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RIP EO Wilson - Human nature is such that we will probably know for sure very soon. That prospect is what makes future scholarship that connects the great branches of learning -- NSH--so very exciting and worthwhile.

Consilience Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard, presents the annual John M. Prather Lecture in Biolog...

The memory of water. A good weekend read. "My own conviction is that it remains to be shown there is a phenomenon to be explained"

The memory of water : Nature News Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop

George Carlin | Top 10 Rules

I QUIT Everything, and DECIDED to BE a STAR! | George Carlin | Top 10 Rules He was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic and author.He's widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians.He...

New ideas are struggling to emerge from the sea of science

New ideas are struggling to emerge from the sea of science A flood of scientific papers may be paradoxically preventing new ideas from advancing.

The social nature of animals is an extension of the sociality seen at lower rungs of the ladder - may be at the level of an atom.

‘Social’ Mitochondria, Whispering Between Cells, Influence Health | Quanta Magazine Mitochondria appear to communicate and cooperate with one another, both within and between cells. Biologists are only just beginning to understand how and why.

The Laws of Human Nature | Robert Greene

The Laws of Human Nature | Robert Greene | Talks at Google Robert Greene returns to Google to explore his latest and most monumental work yet, "The Laws of Human Nature". In the talk, Robert discusses how to detach f...

A summary of The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser.
Our perception of what is real evolves with the instruments we use to probe Nature. Gradually, some of what was unknown becomes known.

Answers to questions like Why do the rules operate that way? and Should I do it? are not really questions of scientific nature — they are moral, human questions, if they are knowable at all.

The Island of Knowledge: Science and the Meaning of Life “We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”

I’m talking about science as part of a much grander and older sort of questioning about who we are in the big picture of the universe.
The Island of Knowledge. Knowledge advances, yes? But it’s surrounded by this ocean of the unknown. The paradox of knowledge is that as it expands and the boundary between the known and the unknown changes, you inevitably start to ask questions that you couldn’t even ask before.

Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief

Antonio Damasio - Feeling and Consciousness
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/books/i-feel-therefore-i-am.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrelFkDYls

I Feel, Therefore I Am (Published 2003) Dr Antonio Damasio book Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain defends Dutch philospher Spinoza's early theories on links between brain, reasoning and human emotion; photos (M)

Thermodynamics, Atoms, and Citizenship
by Bernhardt L. Trout:

Bernhardt L. Trout: Thermodynamics, Atoms, and Citizenship Feb. 5, 2021, 12 p.m.

The End of Social Science as We Know it | Brian Epstein |

The End of Social Science as We Know it | Brian Epstein | TEDxStanford Philosopher Brian Epstein warns that without significant changes, social sciences as we know it will become irrelevant and obsolete. His research on the meta...

In his work, Gilbert suggests that there is an alternative non-random force of evolution, which acts synergistically with natural selection and leads to the increased innovativeness, or advancement, of life with time.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/pp-nrt120720.php
https://rethinkingecology.pensoft.net/article/58518/

Natural reward theory could provide new foundation for biology Major trends of evolution, including the increase of complexity, command over resources, and innovativeness, have remained difficult to reconcile with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. A new paper by Owen Gilbert (University of Texas), and published in the open-access, peer-reviewed...