The organisms of language have now been overshadowed
by the organisms of economics, and the result is both joyful and ceremonious.
There, Liu spotted what many other paleontologists before him had somehow missed: a series of sinuous traces thought to be left behind
by organisms of the Ediacaran biota, the planet's earliest known forms of animal life.
Not exact matches
Biological
organisms attempt to fight the chaos
of the physical world
by organizing themselves into cells and more complex
organisms.
The Great Barrier Reef has been damaged
by agricultural runoff from farms and
by coral - devouring crown -
of - thorns starfish, which liquify coral
organisms.
According to the Oxford research, companies that ply in fine arts, originality, negotiation, persuasion, social perceptiveness and assisting or caring for others are in the least danger
of being overtaken
by Schwarzenegger - like T - 800 cybernetic
organisms.
The WTO decreed in a complaint brought
by the U.S., Canada and Argentina that the EU had violated its WTO obligations
by creating «undue delays» in the approval
of genetically modified
organisms (GMOs).
Not sure what you mean
by «genetic information», but evolution requires changes in the genes
of the next generation
of organism, which is exactly what happens with gene duplication, transposition, etc..
If it increases the survival probability
of the
organism (measured
by, well more
of them live) then it stays in future generations.
You can argue that the original
organism had better eyesight than others
of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to occur in the first place, and if there was a change in the first animal the interconnectedness
of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the chance change — which
by the way required the loss
of genetic material — to have happened regardless
of the amount
of time you had.
The evidence is simply overwhelming and
of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living
organisms which are
of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained
by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..
The fossil record which shows millions
of years
of stable species, then an explosion
of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex
organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance
of most species in the geologic record and the lack
of evidence
of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including
by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection
of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia
That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation
of religion were to become widely accepted
by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features
of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social
organisms.
God created Adam from a handful
of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair
of each
organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds
of years; a man who was swallowed
by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar
of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.
The various metaphors from nature, on the other hand —
organism, process, body, ground
of being — tend to rule out full explication
of the historical dimension as it is attested
by the biblical writers.
The only answer which is plausible can be given
by the biological theory
of knowledge: in the same way as our perception carves Out
of the whole physical reality only that zone which has practical importance for our
organism, only those recollections which are relevant to our present situation are transmitted into our present moment.
Just as the flow
of a stream is determined
by a specific landscape, so it seems that the growth and development
of the proteins follow an «epigenetic landscape» which is extraneous to the physico - chemical forces that energize the growth process.8 And just as the geographical landscape is extraneous to the flow
of water
by the power
of gravitation, so the epigenetic landscape is extraneous to the «flow»
of energized matter operating
by physico - chemical forces in the
organism's epigenesis.
If persons were only intelligent
organisms with finite wants, the problem
of adjusting demand and supply could in principle be easily settled
by rational calculation.
Some non-mechanical causative principle
of order is required to explain, for example, why the molecules
of living beings come together into specific shapes, why
organisms develop specific characteristics or have the capacity to regulate their metabolism or readjust and reintegrate themselves holistically when injured or when challenged
by their environment.
And finally, an important observation is furnished
by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human
organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes
of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15
Patentization
of the process, produce, and living
organisms, is facilitation
of predatory operation
by foreign corporate power.
Apr. 19, 2013 — An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor
of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism
by which evolution can change the appearance
of an
organism.
It is a continuously developing
organism, so the history
of the church — indeed
of any religion — is a story
of continuity and change and the church today has been shaped
by the past.
Scientific reductionism, however, wants to reduce biology to physics and chemistry, to explain the properties
of «life»,
by thorough specification
of the particulars (atoms and molecules) that are integrated into cells and
organisms.
It is certainly true that the healthy body, controlled
by the healthy mind, will successfully resist all kinds
of disease - producing
organisms.
But what we are trying to describe,
by each
of these abstract terms, is essentially dependent for its reality upon the continuous functioning
of the total
organism, with all its essential physical organs and biochemical processes.
The church is an
organism brought into being
by the unique series
of events associated with the life and death
of Jesus
of Nazareth.
The evidence is that biological evolution has proceeded continuously since that distant time
by evolution
of populations
of living
organisms through natural selection
of best procreators.
Many
of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality
of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality
of life» approach, which determines the moral value
of each
organism — whether human, animal, or plant —
by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.
Scientists may think they have good reasons for believing that living
organisms evolved naturally from nonliving chemicals, or that complex organs evolved
by the accumulation
of micromutations through natural selection, but having reasons is not the same as having proof.
It's an expression
of the leader's trust in the releasable inner resources
of each individual, trust in the group as a potentially helpful
organism, and trust in the process
by which the people dynamic in individuals and groups is released.
What makes DNA do its work is not its chemistry but the order
of the bases along the DNA chain: It is this order which is a code to be read out
by the developing
organism.
The very phrase, a «philosophy
of organism,» used
by Whitehead so often to capture the tenor
of his approach, remains a challenge to attend to the interconnectedness and interdependence which deserves to be appreciated as contributing substantively to any organic whole.
Structures found in nature are too complex to have evolved step -
by - step through natural selection [the concept
of «irreducible complexity «1]: Natural selection does not require that all structures have the same function or even need to be functional at each step in the development
of an
organism.
This amounts to the doctrine that an
organism is «alive» when in some measure its reactions are inexplicable
by any tradition
of pure physical inheritance» (PR 159).
Such is Locke's conclusion, a conclusion which one might conceivably interpret as an objection to the very possibility
of a philosophy
of organism along the lines laid out
by Whitehead.
This was not to be one further elucidation
of Whitehead's «philosophy
of organism,» but Leclerc's own detailed recounting
of how we must recover a few basic presuppositions if we are ever to elucidate a philosophy
of nature worthy
of our post-Whiteheadian era — an era unhappily determined to grapple with the complexities
of contemporary science
by leaving Whitehead aside.
All
of these — animals, cells and atoms — are thus called «
organisms»
by Whitehead, one
of Hartshorne's main sources for his psychicalism.
It also serves as a warning to us that the tension between
organism and atomism, between our appreciation
of the physical existence
of constituents and
of complex bodies, is not likely to be resolved simply
by attending more closely to the details in Process and Reality, chapter and verse.
What is wanted is an appreciation
of the infinite variety
of vivid values achieved
by an
organism in its proper environment.
And every
organism is oriented
by its own drives to move beyond its immediate environment toward the future
of itself and its species.
According to his model, personality is conceived as a dynamic living
organism made up
of a number
of interacting dynamisms and subdynamisms recognizable
by a recurring pattern
of identity.
A fuller understanding
of what Whitehead means
by «actual world» would help one to contextualize the matrix within which the formation
of security operations
by an
organism occur.
DNA / RNA and proteins are
by far the most important components
of a living
organism, carrying out virtually every function in a cell.
And so it follows that the opus humanum laboriously and gradually achieved within us
by the growth
of knowledge and in the face
of evil, is something quite other than an act
of higher morality: it is a living
organism.
The dynamism
of the feeling
of subjective immediacy is a vectorial tending forward, an appetition toward a «more,» which urges the
organism beyond domination
by the conformal quality
of physical feeling.
Study
of how
organisms develop reveals that no trait is wholly fixed
by either heredity or environment, but that every feature
of a person is a product
of a long series
of interactions between the growing individual and his surrounding world.
They are «dimly conscious» in two senses: (1) as experiences, they do not normally rise to the stature
of conscious centers competing for control
of the
organism, but they have appetitions and aversions in their own right so that it seems appropriate to label them «dimly conscious»; (2) they are perceived only dimly
by the members
of the regnant society, i.e., the regnant society has these particular occasions as dim, vaguely felt, negative «scars» on the data
of what is clearly perceived in full consciousness.
Until the student
of origins can produce repeated examples
of spontaneous generation (living
organisms created entirely from non-living matter) followed
by an evolutionary process, his speculations remain in the realm
of philosophy and outside the strict standards
of modern science.
Whitehead's philosophy
of organism is an attempt to restate the Creek conception
by extending features
of human experiencing to subhuman forms.
A decentered Whiteheadian vision suggests a world where larger and larger patterns
of meaning and order emerge gradually, fitfully, and unevenly from the churning multiplicity
of value centers constituted
by the sophisticated occasions regnant in living
organisms.