Dr Jeremy Horne is President-emeritus of the Southwest Area Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: AAAS. He currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Inventors Assistance League, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping independent inventors bring their creations to fruition. He is doing research and writing in the areas of Logic as the language of innate order in the universe, which is an ongoing 40 year project.
Dr Horne taught many courses in political science and technology, delivered many presentations on the philosophy of scientific methods for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Quantum Mind conferences, has been reviewer for various journals about the structure and process in binary space, consciousness studies, systems, theory, and philosophy of science, and Documentation Systems Developer, for White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. His most recent publication consists of two chapters on the philosophy of binary logic and artificial minds in Research and Applications in Global Supercomputing, released by IGI Global Press March 2015.
Dr. Horne is member of several professional organizations such as The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS, the World’s largest general scientific society) where he was President of its Southwest Area Division; Bioelectromagnetics Society; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers where he is a voting member of Fiber Optic Technical Advisory Group.
Dr. Jeremy Horne earned his Ph. D. in Philosophy at University of Florida, Gainesville; His Master of Science in Political Science at New Haven, CT, and his Bachelor in Art in International Relation at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, He has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, National Academic Honor Society, and his name was included in several Who's Who directories.
We academics may not realize that we are a privileged lot. We often assume literacy, intelligence, and a “normal” level of critical thinking. A reality check is in order, given statistics that show 50% of the US population is reading below the 8th grade level. All about us, events seem to be confirm that traditional and acceptable ways of coping with world problems are breaking down, largely because of the population quality, one that is not sufficient to meet today's social needs. Academics often have been accused of only residing in “ivory towers”, far away from the unwashed and untutored. Scholars have been both on dark sides (Nazi Germany, being an example) and more enlightened ones (mainly in science) in creating and sustaining social systems. Until modern times (starting in the mid-19th century, with the onrush of globalization), serious social problems could be contained, their effects being minimized to a local area. Since the US Civil War, World War I, and surely World War II, just about any event involving more than two countries reverberates worldwide. Worldwide stability cannot tolerate a country's leadership fraught with substandard capacities. Increased planetary interdependence illustrates rising complexity. Yet, this dynamic organic system is not healthy.
Academics throughout history have been charged with solving social problems, but the ambient complexity may have exceeded our ability to manage it. Traditionally, even the experts have had to create tools to aid them in problem solving, and the current situation is no exception. Not only are interdisciplinary efforts desirable, they are requisite for any solution that is purported to meet heterogeneous needs. Artificial intelligence to date has been largely confined to individual problems (“THE” brain, a specific application, etc.).
However, in light of the need to meet social complexity and our apparent native inability to manage it, again, we may have to create a tool to do so, in effect, reinventing ourselves. Here, I introduce a new highly interdisciplinary approach – arguably a totality of disciplines, socio-intelligence. This presentation, followed by publications (some scheduled to be released in 2017), will elaborate.