According to Karl Popper, widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science in
the 20th century, falsifiability is the primary characteristic that distinguishes scientific
theories from ideologies – or dogma. For example, for people who argue that schools
should treat creationism as a scientific theory, comparable to modern theories of evolution,
advocates of creationism would need to become engaged in the generation of falsifiable
hypothesis, and would need to abandon the practice of discouraging questioning and
inquiry. Ironically, scientific theories themselves are accepted or rejected based on a
principle that might be called survival of the fittest. So, for healthy theories on
development to occur, four Darwinian functions should function: (a) variation – avoid
orthodoxy and encourage divergent thinking, (b) selection – submit all assumptions and
innovations to rigorous testing, (c) diffusion – encourage the shareability of new and/or
viable ways of thinking, and (d) accumulation – encourage the reuseability of viable
aspects of productive innovations
To hear Musk tell it, Neuralink's hardware is either a state-of-the-art tool for understanding the brain, a clinical advance for people with neurological disorders, or the next step in human evolution
Tony Robinson, Pressenza, 31.3. on the book "At the Crossroads of Humanity’s Future- The steps towards the Universal Human Nation"
By Guillermo Sullings
As covid-19 sweeps the planet having seemingly been reduced to manageable numbers in China, governments and world leaders are struggling to come to terms
2011. "These days at the I.B.M. Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., there is not a lot of talk of reverse-engineering the brain. Wide-ranging ambitions that narrow over time, Dr. Modha explained, are part of research and discovery, even if his earlier rhetoric was inflated or misunderstood.
“Deciding what not to do is just as important as deciding what to do,” Dr. Modha said. “We’re not trying to replicate the brain. That’s impossible. We don’t know how the brain works, really.” "
“chip-first as an organizing principle gave us a coherent plan.”
"In designing chips that bear some structural resemblance to the brain, so-called neuromorphic chips, neuroscience was a guiding principle as well. Brains are low-power, nimble computing mechanisms — real-world proof that it is possible."
Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology Ron Amundson Philosophy of Science, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 556-578 developmental constraints
Milieu intérieur is the key process with which Bernard is associated. He wrote, "La fixité du milieu intérieur est la condition d'une vie libre et indépendante" [...] This is still the underlying principle of homeostasis today. [...] curare [...] Berna
TED Talk 2008. "Humans are the Pandoran species" The evolutionary algorithm (principle) of universal Darwinism. "The best idea that anybody ever had" . Explains all design. Variation, selection, heredity. Necessity. Dawkins on the selfish gene: Inform
By ORVILLE SCHELL [director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society] Published: December 10, 2010 Morris "He shows us how different empires were boosted by periods of “axial thought” to surge up the development ladder, only to crumble up
by Cameron Woodhead [a senior theatre critic for The Age newspaper], publ in The Australian 19 Feb, 2011 ""Stanford ... scholarly conflict ... in the anthropology department, between proponents of ‘social evolution’, who thought science-based measurement
Gunnar Fredriksson: "I Francis Fukuyamas succé "The End of History" existerar inga palestinier. I Samuel P. Huntington likaledes framgångsrika "The Clash of Cvilizations" förekommer de som ett hot mot Israel. I en aktuell och prisad bok av historikern Nia
Mikael Gewers anmälan av Frans de Waal: Empatins tidsålder – hur naturen lär oss skapa ett humanare samhälle i översättning av Bo Gustavsson (Karneval förlag)
av Anna Rotkirch Utkommit i Kontur 5/02, Ny Tid, 10.12.2002 "Vår okändaste finlandssvenska kändis? Jag tippar på Ullica Segerstråle, sociologen som de senaste tjugofem åren föjt med forskarnas debatter om gener, evolution och människans natur. För två år sedan publicerade Oxford University Press hennes digra bokslut, Defenders of the Truth - the Sociobiology Debate. Utomlands har den ivrigt kommenterats av de olika lägren. I Finland har boken också figurerat, men mest verkar den ha lästs av den handfull forskare, biologer och journalister som redan tidigare övertygats om att människans evolution har något med våra liv att göra."
Memoreringstekniken har gått från högaktad konst till nördstämplat partytrick. Men kanske är ars memorativa på väg att lyftas ur glömskan. Den amerikanske journalisten och författaren Joshua Foer är en av dem som har återupptäckt antikens minnespalats.
L'utopia tranquilla delle piante, watch the video-conference live from Genova! Prof. Mancuso speaks about plants in Genova Watch the video here: http://www.festivalscienzalive.it/site/home/conferenze/utopia-tranquilla-delle-piante.html 02/11/2011
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, May 01, 1999 "One straight forward example of what paleopathologists have learned from skeletons concerns historical changes in height. Skeletons from Greece and Turkey show that the average height of hunger[sic!]-gatherers toward the end of the ice ages was a generous 5' 9'' for men, 5' 5'' for women. With the adoption of agriculture, height crashed, and by 3000 B. C. had reached a low of only 5' 3'' for men, 5' for women. By classical times heights were very slowly on the rise again, but modern Greeks and Turks have still not regained the average height of their distant ancestors." "Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting life style in human history. In contrast, we're still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it's unclear whether we can solve it."
"As we survey this vast mass of popular fiction, hastily produced and voraciously devoured, we confess to a feeling of astonishment that no learned professor has written a book on the one serious omission in the Darwinian theory — the fact that what chiefly distinguishes man from the rest of creation is the faculty for telling stories. Many animals resort to deception from necessity, and act a lie to trap their dinner or to save their skins ; man alone tells stories for pleasure and profit. Great is the truth, and it shall prevail, cries the preacher ; but so conscious was the moralist of the weakness of the flesh that he had to lead up to his adage by telling one of the best stories in Hebrew literature. Man respects the truth, and generally stones the truth-teller ; but he loves and honours the maker of stories from the cradle to the tombstone. The thesis could easily be defended that man is a story-telling animal." -- A. Wyatt Tilby, "The Best-Seller Problem", The Edinburg Review: Or Critical Journal, Vol 236 No. 481 (July 1922) p 96.
Markus Långs recension av Nörretranders Homo Generosus i Niin & Näin : "Evoluutiopsykologit jättävät tutkimuksissaan elämänkohtalon ja kulttuurisesti periytyvät valmiudet huomiotta, vaikka ne vaikuttavat ihmisen käytökseen olennaisesti, ja etsivät selityksiä mieluummin esihistoriasta (mts. 57). Lieneekö tämä yksi muoto niin sanottua muinaisen kulta-ajan myyttiä: täydellisen ja eheän elämän ihanne (oma varhaislapsuus) projisoidaan kauas muinaisuuteen?"
"Starting in 2003, the scientists began teaming up in public talks in which they lay out their arguments in the form of a conversation. Filmmaker Gus Holwerda picks up this evolution as the pair take their skeptical show on the road, tangling with religious leaders, talk-show hosts and several thousand years of cultural inertia. The result is the feature-length film The Unbelievers, which had its world premiere in Toronto at the Hot Docs festival on Monday night." The Editor: "Christianity is dying, and good riddance, says Richard Dawkins "
Nuba Vision Volume 2, Issue 1, October 2002 Last year Dr Kari Eloranta, a photographer and mathematician from Finland, travelled across North East Africa recording conditions for ordinary people throughout the region. The result is Year Zero Ground Zero, a captivating book of extraordinary photographs and perceptive commentary . The following is an extract from a chapter on the Nuba (written before the cease-fire came into effect) "During the hours of waiting for the flight out an analogy strikes me. Is the Nuba struggle in a way just a rerun of the match that took place somewhere around here eons ago? One branch of the homo-tree diversified into walking in the plains and developing tools while the other continued living the old way, up in the trees. In the end the former grew more resourceful, conquered the savannah and finally finished off his brothers in the branches. Two eras, two stories, one about biological evolution, the other about cultural evolution. Monsters have prevailed before. There is no progress, just evolution. A process blind to our wishes and judgements. I cannot fault the logic yet in my gut I hope I’m dead wrong."
On July 18, 1635 (according to the old Julian calendar), English natural philosopher, architect and polymath Robert Hooke was born. He is known for his discovery of the laws of elasticity, now known as Hooke's law. Hooke did research in a remarkable variety of fields. He was one of the first men to build a Gregorian reflecting telescope and to suggest that Jupiter rotates on its access. His studies of microscopic fossils are what led him to be one of the first proponents of a theory of evolution.
On November 24, 1859, famous biologist and founder of the science of evolution Charles Darwin published his seminal treaty 'On the Origin of Species', which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
On November 14, 1797, Charles Lyell, British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day, was born. Lyell was a close friend to Charles Darwin and is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today.
On November 14, 1797, Charles Lyell, British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day, was born. Lyell was a close friend to Charles Darwin and is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today.
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Nishiyama, Tomoaki
Ankenbrand, Markus
Becker, Dirk
Forster, Frank
Freund, Matthias
Iosip, Anda
Kreuzer, Ines
Saul, Franziska
Kamida, Chiharu
Fukushima, Kenji
Shigenobu, Shuji
Tamada, Yosuke
Adamec, Lubomir
Hoshi, Yoshikazu
Ueda, Kunihiko
Winkelmann, Traud
Fuchs, Jorg
Schubert, Ingo
Schwacke, Rainer
Al-Rasheid, Khaled
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