Bibliographic record
Abstract
The title of the Pope's new encyclical, Laudato Si' (Praise Be to You), dated May 24, 2015, and published in eight languages on June 18, is an Umbrian phrase from the famous religious song "Canticle of the Sun" by Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology.The encyclical's subtitle, "On Care for our Common Home," refers to the Earth as oikos ("home"), the Greek root of the word "ecology," while caring is a practice characteristic of the liberation theology of Latin America.The text of the Papal encyclical, one year in the making and written with the help of a large team of theologians, philosophers, and scientists, reveals not only the great moral authority of Pope Francis, but also his complete familiarity with many concepts and ideas in contemporary science.During the last thirty years, a new conception of life has emerged at the forefront of sciencea unifying view that integrates life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions.At the very core of this new understanding of life we find a profound change of metaphors: from seeing the world as a machine to understanding it as a network.This new science of life is now being developed by outstanding researchers and their teams around the world.Their concepts and ideas are integrated into a grand synthesis in The Systems View of Life, a textbook I coauthored with Pier Luigi Luisi and which was published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press.We call the new conception of life a "systems view" because it involves a new kind of thinking -thinking in terms of connectedness, relationships, patterns, and context.In science, this way of thinking is known as "systems thinking," or "systemic thinking," because it is crucial to understanding living systems of any kind -living organisms, social systems, or ecosystems.The systems view of life will be the conceptual basis of my analysis of the Pope's encyclical in this essay.I will show that the radical ethics championed by Pope Francis, expressed sometimes, but not always, in theological language, is essentially the ethics of deep ecology, the philosophical school founded by Arne Naess in the 1970s.I will also show with many examples that Pope Francis reveals himself in Laudato Si' as a truly systemic thinker.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".