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Arcology
School of Thought

 

Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms

Mind

That part of life and knowledge which is engendered by organism but it is not limited to or by the genetic knowledge.

Animals are intelligent but they are not mindful. Culture is the phenomenon that the mind constructs, founded of course upon the genetic experience and intelligence of Homo Sapiens.

The flame that makes the mind unique is reflection: the conscious and operational distinction between the I and the not I. Of all the achievements of life this may be the most astonishing and the most revolutionary. It may entail the redirection of cosmos' evolution.

 

Animism
Art
Artisan
Becoming
Being
Big Bang (B.B.)
Big Crunch (B.C.)
Closed Reality
Complexification, C
Complicated (versus the complex)
Craftsman
Creation
Desirable
Determinism
Duration ,D
Equity
Eschatological Hypothesis
Esthetic Creation
Esthetogenesis
Feasible
Frugality
The Future
Grace
Interiorization
Love Project
M.C.D.
Means and Ends
Memory
Mind
Miniaturization, M
Nature (Reality)
Omega Seed
Open Reality
Opportunism
The Past
The Present
Probabilism
Religion
Residual Anguish
Resurrection
Second Coming
Self-Reliance
Self Revelation
Self-Sufficiency (Utopia)
Spacetime
Stewardship
Technology
Theology
Truth
Urban Effect
Utopia