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Tag Archives: Biology
Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril
By Jeremy Lent Source: resilience From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature is deeply embedded in Western thought, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences. Climate change, avers … Continue reading
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Tagged Biology, Climate Change, Consciousness, culture, DNA, Ecology, environment, Genetic Engineering, geoengineering, Life, mechanistic worldview, nature, Philosophy, science, Scientific Revolution, Self-Organization, society, Technocracy
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The Complexity of Cultural Evolution
By Joe Brewer Source: Resilience What does the ecological crisis have in common with global poverty? How does politics relate to economics? The study of history? The changing landscape of technology, arts, and culture? Why is there not a coherent School … Continue reading
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Tagged Biological Systems, Biology, complexity science, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Cultural Transformation, culture, Culture Design, Ecological Crisis, environment, Evolution, evolutionary studies, Mind, politics
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Terror Cells
Ain’t no cure for dystopian biology By Barbara Ehrenreich Source: The Baffler At around the turn of the millennium, some disturbing findings surfaced in the biomedical literature. Macrophages—immune cells whose function is to attack and kill microbes and other threats … Continue reading
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Tagged Biology, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Immunology, Macrophages, Natural Selection, Oncology, science
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