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The Earthscore Notational System for Orchestrating Perceptual Consensus about the Natural World
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 24, Number 4, August 1991
- pp. 457-465
- Article
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Linguist Derek Bickerton argues that language may be fatal for the human species. Biologist C.H. Waddington suggests we develop a way of transmitting information based on perception, not language. This article presents the Earthscore Notational System for creating a perceptual consensus about the natural world. The system is based on the categories of the philosopher Charles Peirce, the ‘chreods’ of the topologist René Thorn and a relational circuit originated by the author. The optimal realization of the Earthscore System would be a network of television stations dedicated to monitoring the ecologies of the earth and generating sound environmental policies and practices.