Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Harlow Shapley was an early twentieth-century astronomer and prominent popularizer of cosmic evolution—the idea that humans and all matter emerge from universal physical and evolutionary processes. In the course readings, he appears as a foundational figure who bridged scientific discovery and public philosophy, notably articulating the concept that "mankind is made of star stuff" as early as 1963, a framing that integrates human existence into a materialist cosmology relevant to understanding how systems thinking and cybernetic perspectives emerged from astronomy.

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Steven J. Dick

Cosmic Evolution from Cosmos and Culture

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Thus, cosmic biological evolution first had the potential to become a research program in the early 1960s when its cognitive elements had developed enough to become experimental and observational sciences, and when the researchers in these …As Palmeri also points out in Chapter 15 of this volume, in the 1950s and 1960s Harlow Shapley was a prime example of a cosmic evolution evangelist from the astronomical side, being among the first to popularize the cosmic evolutionary pers…Finally, cosmic evolution integrates humans into the cosmos quite literally by teaching us that we are all “star stuff.” Once again, Harlow Shapley was an early proponent of this perspective. “Mankind is made of star stuff,” he wrote alread…

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