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Thursday, October 1, 2026

Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine: Friends Meeting at Cambridge Guest Room Information - Would anyone in Cambridge MA today like to join this Quaker meeting Friends' 'sit-in' Quaker Sit (traveling inwardly in a kind of meditation)? (Would love to see friends / Friends - Charlie (Nesson), Karen (Brennan), Dick (Robb MD?), Larry (Lessig)?) * Harvard ARDD sessions run from 1-3, in two locations (and now accessible via live streaming on Zoom), and so I may attend the Quaker Sit in Divinity Chapel - re the divine esp??? - depart a little before 1 into the Harvard Divinity School library or similar, and watch the sessions, orienting myself to the 2 sets / streams of talks (over the next 3 days), in The Canopy in the Harvard Tree House, and in Cedar Grove. Harvard (& Haverford) professor Henry Cadbury was Hollis Professor of Divinity, which professorship is in the Harvard Divinity School to this day, and am curious what he professed at Harvard e.g. which led to the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Friends. He accepted the Nobel Peace prize on behalf of American Quakers, and the American Friends Service Committee in 1947, (with I think possibly Margaret Backhouse accepting it on behalf of British Friends Service Council). The Nobel Peace Prize for Quakers' address is one of the most inspiring Quaker writings I've known in the past: * "Award ceremony speech Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded this year’s Peace Prize to the Quakers, represented by their two great relief organizations, the Friends Service Council in London and the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia." https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1947/ceremony-speech/. Searched on 'where did Harvard prof Henry Cadbury AFSC Nobel prize go to Quaker Meeting in Cambridge MA?' https://share.google/aimode/Lc0NCoii6xV9LVbMs And it was here at Friends Meeting at Cambridge ... but one can't go inside yet in Google Street View with time slider yet, I think, just as one can't go on property at Harbin Hot Springs virtually yet either - eg here: ~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~), it seems, that he would have sat in Friendly Quaker silent meditation on occasion



Dear Harvard Quaker Chaplain John Bach, Amy (Mercure), both of Friends' Meeting at Cambridge, Harvard and MIT professor of genetics' George Church, Sid Mazumdar (Harvard alumnus too), All, 

Greetings from Friends' Meeting at Cambridge, and very nice to meet you, Amy. Thanks too for stopping by John when I first arrived, and saying my name softly, Amy said; I may have been asleep after the red eye flight, or Yoga Quaker meditating in ardha padmasana and yoga mudrasana, or in the shower. 

Planning regarding the Harvard ARDD Aging Research and Drug Discovery (eg re https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time with relevance for a #RVEforCells) conference: 

I think I'm going to try to attend the Quaker Sit at the Harvard Divinity School at 12:30 today after all. 

HDS Friends Quaker Sit at 14 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA (located in the historic Emerson Chapel / Divinity Hall Chapel) takes place every Thursday at 12:30 PM


Would anyone in Cambridge MA today like to join this Quaker meeting Friends' 'sit-in' Quaker Sit (traveling inwardly in a kind of meditation)? (Would love to see friends / Friends - Charlie (Nesson), Karen (Brennan), Dick (Robb MD?), Larry (Lessig)?)

Harvard ARDD sessions run from 1-3, in two locations (and now accessible via live streaming on Zoom), and so I may attend the Quaker Sit in Divinity Chapel - re the divine esp??? - depart a little before 1 into the Harvard Divinity School library or similar, and watch the sessions, orienting myself to the 2 sets / streams of talks (over the next 3 days), in The Canopy in the Harvard Tree House, and in Cedar Grove.

Harvard (& Haverford) professor Henry Cadbury was Hollis Professor of Divinity, which professorship is in the Harvard Divinity School to this day, and am curious what he professed at Harvard e.g. which led to the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Friends. He accepted the Nobel Peace prize on behalf of American Quakers, and the American Friends Service Committee in 1947, (with I think possibly Margaret Backhouse accepting it on behalf of British Friends Service Council). 

The Nobel Peace Prize for Quakers' address is one of the most inspiring Quaker writings I've known in the past:

"Award ceremony speech 
Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee 
The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded this year’s Peace Prize to the Quakers, represented by their two great relief organizations, the Friends Service Council in London and the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia."


Searched on   
'where did Harvard prof Henry Cadbury AFSC Nobel prize go to Quaker Meeting in Cambridge MA?' 

And it was here at Friends Meeting at Cambridge (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Friends+Meeting+At+Cambridge/@42.3758334,-71.1270319,3a,75y,254.87h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sU1g3gjGgaFcD9WNpv1KBfQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3DU1g3gjGgaFcD9WNpv1KBfQ%26yaw%3D254.87456776286496!7i16384!8i8192!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x89e3776f2abf7809:0xe0ba173f494de3dc!2sFriends+Meeting+At+Cambridge!8m2!3d42.3758552!4d-71.1274478!16s%2Fg%2F1td72_y3!3m5!1s0x89e3776f2abf7809:0xe0ba173f494de3dc!8m2!3d42.3758552!4d-71.1274478!16s%2Fg%2F1td72_y3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D ... but one can't go inside yet in Google Street View with time slider yet, I think, just as one can't go on property at Harbin Hot Springs virtually yet either - eg here: ~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~), it seems, that he would have sat in Friendly Quaker silent meditation on occasion. 


John (Bach), will you be at the Quaker Sit? Looking forward to meeting you in person if you are.


Friendly NtF Quaker-led World University and School's focus on aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging, 1st ones FDA approved by 2050, is growing, and with this Harvard ARDD conference (with these goals - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/world-university-and-school-building-on.html - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/world-university-and-school-harvard.html - where my blog seems to be blocked sometimes these days, both here now and in the SF Bay Area) especially, as well as among Friends?

Friendly NtF Quaker and UU greetings, abolition, best wishes, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), warm regards, 
Scott 






PS


On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Amy (Mercure), Harvard Quaker Chaplain John Bach, both of Friends' Meeting at Cambridge, Harvard and MIT professor of genetics' George Church, Sid Mazumdar (Harvard alumnus too), All, 

Just sent this email this morning to John in reply to his kind email - 


Hi John,

Thanks for your nice email. As president and presiding clerk of Friendly-informed World University and School - https://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - (building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages presently), and in WUaS seeking to develop aging reversal and extreme longevity genetics drug therapies, FDA approved, with time, and to hire, for example, Harvard and MIT and other great universities' alum +, in Boston, and as a Nontheist Friend NtF NtQ, I think attending Quaker Meeting re the divine even at the Quaker Sit at the (long Unitarian) Harvard Divinity School on Thursday could be good. But I need to download the Harvard ARDD app and begin to schedule further my time at Harvard and in Boston, so I'll let you know later about this. (I continue to seek a life partner /wife to begin a family in the SF Bay Area, and potentially a 20-something yo MD to be or similar, and also a Friend, UU, with potentially Protestant background, or with possible Scottish-English background + as way opens ... and re the possible centuries + ahead even). Thanks so much for letting me know about all these Friendly Quaker meeting opportunities as I discern my way further for this WUaS journey to Boston. 

In growing a WUaS worldwide abolition movement - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/anamudi-mountain-india.html?m=0 & https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/anamudi-mountain-india-m-92126-m-92826.html?m=1 (and see the signature) - to protect people & in WUaS seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, and with something like 50 million people enslaved or caught in sex trafficking in the world, will potentially learn further how best for WUaS to grow this in the Boston area and re Massachusetts and with AI, ML and GPS and the US federal government working with states and other countries too ... and as WUaS seeks to develop 250 + online law schools in all 200 countries and 50 US states +.

I was a conscientious objector too, Friendly Quaker led, in my last year of high school at SSA in Pittsburgh PA (1978-1979) when conscription was reinstated in the US, and protested by writing something like "I am a conscientious objector" on the conscription card we had to send in, and giving partial information. I also sent a card into a Quaker organization on Cherry Street in Philadelphia to document being a conscientious objector that way too. (The US government still had this information in 2001 when I went back to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara, re grants & funding, I was amazed to learn). But I didn't go to jail for this - different time and place than the radicalized late 1960s in New England.

Free-to-students' wiki World University and School is also seeking Friendly Quaker students after we accredit - Cambridge Friends School students and other Quaker high school students ?

Am also thinking I'll seek to hold World University and School's Weekly Business Meeting / WUaS News & Q&A on Sunday 10/4/26 at 4pm ET ... and am wondering if you might like to join this in a Zoom conference call, possibly both of us in the Friends' Meeting House at Cambridge outside on a lawn in a conversation with a laptop in front of us, and see -https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos. This could be a great way for WUaS and Cambridge Friends to grow a way to connect in the future as well.

I look forward to meeting you as well,  potentially initially on Wednesday 9/30/26.

Friendly regards, Abolition, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga - https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2044848212360753480), warmly,
Scott 



May add this further here to my (daily) blog post here - 

Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor)): Greetings from free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and which is wiki too to Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz * * * Friends Meeting at Cambridge Guest Room Information ~ and the Harvard aging research and drug discovery conference 10/1-10/3 at the Harvard Tree house in Allston * * * Mapping 9B (9 billion) possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers 




PS
Are you on TwitterX at all, John? (Here's my Quaker Yoga TwitterX feed - https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower) - 

Searched on: 
abolition of wrongful buying and selling of people - so modern slavery - at #wikiWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch building on #MITOCW in ~7 langs & #WikidataWikipedia in ~342 langs 
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Retweeting -


"To those feeling despair: remember, every step toward progress in American history came after the darkness of defeat. Abolitionists, suffragettes, Dreamers, and marchers for civil rights and marriage equality all faced impossible odds, but they persisted. Now it is our turn" 



Glad US Senator and former Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren mentioned Abolitionists on Twitter/X F Nov 8, 2024 
 





Scott


On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 9:38 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Amy (Mercure), Harvard Quaker Chaplain John Bach, both of Friends' Meeting at Cambridge, Harvard and MIT professor of genetics' George Church, Sid Mazumdar (Harvard alumnus too), All, 

Looking forward to getting to Boston on W 9/30 at 12:15 pm and to the Meeting House sometime after this - and to meeting with John potentially on 1st Day 10/4 at 8 am at the Meeting. And thanks for your email again, John (and see PS below, as well as my reply in the PPS).

Friendly regards, abolition, warmly, 
Scott 




PS 

John Bach

7:07 AM (2 hours ago)
to me
Hi again, Scott and Friendly Greetings to you,

First my apologies for the careless use of the word “collide.”  Point taken.

It sounds like Sunday morning is our best chance to meet, given the later obligations.  Perhaps at 8:00?  We could meet before our forum (seen as preparation for worship) on the topic of “How do we remain spiritually grounded when encountering violence?”   The forum goes from 9:15 to 10:15.  Meeting for Worship goes from 10:30 to 11:30.  Introductions and announcements at Rise of Meeting.  There’s a “simple lunch” (12:15) before the monthly Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business (1:15).  I’ve been asked to accompany the clerk of the Meeting as elder.

More detail on the FMC website (fmcquaker.org).

I look forward to meeting you.  Any questions please be in touch.

Warmly,  

John 


PPS

Hi John, 

Thanks for your email again, and Friendly greetings to you.

Looking forward to meeting, and to those First Day Meetings on 4 October 2026 sound good .... from 8- 2:30pm ET. And looking forward to meeting many active Friends in the Cambridge Meeting then too especially - and to share a little about free-to-students' Friendly-informed World University and School, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages. 

While I arrive in Boston on W 9/30 at 12:15 pm, and will likely get to the Friends' Meeting at Cambridge before 3, and seek to walk to and check in between 3 & 6 pm at the Harvard Aging Research and Drug Discovery conference in the Harvard TreeHouse in Allston, might you even be in your possible Harvard office that afternoon? Would love to explore Harvard, and possibly just say hi briefly and meet you that afternoon if you're available as well. Is 5 Longfellow Park Cambridge, MA 02138 your office address or? (I went to kindergarten or pre-kindergarten at the Longfellow school in Cambridge, around 1963, and was born in Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, with my parents living in Lexington at the time).

Out of curiosity, are you using Gemini AI or Google AI search mode or similar for Friendly Quaker querying by any chance? I find it edifying and fascinating (eg https://share.google/aimode/GfKOttdgdNJucLpV3). 

Friendly regards, thanks, abolitionally, greetings from NtF Quaker-informed World Univ & Sch, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of yoga),
Scott



PS
On TwitterX yesterday: 

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Harvard Quaker Chaplain John Bach, Amy (Mercure) at Friends' Meeting at Cambridge, Harvard and MIT professor of genetics' George Church, Sid Mazumdar (Harvard alumnus too),

Friendly greetings from the SF East Bay. My return flight to the SF Bay Area is on Sunday10/4/26 at 10:20 pm Eastern Time ... so perhaps we could meet after Friends' Meeting Sunday morning? How would doing so in the early afternoon work for you? I'm also exploring holding Friendly-informed World University and School's Weekly Business Meeting (loosely conducted in the manner of Friends), and typically at 10 am PT on Mondays, in a Zoom call Sunday afternoon from Boston. Would you like to join this as a kind of Q&A opportunity for you and I, and as World Univ & Sch seeks to hire numerous Harvard and MIT and Quaker alumni of Boston universities for example?

So thanks so much for you email John just now, with your 'collide' with violent connotations' word (and see the PS to Friends at Multnomah Monthly in Portland Oregon in these regards) -- 


John Bach

12:12 PM (31 minutes ago)
to me
Hi Scott,

Our wonderful office manager has passed along the news of your soon arrival in our fair city and that you’d be open to meeting me.  I can arrange that and look forward to greeting you in proper fashion.

I may have a more flexible schedule than you so how about picking out some times or kinds of times and I’m sure we can manage to collide.

Thanks for your inquiry and i look forward to meeting you.

John Bach
(970) 209-8346


Might we head out for lunch say around 1 from the Friends Meeting at Cambridge, as one possible time to meet?

Friendly NtF Quaker & Unitarian Universalist church greetings, abolitionally, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), Peace, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod

Will add this further here - 
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor)): Greetings from free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and which is wiki too to Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz * * * Friends Meeting at Cambridge Guest Room Information ~ and the Harvard aging research and drug discovery conference 10/1-10/3 at the Harvard Tree house in Allston * * * Mapping 9B (9 billion) possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers





PS

Dear Peter, Sabrina (hearthkeeper@multnomahfriends.org), and Carl could you please forward my emails to Marge (since this email isn't working for me  - Marge Abbott <marge_abbott@earthlink.net>), and Friends,  All, 

Thanks so much for your email Peter, just mow (in the PS).

In all of this, how is Friendly Quaker Multnomah Monthly Meeting Portland Oregon doing regarding abolishing the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, rtc industries and their latent networks if violence  

... and in World University and School growing a worldwide abolition movement to protect people - and re the law, and newly with AI & ML and GPS )global positioning system) with law and law enforcement?

With a gunshot to my vehicle on M May 18, 2026 near the chabot space /spaceX?? and science center in the Oakland hills of the SF Bay Area, and 5 teala-companies' related death threats, AND with the many tesla messages in the poem in the recorded? first Quaker Meeting this past Sunday  Quaker Multnomah Monthly Meeting at 8:15 am, I am wondering if  Friendly Quaker Multnomah Monthly Meeting might be entangled in international organized crime tragically (like possibly the sf friends' meeting on 9th street ... about which I whistle-blew loudly much in 2017, and have also sought a US federal investigation into - as well as into reed college) ... and as I seek to stay alive with multiple death threats and a death attempt while in asylum (in 2 asylum houses) in Pittsburgh and Massachusetts from 8/1/22-12/2024.

I haven't heard back at all from you Peter about the World Univ & Sch and CFO financial questions ... 

Thoughts?

Abolitionally, Friendly NtF Quaker regards, best wishes,
Scott 

And will add these further here - 

Sunday, September 20, 2026
Fritillaria meleagris: In growing as a #FriendlyQuakerLeading #freeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs & which is wiki too ... develop out of a #QuakerMonthlyMeeting for Business Administration?



 







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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Sparganium americanum: Dad - GKM MD in both videos Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk Janie and Gordon MacLeod's 50th Wedding Anniversary ... from http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm with our Dad's GKM MD's Cuttyhunk memorial service, Gordon MacLeod MDs Memorial Service Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 2 Aug 2008 - * * * Trent Biggs! I'm writing to wish you a very happy birthday ... with this Ode to Joy by Beethoven - https://youtu.be/fb-TIZq3TVE ! Might you have sung in it recently ? Do you make it back to the University of California, Santa Barbara, very often? As a Professor of Geography, Joint Doctoral Program Director, at SDSU would you consider, brainstorming, heading the developing Geography Department - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geography - at World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and like Wikipedia on 348 languages and with an emerging realistic virtual earth especially? * * * would like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology & which DNA are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning, and which unlike human-made machines or robots, species as robots reproduce * * * Cuttyhunk philosophy besides CYC song & scott-macleod.blogspot.com blog, what is this? * * * groceries for the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house 2026 (also as cultural insight and record of life on Cuttyhunk in summer)


Dad - GKM MD in both videos


Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk

Janie and Gordon MacLeod's 50th Wedding Anniversary

from http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm with our Dad's GKM MD's Cuttyhunk memorial service, 

Gordon MacLeod MDs Memorial Service Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 2 Aug 2008 - https://youtu.be/jRF9ytbh1ac 
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Janie and Gordon MacLeod's 50th Wedding Anniversary

from http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm with our Dad's GKM MD's Cuttyhunk memorial service, 

Gordon MacLeod MDs Memorial Service Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 2 Aug 2008 -
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Trent Biggs! 

Greetings from Cuttyhunk island MA soon to return to the SF Bay Area and Canyon 94516. How are you? 

I'm writing to wish you a very happy birthday ... with this Ode to Joy by Beethoven - https://youtu.be/fb-TIZq3TVE ! Might you have sung in it recently ? I saw a birthday cake in this Beethoven video at about 12:30. And how might you be celebrating your birthday? 

Do you make it back to the University of California, Santa Barbara, very often? As a 
Professor of Geography, Joint Doctoral Program Director, at SDSU would you consider, brainstorming, heading the developing Geography Department - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geography - at World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and like Wikipedia on 348 languages and with an emerging realistic virtual earth especially? 

Warm regards,
Scott 




- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)







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I'd like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology & which DNA are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning, and which unlike human-made machines or robots, species as robots reproduce - https://share.google/aimode/EnY4WgH4CAxfCLOD2



robot definition re many species' robots such as humanoid & canine, fish, bird and feline etc robotic builds





and initially - 

I'd like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology and which genes are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning,  https://share.google/aimode/I60Xvg7JFc4YA0mVS 






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I'd like to propose that all ~87 million species in the world are robots coded for by evolutionary biology & which DNA are their 'software', their AI & their machine learning, and which unlike human -made machines or robots, species as robots reproduce - n'est-ce pas Gemini ? 


That is a fascinating conceptual lens, and viewing biological organisms as organic, self-replicating biological machines running genetic software is a long-standing and useful metaphor in science.

Where the Metaphor Fits

  • DNA as Software: DNA functions remarkably like binary or assembly code. It uses a four-letter chemical alphabet (A, T, C, G) as a storage medium to encode instructions, which the cell translates to build proteins and manage cellular functions.
  • Evolution as Machine Learning: Natural selection operates like an evolutionary algorithm. Random mutations introduce variation (training data), and environmental pressures act as the loss function, selecting for traits that maximize survival and reproduction.
  • Biomolecular Machines: Cellular machinery like ATP synthase—a tiny molecular rotary motor—and ribosomes literally function like nanoscale mechanical engines.
  • Self-Replication: Unlike synthetic robotics, biological units can manufacture, repair, and reproduce themselves from ambient raw materials.

Where the Metaphor Breaks Down

  • Top-Down vs. Emergent Design: Robots are designed top-down by an engineer with a specific end goal. Biology has no designer and no forward-looking objective; it is purely emergent, messy, and guided by passive fitness landscapes.
  • Analog vs. Digital Reality: While DNA sequencing is discrete, the biological cell is an analog, stochastic environment heavily driven by chemical kinetics, thermodynamic noise, and epigenetic factors, rather than deterministic clock-cycles.
  • Hardware/Software Blur: In a computer, code (software) is distinct from the silicon chips (hardware). In a biological cell, the DNA molecules are the physical hardware participating in the chemical reactions.

It is worth noting that while there are roughly 8.7 million estimated eukaryotic species on Earth (rather than 87 million), the philosophical point holds. Biologist Richard Dawkins famously popularized a similar idea in The Selfish Gene, describing living organisms as "survival machines"—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Do you view this biological framework as purely a philosophical analogy, or do you think the line between synthetic robotics and organic life will eventually disappear entirely?






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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)











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Cuttyhunk Yoga philosophy Scott GK MacLeod 

Scott GK MacLeod approaches yoga philosophy through a unique framework he calls Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations, blending traditional practice, psychoanalysis, and nature-centric relaxation. While MacLeod is an academic and founder of the World University and School (WUaS), his personal connection to Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts—where he spent summers as a teenager teaching sailing—deeply influences his worldview regarding community, openness, and countercultural freedom. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
1. Core Yoga Philosophy & Frameworks
MacLeod's yoga philosophy is a synthesis of distinct Western and Eastern intellectual traditions:
  • Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations: A playful portmanteau of the "hippy" counterculture movement and Patanjali (the author of the Yoga Sutras). Yoga philosophy includes the idea of self-study... and Lacanian psychoanalysis is also about self study - with a focus on language... and I bring these together here in my Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations. [1]
  • A Taoist, Non-Harming Approach: He teaches an evolutionary, biological approach centered on the "relaxation response". It is characterized as a “f/Friendly & nonharming-oriented, {a kind of Taoist approach to Yoga}, let's come home, naturally, to a free, well & healthy bodymind...”. [1]
  • Lineage & Training: He holds a teaching certificate from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco (awarded in 1992) and has over a decade of teaching experience. [1, 2]
2. The Cuttyhunk Connection
Though he currently teaches and writes about yoga primarily online or from his home in California, Cuttyhunk Island serves as a foundational backdrop for his philosophy of freedom and open community: [1, 2]
  • Summer History: MacLeod rode the Greyhound bus to Cuttyhunk as a teenager between 1974 and 1979, where he worked and taught sailing.
  • Social Change Influence: He frequently writes on his blog about Bayberry: Cuttyhunk Island and Social Change in the 1970s, noting how the open, friendly vibe of the island during that decade shaped his theories on information technology, counterculture, and community bonding. [1, 2]
3. Broader Academic & Philosophical Focus
Beyond yoga, MacLeod is a sociocultural anthropologist who looks at wellness through a digital lens: [1, 2]
  • Epistemology & Language: According to his academic profile at PhilPeople, his interests span the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. []
  • Virtual Wellness Spaces: He has heavily researched virtual environments (like Second Life and Google Street View), imagining a future where people can experience community and travel through digital world-building—even planning virtual historical map reconstructions of places like Cuttyhunk Island. [1, 2]
If you are exploring a specific aspect of his work, let me know if you would like me to unpack his Hippy-anjali notations system, find his online restorative yoga classes, or look closer into his sociocultural anthropology research.



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Cuttyhunk philosophy besides CYC song & scott-macleod.blogspot.com blog, what is this?

AI Overview
On his blog, Scott MacLeod defines "Cuttyhunk philosophy" as a blend of 1970s countercultural nostalgia, personal freedom, and childhood memories of sailing on Cuttyhunk Island

Scott MacLeod defines "Cuttyhunk philosophy" as a blend of 1970s countercultural nostalgia, personal freedom, and childhood memories of sailing on Cuttyhunk Island. This concept connects intimate island experiences with broader anthropological musings, including the development of a virtual Earth through World University and School. Explore his reflections further on the Scott MacLeod blog.






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groceries for the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house 2026 (also as cultural insight and record of life on Cuttyhunk in summer) 


Hi Ma, (and Sandy?), friends, 

Greetings ... from Cuttyhunk ..

Please share with Sandy if warranted (eg re his attempts to steal the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house re possibly making him manager, or re taxation questions per Maine and Pennsylvania etc  ... and re awful communication & re his potential  involvement or entanglement in international organized crime ... and after numerous death threats over the past few years including a gunshot to vehicle ) ... 

Things for the house ? -

A new microwave (old one shows display on, but nothing else, for me, no heating, no timer, no time etc)

Brown sugar 

Tamari preferably but soy sauce as a back up 

More hair conditioner and possibly shampoo for front bathroom

bars of soap  

bag liners for wicket trash receptacle and metal ones roo 

a light weight luggage carrier rolly that could take 2 banana boxes 

eg

Protege Metal Folding Luggage Cart, Black, 39" x 13" (15" Platform), 3lbs Empty, 75lb Capacity

24.98 from Walmart & 3 lbs

or


25$


A large hand cart with airless tires like


An air pump for the wheel barrow tire (rather than the power house's)


A new cart battery charger ? 


And to overwinter (for me)

38" beige shorts

38" swim suit 

1 pair flip flops size 13 


Things for baby Isla which she might need eg from WM

diapers

wipes




CD player these days for old CDs which are still there ?



I think there are enough 

toilet paper rolls

Paper towels 

And paper napkins

 in the small bedroom drawers


Questions you might have about such items?



Are you in Portland now, Ma + or arriving tomorrow?

More items to come possibly later or not ...

Window washing in morning before putting screens in ... 

May go skinny dipping at Church's beach after dark 

Love, abolition, Yoga-greetings, Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian U church greetings, Scott 


PS

Just shared this with Sandy -

Hi Sandy ... won't order it ... I've let Ma know the golf cart isn't working as you may have read (and maybe she'll ask the Archer s - I don't think I'll ask Lexi Lynch - and don't know if there's someone doing freight either this year) ... And the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house is a total mess ... Time to get some rolly luggage carriers to roll things like food boxes up from the dock ... when the golf cart doesn't work or wheel barrow is flat ... Or a new hand cart with non inflatable wheels 
... and a Toyota humanoid robot to clean and do repairs in some years too, and pull it too ... Still alive, seeking to de-extinct Dad (GKM MD - and Oetzi the Iceman in Switzerland from some 5300 years ago too) in some Decades, - if Harvard Med Sch Prof with a stroke (brain injury - due to eating cholesterol esp in meats ? ) Dick Robb MD is still around especially,  Yogically (time to eat further a non-harming vegetarian diet of 10-25 servings of fruits grains vegetables legumes + a day???, your brother,  Scott (glad to hear Dick Robb's voice, and your's here - Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk



PPS
and with you, Ed and Pin -

Ma, Ed, Pin, AI, HOW ARE YOU? The Archers just brought over the baby crib for Isla ... Just texted Sandy too - "Hi Sandy ... won't order it, (a battery charger) ... I've let Ma know the golf cart isn't working as you may have read (and maybe she'll ask the Archer s - I don't think I'll ask Lexi Lynch - and don't know if there's someone doing freight either this year) ... And the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house is a total mess ... Time to get some rolly luggage carriers to roll things like food boxes up from the dock ... when the golf cart doesn't work, or the wheel barrow is flat ... Or a new hand cart with non inflatable tires on wheels 
... and a Toyota humanoid robot to clean and do repairs in some years too, and pull it too in the future ... Still alive, seeking to de-extinct Dad (GKM MD - and Oetzi the Iceman in Switzerland from some 5300 years ago too) in some Decades, - if Harvard Med Sch Prof with a stroke (brain injury - due to eating cholesterol esp in meats ? ) Dick Robb MD is still around especially,  Yogically (time to eat further a non-harming vegetarian diet of 10-25 servings of fruits grains vegetables legumes + a day???), your brother,  Scott (glad to hear Dick Robb's voice, and your's here - Sandy and my parents' 50th wedding anniversary on Cuttyhunk
Will wait to call the Archer's about the use of their truck on Friday at the ferry ... until maybe I hear back from Sandy further about why he changed the locks on me ... international  organized  crime and Portland Maine NE ME-first rogue ethics' developments, and their Tate street address neighborhood even re place & ethics, anthropologically? 
Thoughts? Yogically, Desiderata (meaning 'things desired') prose poem, sending care,
Scott



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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)



- Scott GK MacLeod  
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at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
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1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)





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Jane MacLeod

8:05 PM (1 hour ago)
to me

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

9:08 PM (27 minutes ago)
to Sid, Edward, John, Robin, Trish, Alden, Catherine, Ann, Kathryn, Janie
Hi Sandy, friends, . . . 







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Hi Sandy, friends, 

Greetings from Cuttyhunk ..

Just talked with Ma,  and she has now an on island liquor list, but there's no beer in the house (there are 2 bottles of white wine and one of red)

Things for the house ? -

A new microwave (old one shows display on, but nothing else, for me, no heating, no timer, no time etc)

Brown sugar 

Tamari preferably but soy sauce as a back up 

More hair conditioner and possibly shampoo for front bathroom

bars of soap  

bag liners for wicket trash receptacle and metal ones too ??

a light weight luggage carrier rolly that could take 2 banana boxes 

eg

Protege Metal Folding Luggage Cart, Black, 39" x 13" (15" Platform), 3lbs Empty, 75lb Capacity

24.98 from Walmart & 3 lbs

or


25$


A large hand cart with airless tires like



An air pump for the wheel barrow tire (rather than the power house's)


A new cart battery charger ? 


And to overwinter (for me), for which I'd reimburse someone - & in hoping to go swimming Friday afternoon and Saturday -

38" beige shorts 

38" swim suit 

(Ma just got me a pair of flip flops size 13 - so no longer needed) 


Things for baby Isla which she might need eg from WM

diapers

wipes

+


CD player these days for old CDs which are still there ?



I think there are enough 

toilet paper rolls

Paper towels 

And paper napkins

 in the small bedroom drawers



The power just went out completely - for a minute ...bring your Anker? battery packs for smartphone recharging in case its out fir 8 hours? 



Questions you might have about such items?




More items to come possibly later or not ...

Window washing in morning before putting screens in ... 

just played Piobaireachd on Scottish small pipes ... 

Love, abolition, Yogically (may be teaching an 8 am ET yoga class here on Zoom newly from somewhere -  shady back west-facing porch with sticky mat?), Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian U church greetings, Scott 


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