The final exam will be all multiple choice, no essay questions. It will cover the entire semester, focusing on general principles rather than details. The point is to spend some time thinking about how everything we have discussed fits together. Some of the questions will be similar or even identical to those on the first two exams. Some key points to review are:

1. How can the concept of evolution be applied to a wide range of phenomena? Give some examples.
2. How can the concept of self-organization be applied to a wide range of phenomena? Give some examples.
3. What is meant by consilience? Give some examples.
4. What are some ways in which philosophy and religion are consilient with the hard sciences? Give some examples.
5. What are some of the ways in which the social and physical sciences are consilient? Give some examples.
6. How does the WebMind software parallel the organization of the human brain? I do not mean element by element, I mean in its overall structure.
7. What is the difference between recursive, evolutionary and neural net algorithms?
8. What is the Turing Test?
9. How is the Internet likely to change the world economy? Give some examples.
10. What is the difference between hierarchy and network (or heterarchy)? Give some examples.
11. What does autopoiesis mean and what are some examples?
12. What are the characteristics of the numerical archetypes, and what are some examples from different areas such as chemistry, theology, group dynamics, etc.?
13. What is meant by evolutionary convergence? What is an example?
14. What did Karl Jung mean by the term "archetype" and what are some examples?
15. What was Buckminster Fuller's known for?
16. What are the stages of group development? How are these consilient with Peirce's numerical archetypes?
17. How is the Web used for business-to-business communication?
18. What is the effect of presentation software on our public speaking?
19. What are the latest economic findings on computerization and productivity?
20. What changes is the Internet making on the bookselling business?
21. How is Saudi Arabia attempting to control the impact of the Internet on its society?
22. How are computers changing the field of architecture?
23. What is "open-source" software? Why do some people favor it?
24. What is intelligence? In what sense could computers be intelligent?
25. What is meant by the terms "chaos" and "complex systems." What are some of the ways in which complex systems differ from simpler systems?
26. What is an "attractor"? What are some examples?
27. In what ways does complex systems thinking parallel religious thought? In what ways does it parallel scientific thought?
28. What are some of the similarities between religious and scientific accounts of creation?
29. How has the history of the computer industry differed from other major industries such as agriculture, mining, automobiles, energy, etc?
30. How does quantum mechanics differ from traditional mechanics?
31. What are the essential elements of the "psynet" model of mind?
32. How does Chomsky's theory of language differ fundamentally from the ideas of Sapir and Whorf? Which approach is used by the WebMind software?