local companies and groups to launch the Taiwan Energy Patrol Program to cover even more territory.
Epson holds cleanup events at sites in the vicinity of Epson facilities in China. Epson employee volunteers and members of their families participate in these community beautification events, which also help protect the environment.
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The masonry restoration work at the Emil Bach House has progressed well. Over the years, various efforts at tuckpointing were done on an "as needed" basis. Unfortunately, they were, by and large, maintenance work done with little regard to the original masonry work. This is particularly evident in the mortar joints where previous repairs basically installed all the mortar joints flush with the bricks or sometimes striking them with a slightly concave joint. Originally, in the Bach House, Wright had all the horizontal joint at about 1/2″ wide, then struck and raked back about 3/8 of an inch. All the vertical joints were laid in tight at less than 1/4" and the mortar was stuck flush with the brick. This was a detail that was used in other Wright projects and it complimented the horizontal lines of the building. We able to find several areas of the house that still had this detail due to those areas never having been tuckpointed after the original construction.
Typical section of "repaired" masonry
Grinding the "repaired" mortar joints back.
Helen checking the depth of the horizontal mortar joint.
Close up of joint depth.
Close ups of finished tuck pointing


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Lucille Ball Height and Weight
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115 lbs or 52 kg
Lucille Ball Height?
5′ 7½" (171 cm)
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Date Of Birth (Birthday)
6 August 1911, Jamestown, New York, USA
Date of Death
26 April 1989, Beverly Hills, California, USA (acute aortic aneurysm)
Birth Name
Lucille Désirée Ball
Technicolor Tessie
Queen of the B movies (during the 1940s)
The First Lady of Television
The Queen of Comedy
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'Downton Abbey': Maggie Smith gets remixedAdd to Favorites | Downton Abbey
Watch Downton Abbey: The Best Maggie Moments on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.What are we going to do until "Downton Abbey" returns, Downtonites? Well, one of the ways we can pass the time is to watch videos like the one above, where Lady Violet the Dowager Countess ( Maggie Smith) gets remixed to Rod Stewart's "Maggie Mae."
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