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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 13

    A different explanation of progress, from the physicist Adrian Bejan: Duke professor’s beautiful law of human progresshttp://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article208434454.html …

    4:49 AM - 13 Apr 2018
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      2. Stewart Brand‏Verified account @stewartbrand Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think the theory mistakenly confuses how physics (mechanics) works with how evolution works, misrepresenting both.

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      2. hollosi‏ @hollosi Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Adrian Bejan is a mechanical engineer, not a physicist. The constructal "law" is his self-described idea, not a physical principle. For more detailed critique please see https://evolutionnews.org/2014/07/good_grief_no_a/ … Please don't let your excellent books associated with a fallacy.

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      1. Joseph Mason‏ @mjjoe4 Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Totally conflating agency with emergence. Descriptive law is not a metaphysical entity.

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      1. The Ravina Project‏ @ravinaproject Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        It's all wonderful and getting better each day ... the rational mind at work. I'm reminded of what the turkeys say at the turkey farm. Fabulous place .. food is great and lots of friends to talk too ... and that's true right up until Thanksgiving. #goodluckwiththat

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      1. Patrick J. King‏ @acorn_pat Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        If we were striving for equilibrium, wouldn't we just die? The existence of life delays equilibrium and slows entropy of the suns energy.

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      2. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/IfSvnQkHkx

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      3. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Apr 13
        Replying to @VdlchJ @sapinker

        By choice

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      4. Dr. Niamh‏ @Briemma Apr 13
        Replying to @VdlchJ @sapinker

        This is scientism at its most dangerous and Pollyannaish. Best read Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari for truly brilliant and insightful perspectives on where we’ve come from and where we’re going. And how to avoid future catastrophes that science/technology may cause

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      5. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Apr 13
        Replying to @Briemma @sapinker

        How is it science causing catastrophes, when eating ourselves extinct is a choice

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      6. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Apr 13
        Replying to @VdlchJ @Briemma @sapinker

        Free will As long as we unnecessarily eat each other, we will ‘choose’ to go extinct in a vicious circle by needlessly eating each otherpic.twitter.com/AW8rmx0BWt

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      7. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Apr 13
        Replying to @VdlchJ @Briemma @sapinker

        30 years in evolutionary time in comparison to the billions of years it took to populate the ocean is not even a nanosecond, yet we are still fishing and eating fish by choice when it’s not necessary for survival Clearly there are other subconscious forces at workpic.twitter.com/6uJnH8O9eg

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      8. Dr. Niamh‏ @Briemma Apr 13
        Replying to @VdlchJ @sapinker

        Of course. It’s really the view of the relationship between science and progress that I’m disputing

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      1. Marcelo Errera‏ @merrera Apr 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        Meeting will be held at @VillanovaU next week http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/engineering/newsevents/NSFWorkshop.html … #constructal

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      1. Brian Kuhlman‏ @TheMoralCase Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Hmm, "different"...

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      1. Martin Lavin‏ @Real_SF Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        P. 159... vertiginous ? Really? 😁

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      1. doug lucchetti‏ @douglucchett1 Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'm hearing talk of a "Golden Age"; positive expectations bringing positive results. Cheers.

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      1. Kasia Zaton‏ @KasiaBallou Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Evolution as a law of physics: I can’t wait to see the equation.

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      1. Red Black Ties‏ @redblackties Apr 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        The theory is also used to explain the extinction of the Concorde aircraft.http://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/law-physics-helps-explain-airplane-evolution …

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