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About Peter Corning

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March 28, 2018

Peter Corning is currently the Director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems in Seattle, Washington.  He was also once a science writer at Newsweek and a professor for many years in the Human Biology Program at Stanford University, along with holding a research appointment in Stanford’s Behavior Genetics Laboratory.  

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Does Our Species Have a Future?

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March 28, 2018
Does Our Species Have a Future? Dr. Peter Corning’s New Book Redefines What Evolution Can Teach Us About How the World Works.
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Why the “Fair Society” is the Way Forward

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February 19, 2018

The New Narrative: Why the “Fair Society” is the Way Forward

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“Feedback”: It’s the Only Way to “Control the Controllers”

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January 19, 2018

“Feedback” is a hugely important phenomenon.  It plays a key role in all goal-oriented, dynamic systems, from living organisms to self-driving cars.  Feedback is information that tells a system how it is doing in relation to its goals and guides its behavior over time.  (Feedback systems are often referred to as being “cybernetic”, after the Greek word for “helmsman” – kybernetes.)  Positive feedback tells the system to continue doing what it is doing, or even to do more of it.  And negative feedback tells the system to change its behavior. 

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Should We Have a “Gross National Happiness” Index?

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December 04, 2017

It seems that happiness is busting out all over – like that famous lyric from the classic Broadway musical, Oklahoma.  True, happiness is not much in evidence in our  economy, or in our shrill and rancorous politics.  But never mind.  An explosion of research and a bumper crop of writings about happiness can be found -- somewhat incongruously -- in various academic journals these days, as well as in the bookstalls.  A dozen titles were counted in a local bookstore recently without breaking a sweat.

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