The InteLnet is an experimental site for the communication
of creative minds, and an intellectual response to the challenge of the
expanding electronic universe.
HAMANGIA THINKER(S)
Statuary group, moulded in loam, discovered in a grave
from the Neolithic necropole Cernavoda (Romania) belonging to the Hamangia
civilisation, approximately 5000-3000 BC. Masterpiece with a world-wide
value of the Neolithic art. Anticipates with at least 5 thousands years
the thinker of Auguste Rodin, 1880, symbolizing the creative force of the
human thinking.
THE BANK OF NEW IDEAS IS OPEN FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS
The InteLnet was created and constructed by Mikhail
N. Epstein (Associate Professor, Emory University) who is the author
of the project and of all introductory and explanatory texts on this interactive
megasite. The InteLnet was opened on July 1, 1995. In the first year (July
1995-July 1996), InteLnet was maintained with the technical assistance
of then Emory student Daniel Abrams.
The InteLnet has received the Creativity Social Innovations Award
1995 from the Institute
for Social Inventions (London, Great Britain) as one of "the most imaginative,
feasible and potentially transformative schemes." See full citation here.
I.The Bank of New Ideas. Though there are no legal forms for the
patenting of non-technological ideas, the Bank suggests the approximation
of this procedure by recording the date of submission. The submissions
should be limited to 2-4 pages, with possible references to more detailed
sources. What is expected are unexpected ideas capable of creating their
own field of knowledge and becoming foundations for new theories and/or
practices. Such thinking can be called "paradigmatic" since it does not
add a new element to the existing paradigm of thinking but instead creates
the paradigm itself. The ideas of new disciplines, research methods, artistic
styles, behavorial practices, social organizations, philosophical systems,
spiritual movements, ultimate truths and possible worlds are especially
encouraged.
II. ThinkLinks. This branch is designed to establish intellectual
links among the remote and seemingly unrelated spheres of knowledge. ThinkLinks
is a meta-space on the Internet where all other cyberspaces (subjects,
areas, disciplines) penetrate each other.
There is also a space for
APHORISMS where you can submit short sentences and witticisms of your
own invention. Here is the
window for your submission.
Your
comments and suggestions on the Intelnet and its branches are highly appreciated
