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Earth Earns: An Open Participatory Earthropocene to Astropocene CoCreative Future

Ecosmo Sapiens > New Earth > second genesis

Wytock, Thomas and Adison Motter. Cell reprogramming design by transfer learning of functional transcriptional networks. PNAS. 121/11, 2024. Northwestern University biophysicists (search AM) advance the latest mathematical insights into 3D genomics so to achieve better malady management and medicines.

The lack of genome-wide models for gene regulatory networks complicates the application of control theory to cell behavior. We address this by a transfer learning approach that leverages genome-wide transcriptomic profiles to characterize cell type attractors responses. These responses predict a combinatorial perturbation that minimizes the transcriptional difference between an initial and target cell type, bringing the regulatory network to the basin of attraction. This approach will enable the rapid identification of treatments for complex diseases, and how the dynamics of gene regulatory networks affect phenotypes. (Significance)

Ecosmo Sapiens > New Earth > democracy

McManus, Matthew. Liberal Socialism Now. Aeon Magazine. February, 2024. A University of Michigan political scientist posts a popular review of his thought and writings which have come to advocate an egalitarian reciprocity of personal and communal welfare. He notes how these polar options which have jostled each other through history are often misunderstood and ill defined. In our hyper-stressed moment it is imperative that an obvious middle way complementarity be considered.

The idea of ‘liberal socialism’ might appear odd and opposite. This would be true for those on the Right and the Left who regard liberalism as market capitalism. We must now make an effort to retrieve its historic theory and make the case for a new salience in the 21st century (see also my forthcoming book The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism). The composite phrase is a political ideology that combines support for many liberal institutions and rights with a socialist desire to establish far more equitable and democratic economic arrangements.

Nevertheless, all liberal socialists are committed to three central principles. First, they value (both) collectivism and normative individualism and believe that the wellbeing and free development of individual persons is a moral priority along with their embeddedness in society. Secondly, liberal socialists are committed to each person having an equal opportunity to lead a good life through the provision of shared resources. Third, they are committed to a basic social structure by participatory democratic policies and principles for family and the economy.

Ecosmo Sapiens > New Earth > democracy

Mulya, Didi Ahmad and Romi Muslim. Phase transition and universality of the majority-rule model on complex networks. arXiv:2402.13434. In a paper to appear in the International Journal of Modern Physics C, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia, and University of Technology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia consider possible ways that bipolar political elections might be based in and attributed to basic statistical physics phenomena.

We investigate the phenomena of order-disorder phase transition and the universality of the majority rule model defined on three complex networks, namely the Barabasi-Albert, Watts-Strogatz, and Erdos-Renyi versions. Assume each agent holds two possible opinions distribute across the nodes. Based on our scaling analysis, it is found that the model undergoes a continuous phase transition, with critical points for independence model greater than the anticonformity model. We obtain critical exponents indicating that they exhibit the same universality class as the mean-field Ising model. (Abstract)

We conducted an analysis of the order-disorder phase transition and the universality class of the majority-rule model implemented on heterogeneous networks, wherein each node maintains connections to at least two other nodes. Each agent has two possible opinions across all network nodes. Each agent adheres to the principle of conformity by behavior aligned with the majority opinion. Notably, agents also exhibit anticonformity and independence proclivities. Within this model, anticonformist agents adopt the minority opinion, adjusting their opinion or state to align with the minority viewpoint, while independent agents act autonomously, unaffected by the influence of other agents. (5)

Ecosmo Sapiens > Viable Gaia

fisher, Len, et al. Sustainability: We need to focus on overall system outcomes rather than simplistic targets.. People and Nature. January, 2024. Veteran environmental theorists LF, University of Bristol, Thilo Gross, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Helmut Hillebrand, Ossietzky University, Germany; Anders Sandberg, Helmholtz Center for Marine and Polar Science, and Hiroki Sayama, SUNY Binghamton University scope out both the need to view and treat glocal Earth systems as an animate multiplex whole along with seeking working solutions guided the latest complexity realities.

Many of the global challenges that confront humanity are interlinked in a dynamic complex network, with multiple feedback loops, nonlinear interactions and interdependencies. In regard, an issue is that complex systems such as those formed by the network of global threats have emergent properties which are more than the sum of their parts. We must learn how to deal with or live with these properties if we are to find effective ways to cope with the threats, individually and collectively. Here, we argue that advances in complex systems research have enhanced our ability to analyse and model such entwined systems to the extent to offer a new approach to sustainability. (Excerpt)

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