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General Systems Theory

From the 1950’s and 1960’s, an attempt to create an interdisciplinary science of common, dynamic interrelations amongst objects, such as cellular metabolism or members of a society.

Genlish, Genelish

An easy flip to represent a novel geonomic worldly Earthese language

Geo Sapiens

Another phrase so to identify a nascent global brain cognizance

Geonate

A new word for a similar neonatal event whence in a procreative ecosmos life's Earthly evolutionary gestation may have just reach its whole world parturient term.

Geonativity

As noted in these essays, and across the website, if of a mind to ask and see, life’s temporal embryonic, developmental course can be appreciated as an actual reproductive endeavor which has just now reached some manner of its gravid, parturient planet term.

Geonome

A word which follows from genome to represent and signify an apparent global genetic code, broadly conceived, for our EarthKinder progeny. It has been used in the scientific literature in other various ways.

Geonome

A simple, obvious extension of genome so as to identify a similar genetic complement for our nascent personsphere phase

Half the UniVerse

expansion of the “half the sky” phrase used to denote the Earthly presence of women all the procreative way to the entire ecosmos.

Holarchy

From Arthur Koestler and others, a nested scale or hierarchy composed of integrally whole components.

Holistic

A perspective that takes in and considers an entire scene or system all at once – opposite and complement to reduction.

Hologram

An optical interference pattern illuminated by coherent laser light wherein each minute fraction contains the entire image.

Homology

The presence of similar evolved, usually anatomical, characters which have descended from a common ancestor.

Homoplasy

The relationship of common characters which arise independently within a certain phylogenetic kingdom.

Hypercycle

A theory for the origin of self-replicating molecular systems which involve feedback loops by which they bootstrap themselves.

Inflation

The theory that our universe began as a microscopic point which instantly burst to an immense cosmic size at the big bang.

Isomorphic

A term, often used in general systems theory, to connote similarity in shape or structure between different objects, entities or levels in a hierarchy.

Iteration

Repetition of the same mathematical steps or procedural processes over and over. Also applies to subsequent phases of a project.

Liferacy, Liferature, Liferature

We shift g to t so to suggest and imply that our creaturely existence in and of a fertile, organic milieu can take on a lively, textual, code-scriptome edification, a natural narrative.

Mellows and Fellows

Since the mid 17th century, scientists, who were then and now men only, were known as Fellows, such as of the Royal Society. Although in recent years women have gained entry and Nobel recognition, they are still called by this term. Here we suggest a complementary citation and significance by just changing one letter to enter Mellows.

Metazoan

The overall classification of multicellular animals.

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