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  1. Wonderful call finishing a year of reading Aristotle w/ members of the Reading Odyssey. Hard 2 believe it was a joyous experience?
  2. Ekman: Chaps 3 & 4 of Darwin's "Descent of Man" - Darwin's greatest *unread* book. #darwin150
  3. Deacon: maybe it's relaxation of natural selection that accounts for complexity. wow. #darwin150.
  4. Deacon: we are not just an ape w/a language box. we are changed by the change we bring to the world. #darwin150
  5. Deacon: spontaneous self-organizing effects. fibonacci spirals create gr8 design 4 plants. http://pic.gd/6fd48f #darwin150
  6. Deacon: lucky accident is not enough to explain complexity in world. it's bio equivalent of crediting miracle. #darwin150
  7. Dr. Deacon - why is it so hard to understand Darwinian natural selection? #darwin150
  8. Dr. Ekman new book on how matter became consciousness. #darwin150
  9. Dr. Ekman now introduces Terrence Deacon. Book on symbolic species, coevoluation lanaguage & brain. #darwin150
  10. Dr. Edelman - at the stage where we can ask the outrageous question - can we create consciousness? #darwin150
  11. Dr. Edelman - every act of memory is an act of imagination. we are not machines. #darwin150
  12. Dr. Edelman - how natural selection creates consciousness through "neuronal group selection" #darwin150
  13. Dr. Edleman - quick lecture on neural development and why it is NOT a computer. #darwin150
  14. Dr. Edelman - biologists taking the brain away from philosophers. #darwin150
  15. Dr. Edelman, Nobel Prize winner, has begun. 1st reqmt of selection systems: "generator of diversity" (GOD) #darwin150
  16. Dickens "Tale of Two Cities" competed with Darwin's Origin of Species - both popular and published the same year. #darwin150
  17. The webcast is beginning - you can still join us - and the host, Paul Eckman (just publ. a book with Dalai Lama on emotion). #darwin150
  18. Crowd is filling up hre @ NY Academy of Sciences - Edelman, Deacon & Ekman - gr8 scientists. Join: http://bit.ly/8HLw8T #darwin150
  19. NY Academy of Science - final Darwin150 free webcast 2nite at 6pm ET. Still spots 2 register & join us: http://bit.ly/8HLw8T #darwin150
  20. Q&A from India, Venezuela, U.S. and around the world for Prof. Carroll #darwin150