Google 10^100 project: Tracking niche-layer multiplicity

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• Sell democracy by showing not that it has bigger bombs but that it works better sustainably.

• 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?

For example, we might look for:
• NNLM changes in east Germany before & after the iron curtain,
• possible connections between NNLM & niche-responsibility failures like "corruption",
• evolving temptations to "game the system" rather than to build correlations,
• how education and "sensitivity to NNLM" variously impact career-focus among youth,
• ways that corporations caring for stock instead of products/employees reduce NNLM,
• how open-dialog informed to all 6 levels relates to an individual's NNLM,
• and what else?

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