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** that we use the the same brain cells to think about us and members of our "group" and different brain cells for members of other groups | ** that we use the the same brain cells to think about us and members of our "group" and different brain cells for members of other groups | ||
** examples of rapid mixing of different groups e.g., the continuum of people of indigenous and African descent in Cuba | ** examples of rapid mixing of different groups e.g., the continuum of people of indigenous and African descent in Cuba | ||
- This could also take the form of video statements of different people asked to react to or debate the statement that "there is only one type of human on earth" | |||
- Background, links to [[related topics]] or similar [[purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]] | - Background, links to [[related topics]] or similar [[purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]] | ||
Revision as of 23:14, 6 June 2010
milliongenerations' offline meetings
Meetings were & will be held to conceive and implement concepts for the organization of the milliongenerations.org effort or to advance its cause and content. Dates, invitations and notes on these Meetings are found on the community portal.
If you want to contribute, milliongenerations currently needs
- Ideas and support for the 'How can there be most happiness?' competition
- Ideas of how and where to start a Stone Clock project and backers of such a project
- Better ways to explain and communicate the questions and purpose
- Contributors who share and advance the purpose of Million Generations, who pose or answer questions or otherwise reflect on the assumption
- Discussions and ideas about the environment that would be more suited to the purpose, i.e. about how the site should be organized
- Ways to realize and implement the desired environment
- Funds and ideas on ways to raise funds
- A public relations strategy and ways to communicate the existence of milliongenerations.org and encourage meaningful contributions.
- A video presentation communicating that "there is only one type of human on earth" e.g.,
- showing different faces (e.g., similar to 6 milliards d'autres and videos (1, 2) of the Charter for Compassion)
- reflecting on
- ideas about ancestry and posterity on the scale of a few hundered years (tell me which group has no ancestors in a few hundered years)
- that no two are identical
- that our "hardwired" and easily self-reinforcing tendency to divide into groups can dangerously be exploited
- that this division into groups can be achieved on the basis of arbitrary and irrelevant "characteristics"
- that we use the the same brain cells to think about us and members of our "group" and different brain cells for members of other groups
- examples of rapid mixing of different groups e.g., the continuum of people of indigenous and African descent in Cuba
- This could also take the form of video statements of different people asked to react to or debate the statement that "there is only one type of human on earth"
- Background, links to related topics or similar purpose
- A function for notes, references and external links such as the one used in wikipedia articles
-...
