October 1st, 2009 | 
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• Sell democracy by showing that it works better sustainably, not that it has bigger bombs.
• Niche-network layer-multiplicity may be used to measure how well social-systems work.
• Like available-work & species-diversity, layer-multiplicity measures complexity in the standing crop of correlated-subsystems.
• Values that evolve to support correlations looking in/out from skin, family & culture can do for us what DNA does for multi-celled lifeforms.
• How do you balance the doctor, mentor, parent, community-leader, cultural-guardian & scholar-scientist inside you?
• Finding access for everyone to all 6 niche-types could power unity across region, belief, & expertise lines.
• Tracking the impact of disasters, policies, and tax-support on folks’ ability to shoulder responsibility in all six layers could be both fun and healthy.
• This challenge also provides a rational basis for working together across regional-community, belief-system, and professional boundaries.
• Name two groups who distrust one another, and this platform provides a context for them to work together.
• The one-layer focus of right/left & religious extremism on politics/profession or culture may increase as we move past the peak in free-energy/capita.
• Layer-multiplicity information includes no data on what’s-connected-to-what.
• This project has deep cross-disciplinary roots in math as well as the physical and life sciences, about which more e.g. in Complexity 13:6(2008)29-39 (http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0603068).
Objective: Develop tools to assess and apply information on layer-multiplicity, using web-resources not directly available to NSF, NIH and DARPA to catalyze involvement by citizens and teachers across the globe in stabilizing the structure of both human and non-human communities.
• How can we make the most of it?
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