when were the computations done to make zenobots and anthrobots, there's never been any selection pressure to be a good anthropot or a good zenobot.
for - adjacency - questioning evolution - xenobots - anthrobots - Michael Levin - Is Levin's lab experiements bringing evolution's primacy into question? Is there an even MORE fundamental foundation for life? - Is the platonic form more fundamental than evolution?
c'est au début du 20e siècle dans plusieurs pays ces mauvais traitements sont ainsi entrés dans la chaîne pénale et plus précisément dans le domaine judiciaire ils vont connaître trois redéfinitions 00:11:33 ultérieures qui sans les extraire du cadre de la loi les inscrivent également dans d'autres espaces celui de la médecine avec le syndrome de l'enfant battu d'abord celui de la santé publique 00:11:46 avec la caractérisation de la maltraitance infantile ensuite celui de la traumatologie psychologique avec la reconnaissance des abus sexuels
dans le département des Alpes en 2017 1243 jeunes ce disant mineurs ont été évalués et 00:55:03 575 soit 46 % ont effectivement été reconnus tel mais 2 ans plus tard alors qu'il n'y avait pourtant plus que 621 dossiers examinés soit la moitié de 00:55:16 2017 seul 26 soit 4 % se sont vu attribuer le le statut protecteur cette politique drastique de de déminorisation instaurée par le Conseil départemental condamnait presque 00:55:30 systématiquement tous ces garçons à une vie de précarité d'érrance d'exposition à des risques bien documentés de violence d'addiction et de prostitution
l'exception dont les mineurs peuvent 00:59:59 théoriquement se prévaloir au regard de la loi du fait de leur vulnérabilité est donc elle même vulnérable à des politiques qui demandent plus de sévérité à l'encontre des délinquants ou des 01:00:11 étrangers
c'est que indépendamment de la réalité statistique pénale concernant les mineurs la délinquence juvénile demeure un sujet qui suscite des réactions de 00:50:30 panique morale et excite la propension à la sévérité la tension entre protection et punition est dèslors un trait récurrent de la justice pénale des mineurs et dans le mouvement de balancier qui se manifeste au fil des 00:50:44 décennies le droit s'est nettement déplacé vers la punition
à partir du milieu des 00:45:24 années 1990 la tendance inverse avec un durcissement de la législation chaque fois qu'une majorité de droite revient au pouvoir et une correction seulement partielle lorsque c'est la gauche qui 00:45:35 gouverne ainsi en 1994 on institue la rétention judiciaire autrement dit la garde à vue pour les moins de 13 ans en 1996 on permet la comparution immédiate et la comparution devant le juge des 00:45:49 enfants sans instruction préalable en 2002 on crée les centres éducatifs fermés ainsi que les établissements pénitentiaires pour mineurs et on abaisse l'âge de la responsabilité pénale de 13 à 10 ans 00:46:01 autorisant des sanctions beaucoup plus tôt dans la vie le code de la justice pénale des mineurs rétablira en fait en 2021 la limite de 13 ans en 2007 les exception 00:46:13 permettant de ne pas appliquer l'excuse de minorité pour les les mineurs de plus de 16 ans sont élargies ces dispositions seront toutefois abreugé en 2014 la pleine excuse de minorité se trouvant 00:46:25 alors rétablie en 2007 encore on supprime l'atténuation de la peine pour les mineurs de 16 ans en cas deuxèe récidif s'il commett un délit avec violence ou agression sexuelle en 00:46:38 2011 les tribunaux correctionnels pour mineurs sont créés pour juger les délits punis de plus de 3 ans d'emprisonnement en récidive par des adolescents de plus de 16 ans ils seront 00:46:50 cependant supprimé en 2016 en 2019 on permet d'appliquer au mineurs de plus de 13 la détention à domicile sous surveillance électronique progressivement ainsi avec 00:47:02 ces balancements que je vous ai indiqué le législateur érode le principe de protection de l'ordonnance de 1945 restreint les effets de la 00:47:14 présomption de non discernement et de l'excuse de minorité multiplie les lieux d'enfermement et les possibilités de peine correspondantes et rapproche la justice pénale des mineurs de la justice 00:47:27 pénale des adultes et vous aurez certainement remarqué que c'est un débat qui aujourd'hui est à nouveau sur la table
Ontogenesis is the development of the individual, during its lifetime, as opposed tophylogenesis, the development of species within geological periods.
How might we apply ontogeny vs. phylogeny in the political sphere within @Lanier2013s framing Who Owns the Future or in the personbyte/firmbyte framing of @Hidalgo2015?
In our digital revolution, we might depose an old sort ofdysfunctional center of power only to erect a new one that is equallydysfunctional. The reason is that online opposition to traditional powertends to promote new Siren Servers that in the long run are unlikely tobe any better.
it's Darwin's theory and the mathematical formulation of it that I think also says that what we're perceiving is not the truth.
for - Science/evolution/Darwin/perception/ not the truth/but only to help us succeed at reproducing
our sensory systems on Darwin's theory were not shaped to show us the truth. They were shaped to keep you alive long enough to reproduce successfully. Period. That's all Dharm's theory actually says
for - quote - Evolution shapes us not for truth, but to successfully reproduce - Donald Hoffman
regional scope
for - adjacency regional - human evolution - isolated cultures
But LHD 244 is unique in how it captures an art form evolving overa long period, and shows how it was transmitted from musician tomusician. This formal study of musical theory shows us how classicalmusic evolved out of liturgical chanting and towards the harmonicsophistication that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven would master
Baker, Erik. “Trump’s Darwinian America.” Harper’s Magazine, July 2025. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/trumps-darwinian-america-erik-baker/.
who would have known this that your tracheal epithelial cells if expplanted if if liberated from the rest of the body they will make a self motile little uh construct that among other things knows how to heal neural wounds.
for - quote - no evolutionary history explains form and behavior - Michael Levin
observation - evolution alone is insufficient to explain life - These novel, artificial life forms behave in novel emergent ways, there is no natural selection at play here
what I try to do is is kind of like what happened to the notion of numbers where we started out with very obvious very natural kinds of things and then progressively expanded them to to weirder and weirder uh other um other other concepts along you know along that same along that same continuum.
for - adjacency - cognitive spectrum - number system evolution - Michael Levin
Institute for Cultural Evolution develops policy recommendations on diverse issues, attempting to honor the central values and concerns of traditional, modern, and postmodern worldviews.
for - Institute for Cultural Evolution - new worldview - integrating values of - traditional - modern - postmodern
theBaldwin Effect suggests that learned behaviors that are adopted by a group(not simply an individual) can affect evolution’s trajectory, since those wholearn to adapt to changes in their environment live to pass on their genes.37
for - definition - Baldwin effect - learned behavior can be passed on through evolution
Deutscher explains that languages tend to shift from being morecomplex to less complex
for - language evolution - trend - simplification
In the case of email, it can be argued that the widespread use of the unhyphenated spelling has made this compound noun an exception to the rule. It might also be said that closed (unhyphenated) spelling is simply the direction English is evolving, but good luck arguing that “tshirt” is a good way to write “t-shirt.”
for - article - evolution of modernity - article - Resilience - evolution of modernity - author - Richard Heinberg - polycrisis - post carbon institute
Summary - A well thought out overview of hotter outer species arrived at our polycrisis in modernity
A stress-responsive p38 signaling axis in choanoflagellates
Review coordinated by Life Science Editors Foundation Reviewed by: Dr. Angela Andersen, Life Science Editors Foundation & Life Science Editors. Potential Conflicts of Interest: None.
PUNCHLINE: A stress-responsive p38 signaling pathway in choanoflagellates reveals deep evolutionary conservation of cellular stress adaptation mechanisms—functionally linking unicellular and multicellular stress responses.
BACKGROUND: Cells across all domains of life must sense and respond to environmental stress, and kinase signaling pathways play a critical role in mediating these responses. In animals, p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) is a well-known regulator of stress responses, cell proliferation, and differentiation. However, its evolutionary origins remain unclear. Choanoflagellates—the closest living relatives of animals—provide a unique window into the early evolution of signaling pathways before multicellularity. While previous studies have identified kinase homologs in choanoflagellates, their functional roles have been difficult to study due to limited genetic tools. This study uses high-throughput small-molecule screening and CRISPR-based gene editing in Salpingoeca rosetta to systematically dissect p38 kinase signaling in response to environmental stress.
Questions Addressed: How do kinases regulate stress responses in choanoflagellates? Can human kinase inhibitors be repurposed to probe kinase function in choanoflagellates? SUMMARY: This study functionally characterizes a stress-responsive p38 kinase pathway in choanoflagellates, demonstrating that kinase signaling in unicellular organisms plays a key role in environmental stress adaptation. Using a high-throughput screen of 1,255 human kinase inhibitors, the authors identified 95 compounds that disrupt S. rosetta proliferation. By focusing on sorafenib, a known human kinase inhibitor, they discovered that p38 kinase in S. rosetta is activated by heat shock and other stressors, revealing an ancient and conserved function for this pathway.
Key Results 1. Kinase Inhibitor Screening Identifies Regulators of S. rosetta Proliferation A comprehensive kinase inhibitor screen was conducted using 1,255 human kinase inhibitors. 95 inhibitors significantly affected S. rosetta cell growth, suggesting deep conservation of kinase function between choanoflagellates and animals. The library covered all major kinase families, and flow cytometry and imaging validated inhibitor effects.
Sorafenib Inhibits p38 Kinase and Blocks Stress-Induced Phosphorylation S. rosetta p38 kinase was identified as a sorafenib target, supporting its role in stress signaling. Heat shock increases p38 phosphorylation, but this activation is blocked by sorafenib, confirming a conserved stress-responsive pathway. p38 kinases in S. rosetta share critical catalytic residues with human p38, further supporting functional conservation.
p38 Activation is Stress-Specific and Not Required for Proliferation While p38 is activated by heat shock and oxidative stress, its inhibition does not prevent S. rosetta proliferation. CRISPR knockout of p38 (Sr-p38¹⁻¹⁵) confirmed that p38 activation is required for stress response but not cell division.
p38 Kinase Function Precedes Multicellularity The study reveals that p38’s role in stress adaptation predates animals, suggesting that stress responses were critical for early eukaryotic evolution. p38 homologs are present across choanoflagellates, reinforcing its ancient function.
STRENGTHS: Bridges a Functional Gap in Evolutionary Biology. This study moves beyond comparative genomics by functionally testing kinase signaling in a unicellular organism, shedding light on the ancestral origins of stress pathways.
High-Throughput Chemical Genetics as a Tool for Evolutionary Biology. Using human kinase inhibitors to probe choanoflagellate signaling is an innovative approach that extends the power of small-molecule screening beyond traditional model organisms.
p38 MAPK as a Conserved Stress Sensor. The discovery that choanoflagellates use p38 signaling to respond to stress suggests that stress adaptation mechanisms evolved before multicellularity—a key insight into early eukaryotic evolution.
Biomedical and Biotechnological Implications. Understanding how stress signaling evolved could have implications for drug targeting in diseases like cancer and neurodegeneration, where kinase dysregulation plays a role.
FUTURE WORK: • Does This Apply to Other Kinases? • How Does p38 Interact with Other Stress Pathways? • Do other unicellular relatives of animals use p38 for stress signaling? • How does p38 respond to other environmental stressors (e.g., salinity, bacterial signals)?
FINAL TAKEAWAY: This study functionally validates a stress-responsive p38 signaling pathway in choanoflagellates, providing compelling evidence that key elements of stress adaptation predate multicellularity. Beyond evolutionary implications, this work pioneers the use of kinase inhibitors to probe non-model organisms, opening up new avenues for studying the origins of complex cellular regulation.
an approach he calls "pragmatic naturalism," Kitcher reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core principles
Author calls it this ethics to make evolutionary social groupings work 'pragmatic naturalism'. I get those terms at first glance, but if the functioning of social structures is its aim, a term closer to relationships focused ethics, and evolution might be more telling, next to the clearly involved pragmatism. This term sounds closer to a fork of natural law ethics, which it doesn't seem to be, to indicate its early origins and evolutionary past. evolutionaryrelationalethics?
for - Geography as a driver for civilisation - cultural evolution - impact of geographic obstacles - article - The Economist - Of all the geological periods, the Triassic was the most fabulous - 2024, Dec. 19
"Biology, though, is not the Triassic’s only legacy to the modern world. For, with the breakup of Pangaea came the period’s final, Parthian shot. The mountainous region which stretches from Anatolia to Afghanistan, Parthia (as Iran, or Persia, was once known) included, began to rise in the late Triassic when a small continent now dubbed Cimmeria collided with the disintegrating supercontinent, squeezing up the seabed sediments between them.
The Cimmerian orogeny, as this mountain-building moment is called, has created a natural barrier fortress along the southern margin of what is now Earth’s largest continent, Eurasia, dividing Asia’s heartlands from Africa and Europe. This barrier—which includes the Anatolian plateau, the Iranian plateau and the mountains of Afghanistan—is difficult to pass and difficult to conquer. Together with its more recent, eastward, extension, the plateau of Tibet, it has proved to be history’s puppet-master. It has kept humanity’s three great civilisations—China, India and the Mediterranean-focused world of the Middle East, north Africa and Europe—apart, and allowed them, for good or ill, to develop separately, with (until recently) little intercourse between them."
source - shared with me via LinkedIn contact
// commennt - If humans did indeed begin in Africa and radiated out to the rest of the world over the course of time, - then once arrived in these far flung places, the travelers became isolated from the original African tribe by geological obstacles and losing any trace of their origin through vast spans of time. - It's ironic then that losing trace caused our ancestors to culturally evolve in isolation from each other - And when modern technology allowed humans to rediscover each other, the differences were so great that with cultural memory erased by time, it enabled the technologically advanced modern humans to perform extreme levels of other, exploiting and colonizing our fellow humans. - Imagine how different our world would be if we hadn't lost track of each other! What a different world we would be living in today! //
We believe that, for the first time in recorded history, human culture has produced at the least an outline of all the capacities required for us to begin to consciously direct our own cultural evolution for the better.
for - cultural evolution - first time in history we can have intentional cultural evolution towards a holistic wellbeing-based civilization - Dil Green
the only way you can visualize the vaces because they're too tiny to be visualized by standard microscopy labeling with florescent dyes is about the only way we can um easily identify what molecules have been passed down from the vesicles to The Germ cells but that's very restrictive you see because there will be millions of different molecules in a single visle to be faced with only being able to label three or four of those otherwise we can't make out the the differences is it's very tedious
for - evolution - work to identify non-DNA information passed down to germ line - millions of permutations - fluorescence technique applied to only a few at a time - tedious work - Denis Noble
even major standard evolutionary biologists will now accept epigenetic inheritance vuma has done so just last year in a review article that he published he's one of the big textbook writers uh from the modern synthesis point of view his textbook just called Evolution whole 600 pages of it um he's now accepted that we have to take in into account epigenetic inheritance in addition to the DNA inheritance
for - book - Evolution - Douglas Futuyma - to - book - Evolution - Douglas Futuyma
to - book - Evolution - Douglas Futuyma - https://hyp.is/fKWoqqilEe-9Me_ksLCQJw/global.oup.com/ushe/product/evolution-9780197619612
epigenetic inheritance of course which would be let's say rnas determining how much of a gene is expressed will be transmitted down through the germ line and and the possibility of actual new DNA being incorporated into the germ line I think both can occur
for - evolution - epigenetic AND new DNA can BOTH be incorporated into the germ line - Denis Noble
we have a huge amount of our DNA it's more than the DNA involved in protein coding that's come from viruses I mean it's clear that incorporation of new DNA from other organisms into the germ line has occurred many times uh during the process of evolution
for - evolution - viruses and other organisms - inject information into germ line throughout evolution - Denis Noble
“after greed and short-sightedness floods the commons with low-grade AI content… well-managed online communities of actual human beings [may be] the only place able to provide the sort of data tomorrow’s LLMs will need”
The value spoken of here is that of slowly building up (evolving) directed knowledge over time. The community evolves links using work and coherence into actionable information/knowledge whereas AI currently don't have an idea of leadership or direction into which to take that knowledge, so they're just creating more related information which is interpreted as "adjacent noise". Choosing a path and building off of it to create direction is where the promise lies. Of course some paths may wither and die, but the community will manage that whereas the AI would indiscriminately keep building in all directions without the value of demise within the system.
These days someone might even try to correct you if, in an attempt to note someone was being (overly) humble, you said they were self-depreciating.
But the corruption has become so common that using the original today might not only stop a conversation in its tracks but cause unpleasant face-scrunching. Per Garner, spitting image is now 23 times more commonly used than its precursor.
Have you ever said you felt nauseous? In the traditional sense that would mean you felt like you were capable of causing others to woof cookies, not that you were feeling sick to your own stomach—much along the lines of how poisonous and poisoned work.
Young people today, he says, are now dropping the “from” and simply saying they “graduated college,”
Was Hublin „biblisch geprägt“ nennt, könnte man vielleicht auch als „linear zeitlich orientiert“ bezeichnen. Er untersucht dagegen räumliche Interaktionen.
Es ist interessant, dass er Begriffe verwendet, die aus der ANT stammen könnten. Das zeigt, dass das lineare Evolutionsmodell auch in dieser Wissenschaft nicht passt.
constructal law
for - definition - constructal law - Adrian Bejan - to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature
to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature - https://hyp.is/ZRIXfo76Ee-5yZdY2quRaQ/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2871904/ - youtube explainer video - constructal theory - flow - Adrian Bejan - https://hyp.is/R7V4Yo79Ee-52gO6UYAaYQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEBTPee9ZM
Culture as the ‘genetic code’ of the next leap
for - article - The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift - Nafeez Ahmed - gene-culture coevolution - adjacency - indyweb dev - individual / collective evolutionary learning - provenance - tracing the evolution of ideas - gene-culture coevolution
adjacency - between - indyweb dev - individual / collective evolutionary learning - provenance - tracing the evolution of ideas - gene-culture coevolution - adjacency relationship - As DNA and epigenetics plays the role of transmitting biological adaptations, language and symmathesy play the role of transmitting cultural adaptations
The constructal law of design and evolution in nature
for - paper - The constructal law of design and evolution in nature - Adrian Bejan - Sylvie Lorente - 2010 - from - The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift - Nafeez Ahmed - 2024, Oct 16
from - The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift - Nafeez Ahmed - 2024, Oct 16 - https://hyp.is/Qt8IMI74Ee--f4O18QMPFQ/ageoftransformation.org/the-end-of-scarcity-from-polycrisis-to-planetary-phase-shift/
Labor, and of course we do not merely mean alienated ‘commodity’ labor in which people simply follow orders to increase the profit of some, but labor as creative activity, which transforms nature and the world, which pretty much ‘creates’ the lifeworld we live in.
for - adjacency - labour - creative force - cultural evolution - intent - emptiness
adjacency - between - Labour - cultural evolution - progress - progress trap - religion - emptiness - adjacency relationship - Labour is the result of collective agency over space and time - It is the collective effect of the motor control system of the societies of multi-cellular human INTERbeCOMings - driven by their collective intent - Losing sight of the sacred, and not understanding the saliency of emptiness, - we fall into progress traps, - of which commodified Labour is a major one
every file format it uses has been created from scratch in order to handcraft the content authoring experience.
Feels like a noble intention, but creating new formats because the existing ones are not good enough just ends up with more standards (https://xkcd.com/927/). I must say they have some neat ideas, though.
are you familiar with the concept of hyper object
for - Indyweb dev - tracking the evolution of individual / collective learning of social learning - hyperobject -example of - perspectival knowing - conversation - Micheal Levin - Jordan Hall
Comment - Both Jordan Hall and I are familiar with the concept of hyperobject but in this part of the conversation, Jordan introduced the idea to Micheal for the first time - This illustrates to me that truism that our perspectival knowledge of reality is unique - Our individual meaningverses and lebenswelt are uniquely located and situated in life - And whenever a multi meaningverse events, the ensuing conversation is collectively - consciousness expanding - expanding the - semantic fingerprint and - symmathesetic fingerprint - of all conversants
The loss of the tail is inferred to have occurred around 25 million years ago when the hominoid lineage diverged from the ancient Old World monkeys (Fig. 1a), leaving only 3–5 caudal vertebrae to form the coccyx, or tailbone, in modern humans14.
for - human evolution - loss of tail approximately 25 million years ago - identified genomic mechanism leading to loss of tail and human bipedalism - human ancestors - up to 60 Ma years ago
26:30 Brings up progress traps of this new technology
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question How do we shift our (human being's) relationship with the rest of nature
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metaphor - interspecies communications - AI can be compared to a new scientific instrument that extends our ability to see - We may discover that humanity is not the center of the universe
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Question - Dr Doolittle question - Will we be able to talk to the animals? - Wittgenstein said no - Human Umwelt is different from others - but it may very well happen
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species have culture - Marine mammals enact behavior similar to humans
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citizen science bioacoustic projects - audio moth - sound invisible to humans - ultrasonic sound - intrasonic sound - example - Amazonian river turtles have been found to have hundreds of unique vocalizations to call their baby turtles to safety out in the ocean
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ocean habitat for whales - they can communicate across the entire ocean of the earth - They tell of a story of a whale in Bermuda can communicate with a whale in Ireland
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progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - examples - examples - poachers or eco tourism can misuse
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progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - policy
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whale protection technology - Kim Davies - University of New Brunswick - aquatic drones - drones triangulate whales - ships must not get near 1,000 km of whales to avoid collision - Canadian government fines are up to 250,000 dollars for violating
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environmental regulation - overhaul for the next century - instead of - treatment, we now have the data tools for - prevention
56:40 - ecological relationship - pollinators and plants have co-evolved
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AI for interspecies communication - example - human cultural evolution controlling evolution of life on earth
if you have the cognitive abilities of something that is you know 10 to 100 times smarter than you trying to to outm smarten it it's just you know it's just not going to happen whatsoever so you've effectively lost at that point which means that 00:36:03 you're going to be able to overthrow the US government
for - AI evolution - nightmare scenario - US govt may seize Open AI assets if it arrives at superintelligence
AI evolution - projection - US govt may seize Open AI assets if it arrives at superintelligence - He makes a good point here - If Open AI, or Google achieve superintelligence that is many times more intelligent than any human, - the US government would be fearful that they could be overthrown or that the technology can be stolen and fall into the wrong hands
be able to quick Master any domain write trillions lines of code and read every research paper in every scientific field ever written
for - AI evolution - projections for capabilities by 2030
AI evolution - projections for 2030 - AI will be able to do things we cannot even conceive of now because their cognitive capabilities are orders of magnitudes faster than our own - Write billions of lines of code - Absorb every scientific paper ever written and write new ones - Gain the equivalent of billions of human equivalent years of experience
perhaps 100 million human researcher equivalents running day and night t
for - stats - AI evolution - equivalent of 100 million human researchers working 24/7
stats - AI evolution - equivalent of 100 million human researchers working 24/7 - By 2027, the industry's aim is to have tens of millions of GPU training clusters, running - millions of copies of automated AI researchers, or the equivalent of - 100 million human AI researchers working 24/7
we are on course for AGI by 2027 and that these AI 00:19:25 systems will basically be able to automate basically all all cognitive jobs think any job that can be done remotely
for - AI evolution - prediction - 2027 - all cognitive jobs can be done by AI
suppose that GPT 4 training took 3 months in 2027 a leading AI lab will be able to train a GPT 4 00:18:19 level model in a minute
for - stat - AI evolution - prediction 2027 - training time - 6 OOM decrease
stat - AI evolution - prediction 2027 - training time - 6 OOM decrease - today it takes 3 months to train GPT 4 - in 2027, it will take 1 minute - That is, 131,400 minutes vs 1 minute, or - 6 OOM
by 2027 rather than a chatbot you're going to have something that looks more like an agent and more like a coworker
for - AI evolution - prediction - 2027 - AI agent will replace AI chatbot
the inference efficiency improved by nearly three orders of magnitude or 1,000x in less than 2 years
for - stats - AI evolution - Math benchmark - 2022 to 2024
stats - AI evolution - Math benchmark - 2022 to 2024 - 50% increase in accuracy over 2 years - inference accuracy improved 1000x or 3 Orders Of Magnitude (OOM)
there is essentially this Benchmark 00:09:58 called the math benchmark a set of difficult mathematic problems from a high school math competitions and when the Benchmark was released in 2021 gpt3 only got 5%
for - stats - AI - evolution - Math benchmark
stats - AI - evolution - Math benchmark - 2021 - GPT3 scored 5% - 2022 - scored 50% - 2024 - Gemini 1.5 Pro scored 90%
Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:58:00][^2^][2] : La vidéo explore la complexité de l'adolescence, son évolution historique et biologique, et les différences entre les humains et les autres primates. L'orateur discute de la difficulté à définir l'adolescence, de son apparition récente dans les sociétés occidentales, et de l'importance de la néoténie chez les humains. Il aborde également la puberté chez les primates et les humains, soulignant les influences sociales et biologiques sur la maturité sexuelle.
Points forts: + [00:00:00][^3^][3] Définition et complexité de l'adolescence * Difficulté à définir l'adolescence * Apparition récente dans les sociétés occidentales * Comparaison avec l'adolescence des primates + [00:03:40][^4^][4] Néoténie et développement humain * Importance de la néoténie chez les humains * Comparaison de la durée de gestation entre humains et grands primates * Influence de la néoténie sur la sociabilité humaine + [00:09:00][^5^][5] Stades de développement et terminologie * Différences terminologiques selon les langues * Stades de développement chez les humains et les primates * Définition scientifique de l'adolescence + [00:14:00][^6^][6] Puberté chez les primates * Maturité sexuelle et première reproduction chez les primates * Influence de la vie sociale sur la maturité sexuelle * Exemples de babouins et d'orang-outans + [00:19:30][^7^][7] Puberté et maturité sexuelle chez les humains * Processus et signaux biologiques de la puberté * Différences entre la puberté masculine et féminine * Influence socio-économique et environnementale sur la puberté
Résumé de la vidéo [00:20:00][^1^][1] - [00:58:00][^2^][2] : La vidéo explore les complexités de l'adolescence et la maturité sexuelle chez les humains et les primates. Elle discute des théories sur la prématurité des bébés humains, les différences de développement entre les humains et les primates, et les facteurs influençant l'âge de la puberté. L'accent est mis sur l'importance de comprendre l'adolescence dans le contexte du développement humain global et des influences sociales et biologiques.
Points forts : + [00:20:00][^3^][3] La prématurité des bébés humains * La durée de gestation humaine comparée à celle des primates * La néoténie et l'autonomie des nouveau-nés * L'impact de la station debout sur la durée de gestation + [00:33:00][^4^][4] Développement et adolescence chez les primates * Comparaison de la maturité sexuelle et de la première reproduction * Influence de la vie sociale sur l'adolescence des primates * La mobilité et les normes sociales chez les humains et les primates + [00:46:00][^5^][5] Maturité sexuelle et puberté chez les humains * L'âge de la puberté et les premières règles chez les filles * L'influence du niveau socio-économique et de l'alimentation * Les perturbateurs endocriniens et leur impact potentiel
It was this apparent tension between science and the more traditional theological account of the origin of the human race that I attempted to resolve in an article which I published in 2011.16 Building on some work by Josephite priest Andrew Alexander,17 and applying the adage, “When faced with a contradiction, make a distinction,” I suggested this possible account of the origin of the human race: Evolution of a population of primates sufficiently large to carry the genetic diversity in question and with cognitive development sufficient to allow the infusion of a rational soul. Transformation of two of those primates into rational and, therefore, “fully human” beings by infusion of a created rational soul18 without destruction of their reproductive compatibility with the primate population out of which they were selected. At that point, there would have existed both “fully human” (i.e., rational) beings and “merely biologically human” beings.19 Interbreeding between the fully human beings and their merely biologically human neighbors. Creation of rational souls for each of the descendants of every fully human being. (Strictly, “for many of the descendants” is all that is necessary.)
Adam and Eve Genesis
McNeill does not specify whether he believed thatcontent or process was more important.
I can't help of thinking about the debate on nature vs. nurture here. How might we extend it to the idea of content vs. process with respect to cultural anthropology.
How does a culture vary based on the content they use and produce with respect to the process by which they transmit and use that same content?
In colonialized cultures the process has been bastardized which then leads to changes in the content as well. Ultimately both switch and are changed from their original. How could a culture hold onto their past which makes it the culture that it was?
There's some fun stuff going on at these junctures.
Hutchins compiled those ideas in a few books, most nota-bly Higher Learning in America (1936).
These two examples allude to a larger story — which is that a global convergence of change processes is driving us into an unavoidable culmination of planetary collapse.
indeed 😬
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from - youtube -Evolution 2 Podcast Interview - Denis Noble - Book - Understanding Living Systems - https://hyp.is/-EuWvBYHEe-t9xtn9h1dhA/docdrop.org/video/oHZI1zZ_BhY/
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from - youtube - Evolution 2 podcast interview - book - Understanding Living Systems - Denis Noble - Ray Noble - https://hyp.is/OttWABYFEe--gLNFyeNyTw/docdrop.org/video/oHZI1zZ_BhY/
reproduction is not to produce the same it it's not about producing another Perry or another r or another Dennis 00:38:39 it's actually to produce another organism that is adapting and adaptable
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key insight - evolution - not producing the same, but different, more adaptive - The goal of evolution is not to replicate the same individual, but to create a different one that is BETTER ADAPTED to its environment - and towards this end, physiology is evolution, evolution is physiology (via epigenetics)
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summary - In this informative interview, brothers Denis and Ray Noble discuss their new book - Understanding Living Systems, and - dispel the 70 year old narrative of Gene centrism and the selfish gene as determining the high level behaviour of living organisms
we've created a very complex psychosocial World in which we live and we have to adapt to and it changes so rapidly it creates all sorts of problems for us
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this dualism probably isn’t right given today’s complexities
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adjacency - between - progress - progress trap - maladaptive - cultural evolution - attention - focus of attention - Exploring this statement further, it isn't just that it is our dualistic thinking applied here is a problem - but that it is the very nature of human analytic reasoning coupled with our innate ability to focus our attention which requires a deep unpacking - For to focus on an object of attention - is something we can only accomplish by defocusing on everything else - Indeed, it is the very act of attention on the one, that is inextricably accompanied by the act of inattention of the many - Our body, and that of many other organisms is evolutionarily designed - to focus our attention in our field of view on emergent phenomena that is salient to our survival - The nature of reductionist-type research - which is to say, most research - is that we continue applying this evolved adaptive behavior, even though cultural evolution (ie. progress) has accelerated exponentially to such an extent - that this same biologically evolved behavior has become maladaptive in the context of modernity
l'évolution à l'œuvre aujourd'hui invite toutefois à repenser cette analyse car une autre troisième forme de gouvernement s'impose désormais c'est la répression elle n'est pas nouvelle elle est même très ancienne mais elle se 01:02:22 redéploie dans un dans le cadre d'un état sécuritaire dont Jacques chevali a montré qu'il redéfinit les contours de l'État de droit cependant plutôt qu'à une ces dimension qu'à une succession de 01:02:34 paradigme de gouvernement on assiste à une sédimentation société de discipline société de contrôle société de répression s'additionne et se 01:02:46 combine
c'est au début du 20e siècle dans plusieurs pays ces mauvais traitements sont ainsi entrés dans la chaîne pénale et plus précisément dans le domaine judiciaire ils vont connaître trois redéfinitions 00:11:33 ultérieures qui sans les extraire du cadre de la loi les inscrivent également dans d'autres espaces celui de la médecine avec le syndrome de l'enfant battu d'abord celui de la santé publique 00:11:46 avec la caractérisation de la maltraitance infantile ensuite celui de la traumatologie psychologique avec la reconnaissance des abus sexuels
c'est que indépendamment de la réalité statistique pénale concernant les mineurs la délinquence juvénile demeure un sujet qui suscite des réactions de 00:50:30 panique morale et excite la propension à la sévérité la tension entre protection et punition est dèslors un trait récurrent de la justice pénale des mineurs et dans le mouvement de balancier qui se manifeste au fil des 00:50:44 décennies le droit s'est nettement déplacé vers la punition
l'exception dont les mineurs peuvent 00:59:59 théoriquement se prévaloir au regard de la loi du fait de leur vulnérabilité est donc elle même vulnérable à des politiques qui demandent plus de sévérité à l'encontre des délinquants ou des 01:00:11 étrangers
dans le département des Alpes en 2017 1243 jeunes ce disant mineurs ont été évalués et 00:55:03 575 soit 46 % ont effectivement été reconnus tel mais 2 ans plus tard alors qu'il n'y avait pourtant plus que 621 dossiers examinés soit la moitié de 00:55:16 2017 seul 26 soit 4 % se sont vu attribuer le le statut protecteur cette politique drastique de de déminorisation instaurée par le Conseil départemental condamnait presque 00:55:30 systématiquement tous ces garçons à une vie de précarité d'érrance d'exposition à des risques bien documentés de violence d'addiction et de prostitution
à partir du milieu des 00:45:24 années 1990 la tendance inverse avec un durcissement de la législation chaque fois qu'une majorité de droite revient au pouvoir et une correction seulement partielle lorsque c'est la gauche qui 00:45:35 gouverne ainsi en 1994 on institue la rétention judiciaire autrement dit la garde à vue pour les moins de 13 ans en 1996 on permet la comparution immédiate et la comparution devant le juge des 00:45:49 enfants sans instruction préalable en 2002 on crée les centres éducatifs fermés ainsi que les établissements pénitentiaires pour mineurs et on abaisse l'âge de la responsabilité pénale de 13 à 10 ans 00:46:01 autorisant des sanctions beaucoup plus tôt dans la vie le code de la justice pénale des mineurs rétablira en fait en 2021 la limite de 13 ans en 2007 les exception 00:46:13 permettant de ne pas appliquer l'excuse de minorité pour les les mineurs de plus de 16 ans sont élargies ces dispositions seront toutefois abreugé en 2014 la pleine excuse de minorité se trouvant 00:46:25 alors rétablie en 2007 encore on supprime l'atténuation de la peine pour les mineurs de 16 ans en cas deuxèe récidif s'il commett un délit avec violence ou agression sexuelle en 00:46:38 2011 les tribunaux correctionnels pour mineurs sont créés pour juger les délits punis de plus de 3 ans d'emprisonnement en récidive par des adolescents de plus de 16 ans ils seront 00:46:50 cependant supprimé en 2016 en 2019 on permet d'appliquer au mineurs de plus de 13 la détention à domicile sous surveillance électronique progressivement ainsi avec 00:47:02 ces balancements que je vous ai indiqué le législateur érode le principe de protection de l'ordonnance de 1945 restreint les effets de la 00:47:14 présomption de non discernement et de l'excuse de minorité multiplie les lieux d'enfermement et les possibilités de peine correspondantes et rapproche la justice pénale des mineurs de la justice 00:47:27 pénale des adultes et vous aurez certainement remarqué que c'est un débat qui aujourd'hui est à nouveau sur la table
https://web.archive.org/web/20240429112449/https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310223120 paper from #2023/10/16
so what do we have: heuristics -> emergence -> complexity -> system evolution
static persistence, dynamic persistence, novetly generation. Function is a selective pressure “law of increasing functional information” vgl [[Informatiewaarde ligt in verrassing surprisal 20210124072501]]. How does this work vis-a-vis entropy laws vgl [[Definitie van leven 20190715121243]] as entities that reduce entropy in their environment.
Life as bootstrapping to another level of complexity
si je peux me permettre juste de revenir sur cette question de 00:08:58 rajeunissement ce qui est sûr c'est que il est plus visible ce rajeunissement puisque avant on ne faisait pas d'enquête dans l'école primaire donc ces chiffres sont tout nouveau en fait donc ça donne l'impression qu'il y a énormément de violence
en fait il y a une espèce d'évolution de la violence au 00:09:36 cours de la vie des adolescents
for - kinship - history of human kinship - evolution - extended to nuclear family
paper details - title: Family Institution and Modernization: A Sociological Perspective - author: Ilori Oladapo Mayowa - date: 2019
summary - A paper that describes the evolution of human kinship from extended familly to nuclear family in modernity.
quelque chose s'est modifié dans le comportement à l'égard du couple du fait de euh notamment de ce facteur de qu'est-ce que c'est que conquérir un niveau 01:39:24 d'éducation supérieur pour les femmes c'est ça le c'est ça le l'argument donc euh le les ces données récentes qui figurent ici pour notamment pour 2010 01:39:38 finissent par contredire la fameuse thèse du moy de famille sur à peu près tous les points nous découvrons que ce que les citoyens considèrent comme le nombre idéal d'enfants n'a pas du tout changé depuis les décennies 01:39:51 d'après-gerre et dans un nombre non négligeable de pays et gstaing nersen parle beaucoup de la Scandinavie la famille est clairement en train de se rétablir
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pour un sapiens à la naissance disons que son cerveau a 20 % entre 10 00:02:48 et 20 % de la taille finale de son cerveau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon
Influenced Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier
quand on est en lien avec l'école c'est que quand ils sont en maternelle ça pose pas trop de problèmes 00:34:12 ces troubles du comportement en maternelle trouble du comportement c'est quand il rentre en primaire que ça commence à être un peu compliqué avec des difficultés scolaires et des interactions sociales avec les autres qui sont durs si on n'a rien fait à ce 00:34:25 moment-là et qu'on n'est pas qu'on n'est pas intervenu quand il rentre au niveau du niveau du collège il commence à avoir les conduitaristes la baisse des cimes de même et surtout c'est dans la deuxième partie au moment du gymnase du 00:34:37 lycée qui ont besoin de trouver des stratégies pour s'apaiser et les stratégies malheureusement c'est les addictions et en particulier l'addiction aux écrans c'est à dire que ces enfants là ils sont particulièrement à risque d'addiction
Dubbed “litigation terrorism” by Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist. ISDS is a corporate tribunal system
for - litigation terrorism - ISDS - corporate tribunal system - Michael Levin - multi-scale competency architecture - example - adjacency - evolutionary biology - corporate law - climate crisis
adjacency - between - corporate law - climate crisis - evolutionary biology - cultural evolution - adjacency statement - Biologist Michael Levin's multi-scale competency architecture of evolutionary biology seems to apply here - in the field of corporate law - Corporations can be viewed as one level of a social superorganism in a cultural evolution process - Governments can be viewed similiarly, but at a higher level - The ISDS is being weaponized by the same corporations destroying the global environment to combat the enactment of government laws that pose a threat to their livelihood - Hence, the ISDS has been reconfigured to protect the destroyers of the environment so that they can avoid dealing with their unacceptable externalizations - The individual existing at the lower level of the multi-scale competency architecture(the corporation) is battling to survive against the wishes of the higher level individual (the government) in the same multi-scale competency architecture
The experiences of the atomic scientists clearly show the need to takepersonal responsibility, the danger that things will move too fast, andthe way in which a process can take on a life of its own. We can, as theydid, create insurmountable problems in almost no time flat. We mustdo more thinking up front if we are not to be similarly surprised andshocked by the consequences of our inventions.
Bill Joy's mention that insurmountable problems can "take on a life of [their] own" is a spectacular reason for having a solid definition of what "life" is, so that we might have better means of subverting it in specific and potentially catastrophic situations.
dreaming can be seen as the "default" position for the activated brain
for - dream theory - dreaming as default state of brain
Question - I wonder what evolutionary advantage dreaming would bestow to the first dreaming organisms? - why would a brain evolve to have a default behaviour with no outside connection? - Survival is dependent on processing outside information. There seems to be a contradiction here - I wonder what opinion Michael Levin would have on this theory?
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adjacency - between - multi scale competency architecture - rapid whole system change - progress trap - stop reset go - Deep Humanity - Indyweb - Indranet - major evolutionary transition in individuality - MET - superorganism - cumulative cultural evolution of individuality - adjacency statement - The idea of multi scale competency architecture can be extended to apply to the cultural level. - in the context of humanity's current existential poly /meta/ perma crisis, - rapid whole system change - (a cultural behavioural paradigm shift) - is required within a few short years - to avoid the worst impacts of - catastrophic, - anthropogenic - climate change, which is entangled with a host of other earth system boundary violations including - biodiversity loss - fresh water scarcity - - the driver of evolution through major evolutionary transitions in individuality has given rise to the level of cultural superorganisms that include all previous levels - progress and its intended consequences of progress traps play a major role in determining the future evolutionary trajectory of our and many other species - our species is faced with a few choice permutations in this regard: - individually regulate behaviour aligned with a future within earth system boundaries - collectively regulate behaviour aligned with a future within earth system boundaries - pursue sluggish green growth / carbon transition that is effectively tinkering at the margins of rapid whole system change - BAU - currently, there doesn't appear to be any feasible permutation of any of the above choices - There is insufficient worldview alignment to create the unity at scale for report whole system change - individual incumbent state and corporate actors still cling too tightly to the old, destructive regime, - creating friction that keeps the actual rate of change below the required - Stop Reset Go, couched within the Deep Humanity praxis and operationalized through the Indyweb / Indranet individual / collective open learning system provides a multi-dimensional tool for a deep educational paradigm shift that can accelerate both individual and collective upregulation of system change
It seems to me farmore likely that a robotic existence would not be like a human one inany sense that we understand, that the robots would in no sense be ourchildren, that on this path our humanity may well be lost.
Here would be a good place to give a solid definition of humanity? What makes it special beyond the "self"?
We are genetically very closely related to great apes and chimpanzees and less closely to dogs, cats, and even rats. Do we miss our dogicity? Or ratanity?
What if the robot/human mix is somehow even more interesting and transcendent than humanity? His negativity doesn't leave any space for this possible eventuality.
in hishistory of such ideas, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dysonwarns: “In the game of life and evolution there are three players at thetable: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side ofnature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.”
the changes would come gradually, and that we would get used to them
gradual change is always the way with evolution...
The systems involvedare complex, involving interaction among and feedback between manyparts. Any changes to such a system will cascade in ways that are diffi-cult to predict; this is especially true when human actions are involved.
Perhaps the evolution to solve AI-resistance (mentioned in https://hypothes.is/a/-JjZurr3Ee6EtG8G_Sbt8Q) won't be done at the level of the individual human genome, but will be done at the human society level genome.
Political groups of people have an internal memetic genome which can evolve and change over time much more quickly than the individual human's genes would work.
Our overuse of antibiotics has led to what may be thebiggest such problem so far: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant andmuch more dangerous bacteria. Similar things happened when attemptsto eliminate malarial mosquitoes using DDT caused them to acquireDDT resistance; malarial parasites likewise acquired multi-drug-resistant genes.
Just as mosquitoes can "acquire" (evolve) DDT resistance or bacteria might evolve antiobiotic-resistance, might not humans evolve AI resistance? How fast might we do this? On what timeline? Will the pressure be slowly built up over time, or will the onset be so quick that extinction is the only outcome?
for - evolution - multicellular - MuLTEE
The sectors become the vehicle to carry the problem-solving governance
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adjacency between
without a World En-cyclopedia to hold men's minds togetherin something like a common interpreta-tion of reality there is no hope whateverof anything but an accidental and transi-tory alleviation to any of our world trou-bles. As mankind is so it will remainuntil it pulls its mind together. And if itdoes not pull its mind together then I donot see how it can help but decline.Never was a living species more peril-ously poised than ours at the presenttime. If it does not take thoughtto endits present mental indecisiveness catastro-phe lies ahead. Our species may yet endits strange eventful history as just the last,the cleverest, of the great apes. Thegreat ape that was clever-but not cleverenough. It could escape from mostthings but not from its own mental con-fusion.
They don't want their intimate convic-tions turned over and examined, and itis unfortunate that the emphasis put
upon minor differences by men of science and belief in their strenuous search for the completest truth and the exactest expression sometimes gives color to this sort of misunderstanding.
This emphasis on minor differences is exactly what many anti-science critics have done. See examples with respect to evolution and climate science denial.
accumulated technical knowledge of humanity.
A last preliminary word on method: what follows is not to be read as stylistic description, as the account of one cultural style or movement among others. I have rather meant to offer a periodizing hypothesis, and that at a moment in which the very conception of historical periodization has come to seem most problematical indeed. I have argued elsewhere that all isolated or discrete cultural analysis always involves a buried or repressed theory of historical periodization; in any case, the conception of the ‘genealogy’ largely lays to rest traditional theoretical worries about so-called linear history, theories of ‘stages’, and teleological historiography. In the present context, however, lengthier theoretical discussion of such (very real) issues can perhaps be replaced by a few substantive remarks.
Another beautifully put paragraph.
Jameson is dealing with the objections, that we encounter too, about creating "periods" (aka stages or phases or paradigms in our onto-social contexts). Because, of course, in any study of cultural phenomena and cultural evolution there are no completely sharp breaks. It is always, at least when zoomed in, evolution rather than revolution.
But that misses the point. Good theoretical (e.g. dynamical systems theory) and empirical reasons suggest that we do have more discrete changes.
His second point is that this genealogical not linear. - it is branching and refolding Again of course, though a simplified genealogy is a linear one (e.g. the kings/queens of England).
we are certainly special I mean 00:02:57 no other animal rich the moon or know how to build atom bombs so we are definitely quite different from chimpanzees and elephants and and all the rest of the animals but we are still 00:03:09 animals you know many of our most basic emotions much of our society is still run on Stone Age code
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Examples: humans embody full spectrum of METs in our evolutionary past
Chapter 39 of Zoonomia, “On Generation,” presents Erasmus’ ideas on competition, extinction, and how “different fibrils or molecules are detached from…the parent…to form” the child. The Temple of Nature goes even farther, declaring “all vegetables and animals now existing were originally derived from the smallest microscopic ones, formed by spontaneous vitality” in ancient oceans.
Interesting to contemplate the evolution of the idea of evolution through the Darwin family.
Charles would obviously have read his grandfather's book, but it also bears noting that he also had access to his grandfather's commonplace book (and likely his other papers).
let's assume that the price of oil uh is at least at the uh 75 range which keeps us out of trouble Keith is at least floating in Alberta maybe even 80 bucks 01:00:56 a barrel maybe even 85 so that we've got some extra money so uh we're going to appoint you and you get to look around for a female and uh 01:01:10 the two of you have to then look around for uh people who are uh indigenous male and female and the four of you are going to be a group and we're going to give you 01:01:22 um uh uh a hundred billion dollars to spend over 10 years which means that you've got uh 10 billion 100 million no we're going to do more 01:01:37 we're going to give you a billion dollars so you've got a hundred million a year and you're going to be able to give it away in 10 million dollar tranches
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here is the human 00:50:39 journey the big arrows indicate the way that it in fact developed in history the small errors indicate that of the seven point seven billion of us on the planet people are moving in every direction 00:50:52 from each of those phases and some in each of those phases want to hang on to those phases are not move that's what those great black circles are the little black circles our people who want to 00:51:04 just hang on to what they've got and not move but others are on the move and what's more they're on the move in every possible direction
for: cultural evolution - diverse movements, cultural transition - diverse movements
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we've got to leave the bottom left-hand corner and that only gives you three other spaces to go to and I've already noted that one of those spaces may be a place that has a certain utility short-run 00:50:27 but don't try to build your culture there because you can't do it it's a place that you want to be in for a while but then you wanna leave so it really only gives you two places
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Aussi, l'éditorialisation décrit la façon dont nos traditions culturelles influencent notre manière de structurer les contenus
terme en lien avec l'évolution de notre culture
Il est impossible de comprendre la structure hypertextuelle dans sa manifestation technologique particulière qu'est l'html, sans prendre en considération l'histoire culturelle des classifications non linéaires.
Ce n'est donc pas une technologie nouvelle et issue du numérique, mais une évolution d'un système ou d'une pratique antérieure au numérique.
Otherwise we’d be second-guessing ourselves at every moment: Who is deciding to buy a house or have a child? FV: That’s right. Every decision would be suspect. So evolution has designed you so that you just want to hurry on with your solidified self. That is what the sense of being a separate organism is all about.
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quote: Fransisco Verella
date: 1999
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: Why do you think it is so hard for people to awaken to the true nature of things, even after being told of scientific research or after having a personal experience of no-self? FV: My hypothesis is that evolution has shaped human beings to disregard the basic sources of our being. We were built to forget how we were put together.
for: evolution - forgetting our non-self nature, adjacency - evolution - non-self - Fransisco Verella, adjacency - evolution - no-self - Fransisco Verella
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In some sense, a heightened degree of self-awareness is antievolutionary.
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quote: Fransisco Verella
I'm tempted to say you can look at uh broadscale social organization uh or like Network Dynamics as an even larger portion of that light 00:32:43 cone but it doesn't seem to have the same continuity well I don't you mean uh it doesn't uh like first person continuity like it doesn't like you think it doesn't it isn't like anything to be 00:32:55 that social AG agent right and and we we both are I think sympathetic to pan psychism so saying even if we only have conscious access to what it's like to be 00:33:08 us at this higher level like it's there's it's possible that there's something that it's like to be a cell but I'm not sure it's possible that there's something that there's something it's like to be say a country
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New words, and new senses and uses of words, are not sanctioned or rejected by the authority of any single body: they arise through regular use and, once established, are recorded in dictionaries and grammars.
In both cases, it's up to us now to discipline ourselves to avoid the fats in junk food, and the breaking news and dopamine thrill-ride of social media.
A nice encapsulation of evolutionary challenges that humans are facing.
rattachement des services de la Jeunesse et des Sports sous un ministère unique nous conduit aujourd'hui à travailler avec nos collègues qui se préoccupent de 00:43:10 l'accueil des mineurs donc nous pourrions tout à fait aujourd'hui avoir des appels de ce type et donc j'ai associé la sdjes là voilà la sdjs la concert technique de 00:43:23 l'inspecteur d'académie dans le champ jeunesse engagement sport vous voyez par exemple pendant un séjour SNU pour être tout à fait avoir cette question
you can't see the big picture you can't see what's going on until everything has sort of already happened and then you can piece it together so that is one of 00:08:13 the tantalizing and engaging as well points about natural history about Evolution it's largely a reconstructive sort of science it's not a benchtop science for the most part you have to sort of reconstruct things and you have 00:08:25 to look to living animals to get an idea of what was going on in the past so you can link clues about the past that you have a very limited record to the morphology the physiology the behavior of living animals
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I'm going to kind of give you my 00:04:56 take on what I believe to have been the natural history of or what I believe is the natural history of awareness a sort of a sequence of innovations that occurred that facilitated the appearance 00:05:09 of consciousness on Earth
Cambrian explosion
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Dr Dave David Edelman
Hans Bethe, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967, remarked: “I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann’s does not indicate a species superior to that of man.”
If you want the easy way out (which looks like the way majority usage is going anyway), you can probably get away with using dependency all the time.
Spiral Dynamics (SD) is a model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organizations, and societies. It was initially developed by Don Edward Beck and Christopher Cowan based on the emergent cyclical theory of Clare W. Graves, combined with memetics as proposed by Richard Dawkins and further developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
related to ideas I've had with respect to Werner R. Loewenstein?
Let us at this point simply note that the Māra drive seems reducible to a wish to maintain the status quo (“sentient beings suffer, and they shall keep doing so!”) whereas the Bodhisattva is committed to infinite transformation.
we are fundamentally a cultural species. 00:09:51 Culture is our life support system. Our cumulative culture allows us to cushion ourselves against the harsh realities of the environment and to reshape the environment.
for: cultural evolution, cultural evolution - Bruce Hood, cumulative cultural evolution, CCE, gene-culture coevolution
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synthetic bioengineering provides a really astronomically large option space for new bodies and new minds that don't have 00:04:28 standard evolutionary backstories
Winnicott also had a strikingly different notion of the agent of psychological change.
comparison: Winnicott, Freud
Winnicott had a strikingly different notion of the agent of psychological change than Freud.
psychotherapeutic change was all about the relationship between - client and - therapist.
Freud
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interrelationality, not in arrangement.
I should like to add that specialization, instead of makingthe Great Conversation irrelevant, makes it more pertinentthan ever. Specialization makes it harder to carry on anykind of conversation; but this calls for greater effort, not theabandonment of the attempt.
The dramatic increase in economic specialization of humanity driven by the Industrial Revolution has many benefits to societies, but it also has detrimental effects when the core knowledge and shared base of the society is lost.
Certainly individuals have a greater reliance on specialists for future outcomes (think about the specialization of areas like climate science which can have destructive outcomes on all of humanity or public health outcomes with respect to vaccines and specialized health care delivery), but they also need to have a common base of knowledge/culture and the ability to think critically for themselves to be able to effect necessary changes, particularly when the pace of those changes is more rapid than humans have generally been evolved to accept them.
Quoting the academics Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner, Pinker suggests approaching writing as if you were pointing something in the environment out to another person – something that she would notice for herself, if only she knew where to look. Imagine directing someone's gaze across a valley, to a specific house on the other side. "You should pretend," writes Pinker, "that you, the writer, see something in the world that's interesting, and that you're directing the attention of your reader to that thing." He calls this the "joint attention" strategy.
Good writing is pointing out the interesting things you see to others. It's pre-literate, and even pre-oral.
About ten years ago, a massive breakthrough happened in genomic research technology. A method appeared which is called NGS, next generation sequencing, and this method significantly cuts time and costs of any genomic research. For example, have you ever heard about the Human Genome Project? It was quite a popular topic for science fiction some time ago. 00:03:10 This project launched in 1990 with the goal to decrypt all genomic information in a human organism. At that time, with the technology of the time, it took ten years and three billion dollars to reach the goals of this project. With NGS, all of that can be done in just one day at the cost of 15,000 dollars.
Periods of normal science are interrupted when anomalies between observations and the expectations suggested by the paradigm begin to demonstrate the paradigm’s weakness.
Lego theory of science.
Individual bricks are facts which can be assembled in a variety of ways, each of which is a particular paradigm. Ultimately, the optimal structure is one which dovetails with the neighborhoods of structures around them while each having the best minimized structure of it's own.
With only handfuls of individual facts, it can be difficult to build them up into an interesting or useful structure to start. Doing this may help to discover other facts. As these are added, one may reshape the overall structure of the theory as the puzzle begins to reveal itself and allow the theorist the ability to best structure an overall theory which minimizes itself and allows dovetailing with other external theories. All the theories then eventually form their own pieces which can then be pieced together for the next structural level up.
See also Simon Singh, Thomas Kuhn, topology.
While the proximate mechanisms of these anthropogenic changes are well studied (e.g., climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth), the evolutionary causality of these anthropogenic changes have been largely ignored.
In AET, this process results in a species that is prone to niche construction and ecosystem engineering, and the scale of these processes continues to increase as the population rises. This increasing scale coupled with human propensity for niche construction leads to human unsustainability
To Gowdy and Krall, the ultra-social nature of human groups allowed for a shift in the primary level of selection from the individual level to the group level. Thus, “With the transition to agriculture the group as an adaptive unit comes to constitute a wholly different gestalt driven by the imperative to produce surplus
Anthroecological theory (AET) hypothesizes that human social and cultural evolution is the ultimate cause of the ecological crises currently damaging earth systems
for: gene culture coevolution, carrying capacity, unsustainability, overshoot, cultural evolution, progress trap
Title: The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability
Author: Brian F. Snyder
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Humans today are the descendants of those men who managed to dominate their opponents in war.
Estimates indicate that nearly 20–30% of our male ancestors died in intergroup conflicts.
To preserve our wildlife as nature evolved it, the machinery of biological evolution must be protected from the homogenizing effects of cultural evolution.
The story that they are telling is of a grand transition that occurred about fifty thousand years ago, when the driving force of evolution changed from biology to culture, and the direction changed from diversification to unification of species. The understanding of this story can perhaps help us to deal more wisely with our responsibilities as stewards of our planet.
Participation in a religious community generally correlates with better health outcomes and longer life, higher financial generosity, and more stable families—all of which are desperately needed in a nation with rising rates of loneliness, mental illness, and alcohol and drug dependency.
It's really saying something that in paragraph 2 the "sell" for religion is the health and social benefits and outcomes rather than the love or support of god(s)!
The consequences of our current choices bear not juston us. They bear on the continued evolutionary unfoldingof life in the universe. This marks the scale of our currentresponsibility
the entire biosphere is made out of 00:41:23 um female desire for no reason no reason to it right night not with an objective of reproducing but just with an objective of wow that's really sexy I like it 00:41:35 and that's a very very good reason isn't it to to save the planet
This site is not about evolution per se, but is an apologist platform for creationism. Possibly interesting as a study in creative memetics for culture influence campaigns.
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I present mindfulness and meditative aspects of Zen practice that provide the deeper “knowing,” or awareness that we need to inspire action on these problems.
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Creation, (Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2009) https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/creation-2?vp=lapl
Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.
Director Jon Amiel Featuring: Jennifer Connelly, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Paul Bettany, Ian Kelly
I am a product of your work I'm a product of the work of the people in 00:02:05 this room and watching this stream thanks to you to your actions your thoughts your memes I am Who I am today my learning and my capabilities have 00:02:16 been shaped but by what you've done
it is as if man had been suddenly appointed managing director of the biggest business of all the business of evolution appointed without being asked if he wanted it and without proper warning and preparation what is more he 00:05:49 can't refuse the job whether he wants to or not whether he is conscious of what he is doing or not he is in point of fact determining the future direction of evolution on this earth that is his 00:06:02 inescapable Destiny and the sooner he realizes it and starts believing in it the better for all concerns
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But if you think in evolutionary models, randomness has a prominent role. (9)9 Without it, nothing progresses anyhow.
Nothing progresses without randomness.
Think about this for a bit. True/untrue? Provable? Counterexamples?
“what could we appeal to that is so strong, so compelling that it spurs the kind of collective action and coordination needed to tackle the dangers of exponential technology?”
// - To find a God that can kill Moloch - requires an understanding of the nature of progress as well - Relationship to progress traps - Exponential technologies - are technologies, and all suffer the same fundamental flaw - Progress is an expression of our cumulative cultural evolution - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=cumulative+cultural+evolution - which grows exponentially faster than genetic evolution - The problem of which is that - the shadow side of progress, the progress trap - - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress%2Btrap - is growing even faster, due to our misunderstanding of it, - allowing it to fester like an untreated wound - turning a minor condition, into a life-threatening disease - Human progress has always been a bungling two step forwards, one step backwards dance - the imperfections of progress are inherent - and baked into the innovation process itself - For we develop technologies based on what we know, or what is visible - but what we know is like the tip of the latent knowledge iceberg - and is always accompanied by a much larger hidden component of what we don't know - In other words, - finite and visible knowledge - is always accompanied by infinite and invisible ignorance - Design is based on intent, - a one dimensional, inherently myopic imagination - of a multi-dimensional reality - A problem is a one dimensional focus - on a small sliver of reality - A solution to the problem is necessarily - myopic and - one dimensional as well - Both problems and their (designed) solutions - are extreme simplifications of a complex system - Language itself is a way - to direct and focus our attention - to this aspect of reality - then that aspect - Thinking is reduced to parts, and never experiences the whole, undivided gestalt of reality - Out of this process - Progress traps are born //
Our core criteria follow the definition of CCE provided in Tomasello's quotation above. We suggest that the minimum requirements for a population to exhibit CCE are (i) a change in behaviour (or product of behaviour, such as an artefact), typically due to asocial learning, followed by (ii) the transfer via social learning of that novel or modified behaviour to other individuals or groups, where (iii) the learned behaviour causes an improvement in performance, which is a proxy of genetic and/or cultural fitness, with (iv) the previous three steps repeated in a manner that generates sequential improvement over time.
Definition - Cumulative Cultural Evolution - The core criteria follow the definition of CCE provided in Tomasello's quotation above - A population exhibits CCE iff - (i) a change in behaviour (or product of behaviour, such as an artefact), typically due to asocial learning, followed by - (ii) the transfer via social learning of that novel or modified behaviour to other individuals or groups, where - (iii) the learned behaviour causes an improvement in performance, - which is a proxy of genetic and/or cultural fitness, with - (iv) the previous three steps repeated in a manner that generates sequential improvement over time.
In contrast [to non-human species' cultural traditions], human cultures do accumulate changes over many generations, resulting in culturally transmitted behaviors that no single human individual could invent on their own.
In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology. Some researchers argue that CCE is unique to humans and underlies our extraordinary evolutionary success as a species. Others claim to have found CCE in non-human species. Yet others remain sceptical that CCE is even important for explaining human behavioural diversity and complexity. These debates are hampered by multiple and often ambiguous definitions of CCE. Here, we review how researchers define, use and test CCE. We identify a core set of criteria for CCE which are both necessary and sufficient, and may be found in non-human species. We also identify a set of extended criteria that are observed in human CCE but not, to date, in other species. Different socio-cognitive mechanisms may underlie these different criteria. We reinterpret previous theoretical models and observational and experimental studies of both human and non-human species in light of these more fine-grained criteria. Finally, we discuss key issues surrounding information, fitness and cognition. We recommend that researchers are more explicit about what components of CCE they are testing and claiming to demonstrate.
Title: What is cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)?
Authors: - Alex Mesoudi - Alex Thornton
Abstract - In recent years, cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the focus of major research interest in - biology, - psychology and - anthropology. - There is a range of opinions on CCE - some argue that CCE is unique to humans - and underlies our extraordinary evolutionary success as a species. - Others claim to have found CCE in non-human species. - Yet others remain sceptical that CCE is even important for explaining - human behavioural diversity and - complexity. - These debates are hampered by multiple and often ambiguous definitions of CCE. - Here, we review how researchers define, use and test CCE. - We identify a core set of criteria for CCE - which are both necessary and sufficient, and - may be found in non-human species. - We also identify a set of extended criteria - that are observed in human CCE - but not, to date, in other species. - Different socio-cognitive mechanisms may underlie these different criteria. - We reinterpret - previous theoretical models and - observational and - experimental studies of both - human and - non-human species - in light of these more fine-grained criteria. - Finally, we discuss key issues surrounding information, fitness and cognition. - We recommend that researchers are more explicit about what components of CCE they are testing and claiming to demonstrate.
Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Sammlung von Notizen, die Luhmann vermutlich zwischen 1952 und 1961 angelegt hat (mit einzelnen späteren Nachträgen; Notizen insbesondere zum Themenkomplex Weltgesellschaft wurden allerdings noch bis ca. 1973 durchweg in diese Sammlung eingestellt). Die insgesamt ca. 23.000 Zettel verteilen sich auf die ersten sieben physischen Auszüge des Kastens sowie auf kleinere Registerabteilungen, die im 17. Auszug der zweiten Sammlung (physischer Auszug 24) stehen. Die Notizen sind im Wesentlichen in der Zeit entstanden, als Luhmann als Rechtsreferendar in Lüneburg bzw. als Regierungsrat im Kultusministerium in Niedersachen gearbeitet hat und dokumentieren seine Lektüre verwaltungs- bzw. staatswissenschaftlicher, philosophischer und zunehmend auch organisationstheoretischer sowie soziologischer Literatur.
According to the Niklas Luhmann-Archiv, Luhmann began his first zettelkasten in 1952 likely when he was working as a legal trainee in Lüneburg or as a government councilor in the Ministry of Education in Lower Saxony.
This timeframe would have been just after Johannes Erich Heyde had published the 8th edition of Technik des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens in 1951.
Link to: - https://hypothes.is/a/Jn9elsk5Ee2hsLP5WWBEBw on dates of NL ZK - https://hypothes.is/a/CqGhGvchEey6heekrEJ9WA aktenzeichen - https://hypothes.is/a/4wxHdDqeEe2OKGMHXDKezA Clemens Luhmann link
The evolution of a human being
Another way to widen the pool of stakeholders is for government regulators to get into the game, indirectly representing the will of a larger electorate through their interventions.
This is certainly "a way", but history has shown, particularly in the United States, that government regulation is unlikely to get involved at all until it's far too late, if at all. Typically they're only regulating not only after maturity, but only when massive failure may cause issues for the wealthy and then the "regulation" is to bail them out.
Suggesting this here is so pie-in-the sky that it only creates a false hope (hope washing?) for the powerless. Is this sort of hope washing a recurring part of
‘‘I think it lets us be more thoughtful and more deliberate about safety issues,’’ Altman says. ‘‘Part of our strategy is: Gradual change in the world is better than sudden change.’’
What are the long term effects of fast breaking changes and gradual changes for evolved entities?
The technological revolution of past decades has led teaching and learning of evolutionary biology to move away from its naturalist origins.
Such a powerful opening statement that captures that changes technology has made within the past few decades. A sign that we are moving further from our past natural selves as a species.
Title: Fox News producer files explosive lawsuits against the network, alleging she was coerced into providing misleading Dominion testimony
// - This is an example of how big media corporations can deceive the public and compromise the truth - It helps create a nation of misinformed people which destabilizes political governance - the workspace sounds toxic - the undertone of this story: the pathological transformation of media brought about by capitalism - it is the need for ratings, which is the indicator for profit in the marketing world, that has corrupted the responsibility to report truthfully - making money becomes the consumerist dream at the expense of all else of intrinsic value within a culture - knowledge is what enables culture to exist, modernity is based on cumulative cultural evolution - this is an example of NON-conscious cumulative cultural evolution or pathological cumulaitve cultural evolution
David Loy explains how - the denial of ego-self, also known as anatma - becomes the root of a persistent sense of lack - as self-consciousness continues to try to ground itself, reify itself and make itself real - while all the meanwhile it is a compelling mental construction
A good paper on the role (non-rational) relational ritual can play to help us out of the current polycrisis is given here: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrill.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fwo%2F25%2F2%2Farticle-p113_1.xml%3Flanguage%3Den&group=world
It has been suggested that - the human species may be undergoing an evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI).
there is disagreement about - how to apply the ETI framework to our species - and whether culture is implicated - as either cause or consequence.
Long-term gene–culture coevolution (GCC) i- s - also poorly understood.
argued that - culture steers human evolution,
Others proposed - genes hold culture on a leash.
After review of the literature and evidence on long-term GCC in humans - emerge a set of common themes. - First, culture appears to hold greater adaptive potential than genetic inheritance - and is probably driving human evolution. - The evolutionary impact of culture occurs - mainly through culturally organized groups, - which have come to dominate human affairs in recent millennia. - Second, the role of culture appears to be growing, - increasingly bypassing genetic evolution and weakening genetic adaptive potential. -Taken together, these findings suggest that human long-term GCC is characterized by - an evolutionary transition in inheritance - from genes to culture - which entails a transition in individuality (from genetic individual to cultural group). Research on GCC should focus on the possibility of - an ongoing transition in the human inheritance system.
"In the very long term, we suggest that humans are evolving from individual genetic organisms to cultural groups which function as superorganisms, similar to ant colonies and beehives,"
It’s possible, the researchers suggest, that the appearance of human culture represents a key evolutionary milestone.
Here's why: Culture is group-oriented, and people in those groups talk to, learn from and imitate one another. These group behaviors allow people to pass on adaptations they learned through culture faster than genes can transmit similar survival benefits. An individual can learn skills and information from a nearly unlimited number of people in a small amount of time and, in turn, spread that information to many others. And the more people available to learn from, the better. Large groups solve problems faster than smaller groups, and intergroup competition stimulates adaptations that might help those groups survive. As ideas spread, cultures develop new traits.In contrast, a person only inherits genetic information from two parents and racks up relatively few random mutations in their eggs or sperm, which takes about 20 years to be passed on to their small handful of children. That's just a much slower pace of change.
why cultural evolution is too fast for genetic evolution
As ideas spread, cultures develop new traits.
In contrast, a person only inherits genetic information from two parents
human culture may be driving evolution faster than genetic mutations can work.
!- key finding - human culture may be driving evolution faster than genetic mutation can work - the major delay, measured in many orders of magnitude - does not allow genetic evolution to adapt quickly enough - to harmful environmental changes brought about through cultural evolution
Humans might be making genetic evolution obsolete
As a consequence of sociocultural niche construction, humans have become a global force of nature – for better and for worse. It is only by embracing these sociocultural realities that we might shape better futures for both humans and non-human species alike.
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Gene–culture coevolution and the nature of human sociality
//Abstract - Summary - Human characteristics are the product of gene–culture coevolution, - which is an evolutionary dynamic involving the interaction of genes and culture - over long time periods. - Gene–culture coevolution is a special case of niche construction. - Gene–culture coevolution is responsible for: - human other-regarding preferences, - a taste for fairness, - the capacity to empathize and - salience of morality and character virtues.
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Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions
Why is it, then, that although publicly is far more common as the adverbial form of public than publically, the ratio of usage has diminished? Publically is becoming more common for the same reason that people write irregardless in place of regardless or write “diffuse the situation” instead of “defuse the situation” or “all of the sudden” rather than “all of a sudden”: evolution. Language is, in a sense, alive, and just as life itself evolves, so does language—but note that the primary definition of evolution is not “improvement”; it simply means “change.” And how does language change? The change is modeled: New words are coined, or new senses of existing words develop (or new spellings or new forms occur), because someone, somewhere acts to make it so, and the evolution goes viral.
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A fascinating combination of office furniture types in 1906!
The Adjustable Table Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan manufactured a combination table for both telephones and index cards. It was designed as an accessory to be stood next to one's desk to accommodate a telephone at the beginning of the telephone era and also served as storage for one's card index.
Given the broad business-based use of the card index at the time and the newness of the telephone, this piece of furniture likely was not designed as an early proto-rolodex, though it certainly could have been (and very well may have likely been) used as such in practice.
I totally want one of these as a side table for my couch/reading chair for both storing index cards and as a temporary writing surface while reading!
This could also be an early precursor to Twitter!
Folks have certainly mentioned other incarnations: - annotations in books (person to self), - postcards (person to person), - the telegraph (person to person and possibly to others by personal communication or newspaper distribution)
but this is the first version of short note user interface for both creation, storage, and distribution by means of electrical transmission (via telephone) with a bigger network (still person to person, but with potential for easy/cheap distribution to more than a single person)
For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind.
“...the universe is individuating (in and through each of us) as the individual is universalising.”
understanding of the universe would not be found merely in the examination of ‘ parts ’ but in the recognition of ‘ wholes ’ and the observation of process.
Holism and Evolution by Jan Christian Smuts – a re- evaluation after 90 years
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maladaptive to our too-quickly-culturally-evolved modernity
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When threatened with the possibility of starvation, early humans developed a survival response which sent them foraging for food. Yet foraging is only effective if metabolism is inhibited in various parts of the brain.Foraging requires focus, rapid assessment, impulsivity, exploratory behavior and risk taking. It is enhanced by blocking whatever gets in the way, like recent memories and attention to time. Fructose, a kind of sugar, helps damp down these centers, allowing more focus on food gathering.In fact, the researchers found the entire foraging response was set in motion by the metabolism of fructose whether it was eaten or produced in the body. Metabolizing fructose and its byproduct, intracellular uric acid, was critical to the survival of both humans and animals.The researchers noted that fructose reduces blood flow to the brain’s cerebral cortex involved in self-control, as well as the hippocampus and thalamus. Meanwhile, blood flow increased around the visual cortex associated with food reward. All of this stimulated the foraging response.
Seems like fasting may be beneficial:
The researchers found cerebral fructose levels rose significantly in response to a glucose infusion, with minimal changes in fructose levels in the blood. They surmised that the high concentration of fructose in the brain was due to a metabolic pathway called the polyol pathway that converts glucose to fructose.
And from elsewhere, as seems to be common knowledge:
In prolonged fasting, the brain derives a large portion of its oxidative energy from the ketone bodies, beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate, thereby reducing whole body glucose consumption.
See also: 1. Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reduces Signs of Dementia
Johnson suspects the survival response, what he calls the “survival switch,” that helped ancient humans get through periods of scarcity, is now stuck in the “on” position in a time of relative abundance. This leads to the overeating of high fat, sugary and salty food prompting excess fructose production.Fructose produced in the brain can lead to inflammation and ultimately Alzheimer’s disease, the study said. Animals given fructose show memory lapses, a loss in the ability to navigate a maze and inflammation of the neurons.“A study found that if you keep laboratory rats on fructose long enough they get tau and amyloid beta proteins in the brain, the same proteins seen in Alzheimer’s disease,” Johnson said. “You can find high fructose levels in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s as well.”Johnson suspects that the tendency of some AD patients to wander off might be a vestige of the ancient foraging response.
both evolution and learning must fit the same 00:10:33 formal regularities or so-called laws how does an organism know how to evolve okay so there must be some sort of process that requires that 00:10:46 it be unseen otherwise what you would have is the organism continuing to do what it does with its familiarness
around that same time i got a call from my daughter you know leave it to your kids and she said you know mom it's 00:03:48 just that all the problems we're dealing with in the world right now are insidious and um you know it came up last night siva was talking about the insidiousness 00:04:01 of the facebook problem and and this was an unlocker for me of what what does it mean for something to be insidious so i looked it up and i started to 00:04:14 explore and it turns out that insidious is defined and i think this is from the you know the oxford on the internet not the original but um that there's proceeding in a gradual 00:04:27 subtle way but with very harmful effects in other words there's something that's that's gathering combining in an unseen way that's leading to danger
I really highly recommend Robert Hazen's _Story of Earth_ [1] if you're into this sort of stuff. Highly knowledgeable and entertaining geologist argues that the geosphere and the biosphere should really be viewed as one co-evolving system, over deep time. There are thousands of species of minerals that can only exist because of the action of life, and those minerals in turn enable new forms of life, which enable new species of mineral, and so on in a complex and ever evolving system within which we exist for only a fraction of an instant.[1] https://www.amazon.com/Story-Earth-Billion-Stardust-Living/d...
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Humans are especially good at filling new ecological niches “because we have the capacity to learn how to survive in new environments,” Goldstein said. “Once your parents learn an adaptive skill, you’ll learn from them. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel.”
while I was listening to all of you and to our wonderful scientists 00:57:28 I thought of something that the distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson wrote shortly before he died he said he believed that 00:57:40 the speed of cultural Evolution the speed of cultural evolution is now faster than the speed of biological evolution so 00:57:53 what does that mean to me it's something very simple it means that we now hold our destiny in our hands and that's what you're all talking about
!- quotable : Freeman Dyson - the speed of cultural evolution is now faster than the speed of biological evolution - references on the speed of cultural evolution: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=stopresetgo&max=50&any=Cultural+evolution - Freeman Dyson essay on biological and cultural evolution: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fviahtml.hypothes.is%2Fconversation%2Ffreeman_dyson-biological-and-cultural-evolution&group=world
Our double task is now to preserve and foster both biological evolution as Nature designed it and cultural evolution as we invented it, trying to achieve the benefits of both, and exercising a wise restraint to limit the damage when they come into conflict. With biological evolution, we should continue playing the risky game that nature taught us to play. With cultural evolution, we should use our unique gifts of language and art and science to understand each other, and finally achieve a human society that is manageable if not always peaceful, with wildlife that is endlessly creative if not always permanent.
!- Dual task: wrt biological and cultural evolution
In the near future, we will be in possession of genetic engineering technology which allows us to move genes precisely and massively from one species to another. Careless or commercially driven use of this technology could make the concept of species meaningless, mixing up populations and mating systems so that much of the individuality of species would be lost. Cultural evolution gave us the power to do this. To preserve our wildlife as nature evolved it, the machinery of biological evolution must be protected from the homogenizing effects of cultural evolution.
!- Progress trap : genetic engineering - careless use of genetic engineering will interfere with biological evolution
The discoveries of Svante Pääbo show that as early as fifty thousand years ago the transition from biological to cultural evolution was already far advanced. Biological evolution, as demonstrated by Kimura and Goodenough, accelerated the birth of new species by favoring the genetic isolation of small populations. Cultural evolution had the opposite effect, erasing differences between related species and bringing them together. Cultural evolution happens when cousins learn each other's languages and share stories around the cave-fire. As a consequence of cultural evolution, biological differences become less important and cousins learn to live together in peace. Sharing of memes brings species together and sharing of genes is the unintended consequence.
!- The story of human evolution : is the story of hybrid biological and cultural evolution - Svante Paabo shows that 50,000 years ago biological evolution was already deeply affected by human cultural evolution - biological evolution favoured genetic isolation of small populations, like cave dwellers during the ice age - when cultural evolution took over between Neanderthal, Denisovan and Early ancestors of modern humans and memes drove inter species socialisation, crossbreeding LED to mixing and sharing of genes as an unintended consequences
the cultural evolution of creative new societies requires more elbow-room than a single planet can provide. Creative new societies need room to take risks and make mistakes, far enough away to be effectively isolated from their neighbors. Life must spread far afield to continue the processes of genetic drift and diversification of species that drove evolution in the past. The restless wandering that pulled our species out of Africa to explore the Earth will continue to pull us beyond the Earth, as far as our technology can reach.
!- expansion into outer space : natural consequence of evolution itself to continue genetic drift
!- comment : Dyson Extrapolates that expansion into outer space is a logical next step for evolution
In each case, a small population produced a star-burst of pioneers who permanently changed our way of thinking. Genius erupted in groups as well as in individuals. It seems likely that these bursts of creative change were driven by a combination of cultural with biological evolution. Cultural evolution was constantly spreading ideas and skills from one community to another, stirring up conservative societies with imported novelties. At the same time, biological evolution acting on small genetically isolated populations was causing genetic drift, so that the average intellectual endowment of isolated communities was rising and falling by random chance. Over the last few thousand years, genetic drift caused occasional star-bursts to occur, when small populations rose to outstandingly high levels of average ability. The combination of imported new ideas with peaks of genetic drift would enable local communities to change the world.
!- explaining human history : combination of cultural and biological evolution
The contribution of genetic drift to cultural evolution remains a speculative hypothesis.
!- connection : genetic drift and cultural evolution - still no compelling evidence
As a result of cultural evolution, a single species now dominates the ecology of our planet, and cultural evolution will dominate the future of life so long as any species with a living culture survives. When we look ahead to imagine possible futures for our descendants, cultural evolution must be our dominant concern. But biological evolution has not stopped and will not stop. As cultural evolution races ahead like a hare, biological evolution will continue its slow tortoise crawl to shape our destiny.
!- quotable : Cultural Evolution
Wells's biggest work is Outline of History, published in 1920, a picture of cultural evolution as the main theme of history since the emergence of our species.
!- H.G. Wells : Outline of history - cultural evolution as the main theme
Cultural evolution had its beginnings as soon as animals with brains evolved, using their brains to store information and using patterns of behavior to share information with their offspring. Social species of insects and mammals were molded by cultural as well as biological evolution. But cultural evolution only became dominant when a single species invented spoken language. Spoken language is incomparably nimbler than the language of the genes.
!- Herbert Wells : Cultural Evolution
Wells saw that we happen to live soon after a massive shift in the history of the planet, caused by the emergence of our own species. The shift was completed about ten thousand years ago, when we invented agriculture and started to domesticate animals. Before the shift, evolution was mostly biological. After the shift, evolution was mostly cultural. Biological evolution is usually slow, when big populations endure for thousands or millions of generations before changes become noticeable. Cultural evolution can be a thousand times faster, with major changes occurring in two or three generations. It has taken about two hundred thousand years for our species to evolve biologically from its or
!- modern humans : unique species adept at cultural evolution
Motoo Kimura, author of the book, The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, published in 1983, more than a hundred years after Darwin's masterpiece.
!- Title : The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, published in 1983 !- Author : Motoo Kimura