Genes: Labs, Loving Bliss, Hippies & World University

Genes

Labs - labrador retrievers - have such a consistently loving temperament. This seems to be an example of genes giving expression to a range of 'complex scripts' {'algorithms' in communicative species?} in this breed of dog. They are an exceptionally affable, gentle, intelligent, energetic and good-natured kind of dog. They are also good with little children, as well as loyal. Humans are more complex, and societies seem to alter possibly some of these aspects of humanness, but these characteristics may also be something humans can cultivate with language.


Love in the 'Hippie-Imaginary'

What are examples of love from the hippie-imaginary?

The Rainbow Gathering? {but this is real, although annual}

Ovid's characterization of the Greek myth of "Baucis and Philemon"?

Free love in communal and collective houses and at festivals, in the 1960s and 1970s {this happened}, and in the ongoing generation of counterculture?

Bonobos loving bliss experiments? Where could such explorations take place? How would successful experimentation bear fruit?


World University

How might people give rise to it so that it runs itself, freely, effortlessly, somehow naturally, and easily, and is very beneficial for people, like Wikipedia and MIT Open Course Ware?

How might a virtual World University explore loving bliss? Here are some ways I see Information Technology giving rise to loving bliss - http://socinfotech.pbwiki.com/May+21+2008+Soc+and+Info+Tech+class+transcript?SearchFor=loving+bliss&sp=1 - from a course I taught on Berkman Island (not on Harvard's faculty) in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life this spring.