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Wonderful call finishing a year of reading Aristotle w/ members of the Reading Odyssey. Hard 2 believe it was a joyous experience?
6:31 PM Dec 1st
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Ekman: Chaps 3 & 4 of Darwin's "Descent of Man" - Darwin's greatest *unread* book.
4:36 PM Nov 24th
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Deacon: maybe it's relaxation of natural selection that accounts for complexity. wow. .
4:36 PM Nov 24th
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Deacon: we are not just an ape w/a language box. we are changed by the change we bring to the world.
4:32 PM Nov 24th
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Deacon: spontaneous self-organizing effects. fibonacci spirals create gr8 design 4 plants.
4:14 PM Nov 24th
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Deacon: lucky accident is not enough to explain complexity in world. it's bio equivalent of crediting miracle.
4:10 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Deacon - why is it so hard to understand Darwinian natural selection?
4:03 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Ekman new book on how matter became consciousness.
3:58 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Ekman now introduces Terrence Deacon. Book on symbolic species, coevoluation lanaguage & brain.
3:58 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Edelman - at the stage where we can ask the outrageous question - can we create consciousness?
3:56 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Edelman - every act of memory is an act of imagination. we are not machines.
3:55 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Edelman - how natural selection creates consciousness through "neuronal group selection"
3:55 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Edleman - quick lecture on neural development and why it is NOT a computer.
3:31 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Edelman - biologists taking the brain away from philosophers.
3:26 PM Nov 24th
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Dr. Edelman, Nobel Prize winner, has begun. 1st reqmt of selection systems: "generator of diversity" (GOD)
3:21 PM Nov 24th
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Dickens "Tale of Two Cities" competed with Darwin's Origin of Species - both popular and published the same year.
3:18 PM Nov 24th
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The webcast is beginning - you can still join us - and the host, Paul Eckman (just publ. a book with Dalai Lama on emotion).
3:08 PM Nov 24th
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Crowd is filling up hre @ NY Academy of Sciences - Edelman, Deacon & Ekman - gr8 scientists. Join:
2:53 PM Nov 24th
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NY Academy of Science - final Darwin150 free webcast 2nite at 6pm ET. Still spots 2 register & join us:
2:04 PM Nov 24th
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Q&A from India, Venezuela, U.S. and around the world for Prof. Carroll
6:27 PM Nov 4th
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- Name Phil Terry
- Location Brooklyn
- Web http://www.creati...
- Bio Love good books, food, art, tech, movies & bad TV; Founder: Councils, Reading Odyssey, Darwin Facebook campaign, Slow Art; Creative Good CEO, Brooklyn-based
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