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	MCA - Activity in Time
		Our immediate human interactional timescale ranges from the glance and the word, said or done in a second or less, to the complex sentence spoken or heard, the complex action performed over a few tens of seconds.
		For adjacent timescales it is also quite clear that the processes at the next lower timescale make possible the repeatable patternings of the next longer scale, in accord with the reductionist model of systems hierarchies.
		But level N is never the top level (certainly for human social processes); interactions on the focal level are not free to range over all the possibilities afforded them: they are also constrained by being themselves part of longer timescale processes at level N+1.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jaylemke/webs/time/MCA-2.htm (1487 words)

	List of time periods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The geologic timescale covers the extent of the existence of Earth, from about 4600 million years ago to the present day.
		It is used to consider the formation and change of the Earth itself, and large-scale changes in the planet's inhabitants.
		The "human" timescale covers the time that humans have existed, usually taken to be from about 250,000 years ago - when Homo Sapiens began to develop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_time_periods (336 words)

	Abandoning Anthropocentrism
		Anthropocentrism is the worldview of mankind as the centre of the universe.
		It is tied with anthropomorphism—giving human traits to aspects of nature, such as thunder, lightning, and the universe itself.
		Such an intelligence is given various human traits, such as love, wrath and judgement, and even human body parts, though later philosophers try to excise such crude anthropomorphism from their theologies.
	www.geocities.com /stmetanat/anthropocentrism.htm (1173 words)

	The state of the world? It is on the brink of disaster
		"Humans are fundamentally and to a significant extent irreversibly changing the diversity of life on earth and most of these changes represent a loss of biodiversity," the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment says.
		The board of directors of the Millennium Assessment said in a statement: "The overriding conclusion of this assessment is that it lies within the power of human societies to ease the strains we are putting on the nature services of the planet, while continuing to use them to bring better living standards to all.
		At the end of the day, if we are to respect the limits imposed by nature, and ensure the well-being of all humanity, we must manage the global economy to produce a fairer distribution of the earth's resources," he added.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/033105_world_stories.shtml (2243 words)

	1.2.5
		The so-called dualist theory of the human compound, as originally developed by Descartes and widely accepted today by the ordinary person, holds that the human being consists of two separate kinds of thing: the body and the mind or soul.
		In the nanomedical era, even the most diehard reductionist must come to see the human body not merely as a heap of parts but rather as a finely tuned vehicle that is owned and piloted by a single human mind.
		The physical human body may be one of the last bastions of "naturalness" (Section 1.3.4).
	www.nanomedicine.com /NMI/1.2.5.htm (1296 words)

	The J Curve: Will we comprehend supra-human emergence?
		Human communication sets the clock rate for the human hive (and the Interet expands the fanout and clock rate).
		The cells in a human are selected to contribute to the complex and directed behavior of the human.
		In contrast, humans are selected to win the genetic contest as humans, maybe with a small field of overlap for genetic material shared in relatives or tribes.
	jurvetson.blogspot.com /2004/06/will-we-comprehend-supra-human.html (5171 words)

	The ape-ancestry myth (1)
		According to mainstream science, humans are evolved apes who, as a result of random genetic mutations and environmental pressures, happened to acquire the unique power of selfconsciousness.
		Humans, as bipeds, are notably slower than quadrupeds – a serious problem for a tree-dweller that supposedly moved out onto the predator-rich savannas.
		The claim that humans and chimpanzees are genetically 99.4% alike does seem hard to believe given that the chimp genome is 10% larger than a human’s, and humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes compared to 24 for the chimps (a difference of over 4%).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/ape1.htm (8988 words)

	Renewable energy - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Solar energy's main human application throughout most of history has thus been in agriculture and forestry, via photosynthesis.
		Solar power as a direct energy source has been not been captured by mechanical systems until recent human history, but was captured as an energy source through architecture in certain societies for many centuries.
		It may be used in conventional internal combustion engines, or in fuel cells which convert chemical energy directly to electricity without flames, in the same way the human body burns fuel.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Renewable_energy (7662 words)

	Renewable energy - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The original energy source for all human activity was the sun via growing plants.
		Firewood was the earliest manipulated energy source in human history, being used as a thermal energy source through burning, and it is still important in this context today.
		Burning wood was important for both cooking and providing heat, enabling human presence in cold climates.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /r/re/renewable_energy.html (6870 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems: Proceedings of a Symposium (1987)
		That the space station occupies a middle range in the total timescale of human action is a significant simplification--a we will discover when we have to plan permanent space or lunar stations.
		The situation at the interface between the human and some machines provides a good example of the increase in the capabilities that are available, with a concomitant increase in the complexity for those of us who design and understand these systems.
		They are all facets of how humans are to interact with the primary technology of the space station, and what technologies are involved in that interaction.
	www.nap.edu /books/POD268/html/17.html (5146 words)

	archives \| TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Humans are too faulty, a genetic mess, hardly the result of a divine effort, compared to the beauty all around us on this planet, not that we haven't been trying to bring it down to our level, fortunately there's still plenty of spheres with limited human impact.
		Even disregarding the cuneiform stories of Sitchen, it ain't no leap of faith to recognise external interference, going on for 200,000 years at least, off our tiny human timescale, but we should be able to understand that goals and priorities evolved aswell during that time, not to mention earths climate.
		It's save to say that 'officially' recognising humans for what they are would create an enormous vacuum, more than room enough for the pseudo gods- and certainly for those that claim to represent them- to take control.
	www.dailygrail.com /archive/2005/8/25 (2189 words)

	Eberly College of Science \| Scientists Narrow the Time Limits for the Human and Chimpanzee Split
		Chimpanzees diverged from humans only 5-7 million years ago according to a newly released study of gene sequences.
		Gene studies are needed to address this problem because the interpretation of the earliest fossils of humans at the ape/human boundary are controversial and because almost no fossils of chimpanzees have been discovered.
		This time is consistent with the findings of several research groups that have used the molecular-clock method to estimate the split of humans and chimpanzees since the first attempt in 1967.
	www.science.psu.edu /alert/HedgesWalker12-2005.htm (970 words)

	Biosphere: How Life Alters Climate
		An especially thought-provoking calculation showed that a huge reservoir of carbon was frozen in the deep permafrost layers of peat that underlay northern tundras — perhaps half as much carbon as in all the world's tropical forests and jungles.
		A 1998 review estimated that overall, humanity was emitting seven billion metric tonnes of carbon each year by burning fossil fuels and another one or two by clearing tropical forests.
		Adding to awareness of long-term human impacts was a study arguing persuasively that agriculture had been altering climate for thousands of years, averting some cooling through emissions of CO and methane: Ruddiman (2005).
	www.aip.org /history/climate/biota.htm (9059 words)

	Lovearth.net - The State Of The World? It Is On The Brink Of Disaster by Steve Connor
		The dryland regions of the world, which account for 41 per cent of the earth's land surface, have been particularly badly damaged and yet this is where the human population has grown most rapidly during the 1990s.
		In summary, the scientists concluded that the planet had been substantially "re-engineered" in the latter half of the 20th century because of the pressure placed on the earth's natural resources by the growing demands of a larger human population.
		The distribution of species across the world is becoming more homogenous as some unique animals and plants die out and other, alien species are introduced into areas in which they would not normally live, often with devastating impact.
	www.lovearth.net /theworldonthebrinkofdisaster.htm (2138 words)

	SENS: Timeframe for progress in life extension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		This is the second major SENS milestone, and it can reasonably be defined as the arrival of therapies that confer a postponement and repair of human aging proportional to that described for mice in milestone 1, i.e.
		This exponential relationship between age and mortality rate was noticed about 180 years ago and is phenomenally constant across all human populations ever examined -- both in the sense that there is an exponential relationship, and in the exponent of that relationship.
		Monkeys save the day, because they are (a) fabulously similar to us, (b) unable to speak, which means that given sufficient biomedical imperative we don't mind putting their lives at risk, and (c) prone to age at least twice as fast as us.
	www.gen.cam.ac.uk /sens/time.htm (2762 words)

	List of time periods - Wikinfo
		It is used to consider events noticeable on a universal scale, such as the formation of matter, stars, and galaxies.
		The "human" timescale covers the time that humans have existed, usually taken to be from about 250,000 years ago - when Homo Sapiens began to develop.
		Human prehistory is usually divided by stages in development.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=List_of_time_periods (1525 words)

	Eating Fossil Fuels: Industrial Agriculture and Energy Consumption
		The process of âpestâ displacement and appropriation for agriculture accelerated with the industrial revolution as the mechanization of agriculture hastened the clearing and tilling of land and augmented the amount of farmland which could be tended by one person.
		However, on a human timescale, fossil fuels are nonrenewable.
		It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of scientific, environmental, economic, social justice and human rights issues etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
	www.organicconsumers.org /corp/fossil-fuels.cfm (4249 words)

	Hedges Lab Research
		A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land.
		Our estimate of the divergence time between humans and chimpanzees (4.5-6.5 Ma) is compatible with most interpretations of the hominoid fossil record, but suggests that some traits of humans, such as bipedalism, evolved relatively quickly.
		Human and ape molecular clocks and constraints on paleontological hypotheses.
	evo.bio.psu.edu /hedgeslab/Research.htm (1274 words)

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		This TIMESCALE of re/generation clearly places soil outside the human TIMESCALE of action and thus beyond the range of what meaningfully could be called a renewable resource.
		Human activity contributes to soil degradation at all these levels.
		This means, as we draw from these ancient sources of clean water, we deplete what is in terms of the human TIME scale a non-renewable resource and we replace this ancient clean water not just with younger but with potentially polluted water.
	www.cf.ac.uk /socsi/foodtime/briefsw.html (1388 words)

	The Brights' Movement Forums -> Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		I am quite sure that the only reason humans have been able to reproduce at such an alarming rate is because of their technology.
		If humans continue to use oil as their primary fuel source there will come a time when it is to expensive to extract oil for plastic production.
		The humans who survive will be lucky if they return to the dark age; they are more likely to be plunged into a new stone age.
	www.the-brights.net /forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=41748 (3101 words)

	Handprint : Ancestral Lines
		Human evolution is a puzzle made up of thousands of fossil pieces, and the Chart of Human Evolution (below) shows the major pieces of that puzzle arranged in a likely solution — certainly not the only possible solution.
		The term "hominid" refers to members of the biological human family Hominidae: living humans, all human ancestors, and the many extinct members of Australopithecus.
		The major Ice Age epochs in recent human experience were [1] the Wisconsin, 11,000-35,000 years ago (the most extreme of recent coolings), and [2] the Illinoian, 130,000-190,000 years ago, with an intermediate ice era around 60,000-70,000 years ago.
	www.handprint.com /LS/ANC/evol.html (691 words)

	Signs of the Times - 2005-03-30
		Most human beings are still ruled by fear, hunger and sex in states of misery and chaos.
		In other words, humanity is being set up to be batteries to fuel an “event” that the Entropic forces hope will result in their aims of being masters of the planet in 4th Density.
		Only human beings on the verge of true spiritual ascension are capable of ensuring the transmission of these energies in sufficient quality and quantity.
	signs-of-the-times.org /signs/signs20050330.htm (11590 words)

	Eating Fossil Fuels \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		Human population grew by displacing everything else and appropriating more and more of the available solar energy.
		The need to expand agricultural production was one of the motive causes behind most of the wars in recorded history, along with expansion of the energy base (and agricultural production is truly an essential portion of the energy base).
		In their refined study, Giampietro and Pimentel found that 10 kcal of exosomatic energy are required to produce 1 kcal of food delivered to the consumer in the U.S. food system.
	www.energybulletin.net /281.html (4219 words)

	RealClimate » How do we know that recent CO2 increases are due to human activities? Comment savons-nous que ...
		One way that we know that human activities are responsible for the increased CO is simply by looking at historical records of human activities.
		The roughly 500 billion metric tons of carbon we have produced is enough to have raised the atmospheric concentration of CO to nearly 500 ppm.
		The concensus that humans are responsible for all of the rise seems to be intuitive rather than scientific.
	www.realclimate.org /index.php/archives/2004/12/how-do-we-know-that-recent-cosub2sub-increases-are-due-to-human-activities-updated (2988 words)

	List of themed timelines: List of time periods
		It is used to consider the formation and change of the Earth itself, and large-scale changes in the planet's inhabitants.
		Human time periods The "human" timescale covers the time that humans have existed, usually taken to be from about 250,000 years ago - when Homo Sapiens began to develop.
		It is broadly divided into prehistorical (before history began to be recorded) and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).
	www.americanfactfinders.com /People.shtml (266 words)

	Past Peak: On The Cusp Of Disaster
		We can reverse the degradation of many ecosystem services over the next 50 years, but the changes in policy and practice required are substantial and not currently under way," he said.
		The "tipping points to catastrophe" identified by the article include: 1) new diseases rapidly disseminated via global travel and trade, 2) introduction of alien, invasive species into ecosystems, 3) algae blooms caused by overuse of fertilizers, 4) coral reef collapse caused by algae blooms, 5) depletion of world fisheries, 6) global climate change.
		The ultimate source of danger for humanity is that it is impossible to sustain exponential growth in a finite world, and when growth is exponential, limits arrive suddenly.
	www.pastpeak.com /archives/2005/03/on_the_cusp_of.htm (1230 words)

	mca-adiabatic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		This is the basic warrant for the buffering or filtering effect between non-adjacent levels in the timescale hierarchy, and therefore for the usefulness of defining timescales as being distinct from one another in the first place.
		Closer to home, fast molecular and atomic processes within the human body do not play a role in our much slower biochemistry, nor can we decipher speech presented to us more rapidly than the maximum rate at which our neurons can respond and process the signals.
		Moreover, and this goes beyond and adds to the separability of timescales guaranteed by the adiabatic principle, we are buffered from fast, small-scale events, like ionization of individual atoms in our bodies or even errors in gene transcription, by longer term regulatory and self-correcting processes typical of the intermediate scales of autopoietic or self-organizing systems.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jaylemke/webs/time/mca-adiabatic.htm (485 words)

	JimSalmon.com - Home Repair Clinic Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Renewable energy is energy from a source which is not subject to depletion in a human timescale.
		Renewable energy may be used directly (as in solar ovens, geothermal heat pumps, and windmills) or be used to generate electricity or create fuels such as ethanol.
		Solar energy's main human application has been in agriculture and forestry, via photosynthesis, but increasingly it is harnessed for heat and electricity.
	www.jimsalmon.com /clinic.cfm?goget=2036&st=1 (194 words)

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