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 resides in San Felipe, Baja, California (Mexico) 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 are caught in our own mindsets, living in a fishbowl and reveling in our own name of homo sapiens sapiens (“wise man” - now “wise human”), that second “sapiens” as an added emphasis by those possibly disturbed by the emerging romantic era. Perhaps we were getting a bit too close to nature. In preserving the best traditions of the Age of Reason humans had to be the dominant species. Philosophers and mathematicians have sought a universal language of expression, a way of naming and ultimately formalizing our own world of reason, where humans, themselves were the inventions of their god. This naming of our animal selves as the intelligent species has provided us only with solipsistic understanding of the Universe. In the 1950s movie The Day the Earth Stood Still aliens came down to show us the way to peace, something that humanity did not really "get" (and still doesn't). So, we see a system in which an invention (ourselves, as what many see as God's novelty) is supposed to survive (nature as the measure of innovation), but our current survival status may be the proverbial "canary in the mine", the aliens wondering whether humans should exist at all in terms as useful beings. Here, we reflect on what constitutes “utility”, an issue raised in the movie District 9. How we as inventions fare as innovations is an instantiation of a larger systems problem. We are in our own ostensibly closed and deductive world, seeing only ourselves through our own bias. One may ask whether we are all that innovative (utile), given the state of the planet after thousands of years. Surely, Mother Nature may not see us as useful. Innovation is the test of whether the invention is viable, and if the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock is any indication homo sapiens sapiens will remain only an invention.
