The Third Culture

The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow , 1963 talked to classical academicians the traditional intellectuals and scientists . How they related to each other and communicated. Snow suggested that the two would emerge into a new third culture because the old traditional was a closed system. In reality today’s scientists are going directly to the general public.

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution by John Brochman ,1995. The author had had ongoing one-on-one discussions with the new third culture scientists in his book and at his website http://www.edge.org.

The third culture has become “science” and it is the “public culture”. It is the thing that is most interesting to the public and is changing our understanding of everything at an incredible rate.
Topics: artificial intelligence, artificial life, neural nets, superstrings, nanotechnology, the human genome, expert systems, fuzzy logic, Gaia hypothesis, virtual reality, cyberspace to name only a few.

Relativity will be reporting on who these third culture intellectuals are and why what they are saying is relative to our world. We will be connecting the dots’ which is one definition of an intellectual and a good teacher.

The fundamental questions asked in the book: “Where did the universe come from? Where did life come from? Where did mind come from? “ How did this complex system evolve and how do we understand and make sense of it all.