'Education at the Edge' keynote presentation by Melissa Sterry presented at The Women Leadership Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania on March 15th 2017. Discussing humanity's constructs of knowledge, therein intelligence, and the underlying developments in the theory of philosophy and psychology that frame the issue in the past, present, and future.

1. Education at the Edge
The power of interdiscplinary knowledge and thinking
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2. Q. What is
“knowledge”?
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Science
Practical ProductiveTheoretical
Theology Mathematics
Natural
Science
Aristotle’s Structure of human knowledge, Jonathan Barnes, 2000
Arithmetic Geometry etc. Ethics Politics etc. Art Rhetoric etc.
Metaphysics Logic etc. Biology Botany Chemistry etc.

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Objective Subjective
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forms
archetypes
categories
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Image: Cygnus X-1, NASA

8. Anthrop
ogenic
Intellige
nce
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9. Q. What is
“intelligence”?
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11. Denier
Specialist
Reversionist
Super-Simplifier
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12. * worlds within worlds -
psychological factory settings
[coping mechanisms]
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* conscious / unconscious -
editors of our own reality
[subjectivity]
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13. Your “smart”
or mine?
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14. future-
shocked
society
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15. Methodology:
interdisciplinary
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*dot to dot
epistemology:
systemic*

17. ecosyst
emic
Intellige
nce
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18. Q. What is
ecological
“intelligence”?
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19. BIOME
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20. Image: The protein interaction network, Wiki Commons
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21. #Bridges
#Not walls
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Denier
Specialist
Reversionist
Super-Simplifier
Validater
Multi-modalist
Experimentalist
Super-Complexifer

23. biome-
shocked
society
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24. Real?
Artificial?
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25. #PostTruth
#JustTruth
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26. Q. What is
“intelligence”?
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ecological

27. Interspecies insight
Range of responses
Evolve with change
Functional groups
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28. Analogy
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29. A Forest?
Image: Boeri Studio’s “vertical forest” Nguyen Tan Tin, Creative Commons [CC by 2.0]
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Image: Mycelium, Rob Hille [CC BY-SA 3.0)], Wikimedia Commons

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Pot plants
Image: Boeri Studio’s “vertical forest” Nguyen Tan Tin, Creative Commons [CC by 2.0]

32. Lessons
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*diversity
Quality, not quantity
of network*

34. *diversity
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Quality, not quantity of
knowledge*

35. Critical Thinking
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Know your…
Knowns,
Known Unknowns,
Unknown Unknowns

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Learning for life
Online courses
Salons & societies
Ongoing scholarship

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* MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
* https://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative
* http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses
* https://www.futurelearn.com
* https://www.edx.org
Free [university] courses
* https://www.ox.ac.uk/itunes-u?wssl=1
* https://www.cam.ac.uk/video-and-audio/itunes-u
* http://www.harvard.edu/itunes
* http://itunes.stanford.edu
* http://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/free-online-
learning/itunes.page
Free [university] lectures

39. Learn more…
A discussion of philosophical and psychological
dichotomies [free download] will be available
at www.melissasterry.com
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40. Thank you.
www.melissasterry.com
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