How Dialogue on 'Ingenuity in Nature' Increases Enthusiasm for Engineering and Science in Traditional Religious Communities

Halsmer, Dominic; Odom, Peter Wesley

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“…This fourth entity is the investigator of the existing engineered system, or the "reverse engineer." Several examples that help to clarify this approach are described in the first author's recent book, Hacking the Cosmos [21]. A classic example from the twentieth century is the reverse engineering of the Antikythera Mechanism, delightfully recounted by Jo Marchant in her book, Decoding the Heavens [22].…”

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“…But in light of the hope that we somehow persist beyond the grave, perhaps these negatives form a necessary part of the system; one that affords real freedom to complex organisms, training in the ability to fully love, and the apprehension of vital truths; truths that become ever clearer as we continue the quest of hacking the cosmos! [52].…”

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Perspective chapter: Affordance-based Reverse Engineering of Natural Systems

Halsmer,

Baez

2023

Environmental Health Literacy Update - New Evidence, Methodologies and Perspectives

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Affordance-based Reverse Systems Engineering (ARSE) focuses on the key enabling relationships between elements of a complex system (part-to-part affordances), and the enabling relationships between the system and its end users (end-user affordances). A novel application of this methodology to natural systems assists in a deeper understanding of the issues surrounding biological evolution, and the critical role of those precursor systems upon which it depends for success. ARSE represents an objective approach to these important questions since affordances simply delineate what actions the elements of a complex system, including the end user, can potentially take. Life-related systems are characterized by dependent sequences of affordances that are both spatially and chronologically nested across a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. A reverse engineering approach that attends to all these sequences contributes to a more philosophically satisfying retrodiction in applying abductive reasoning to both the human condition and the cosmos as a whole.

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Section: Reverse Systems Engineering With a Focus On Affordancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%