Currently, I work on three directions: (1) cell motility and the cytoskeleton, (2) modeling of physiology and diseases (such as autoimmune diabetes), and (3) swarming and aggregation behaviour
in social organisms.
We see Nature combining molecules and cells in the living body to construct separate individuals, and the same Nature, stubbornly pursuing the same course but on a higher level, combining individuals
in social organisms to obtain a higher order of psychic results.
Not exact matches
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.
Luckett, who co-wrote The
Social Organism with Michael J. Casey
in 2016 and co-founded theAudience with Facebook's founding president Sean Parker, says: «I'm not at all a fan of Facebook.
To be specific, a human being or higher - order animal
organism is an ongoing subject of experience
in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of
social order, within the
organism.
In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common
social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»
The school of
social functionalism examines the ways
in which society, considered as an
organism, attempts to contain and manage conflict, integrating disparate members and subgroups into the whole.
Highly evolved
organisms of a
social species who have outdone their already remarkably intelligent primate relatives
in intelligence and complexity of
social structure.
Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the
social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen
in which what is kept
in and what is left out is determined by the organic
social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total
organism's feeling - behaviour.»
The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are,
in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are
social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a
social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the
organism as a whole, and answers to what
in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.
It was the schooling
in local self - government and the institutions so developed back
in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a
social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community
in its struggle to live
in an alien environment.
Once the exceptional, but fundamentally biological, nature of the collective human complex is accepted, nothing prevents us (provided we take into account the modifications which have occurred
in the dimensions
in which we are working) from treating as authentic organs the diverse
social organisms which have gradually evolved
in the course of the history of the human race.
Thus animals for the most part have little or no
social organization, and
in this respect may be likened to single - celled
organisms.
Within this
social organism there would arise «a spiritual center, a supreme pole of consciousness, upon which all the separate consciousnesses of the world may converge and within which they may love one another».5 This super-consciousness would evolve
in the same way that personal consciousness does within the complex physiology of the human
organism.
«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization,
in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a
social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an
organism.
Which amounts to saying that the complexification of Matter, at the point it has now reached
in the human
social organism, is physically incapable of advancing further if the Mind does not play a part, not only with its capacity for technical organization, but with its purposive and affective powers of arrangement and inner tension.
Upon an imaginary earth of constantly increasing extent, living
organisms, being only loosely associated, might well remain at the mono - cellular stage (if indeed they got so far); and certainly Man, if free to live
in a scattered state, would never have reached even the neolithic stage of
social development.
But the decisive stages of this evolution are just those
in which, beyond a new and purely «
social» organization, there emerges the constitution of
organisms that, on a higher level from that of the unities they have integrated, can again count as true unitary beings.
This Christendom was such a living, complex unity that it could be likened to an
organism,
in the way any healthy homogeneous society can be called a
social organism.
The Church is neither an Epi - nor a Para-phenomenon
in the growth of the Human
Social Organism, but constitutes the very Axis (or Nucleus) about which it Forms
d The Christian phylum is not an accessory or divergent shoot
in the human
social organism, but constitutes the axis itself of socialization.
that this added energy, when it is made available to the human
social organism, can only be usefully and effectively employed
in one way: it must be transformed into research and creative work.
The progression from each stage to the next involves a process «of increasing differentiation and complexity of organization that endows the
organism,
social system, or whatever the unit
in question may be with greater capacity to adapt to its environment than... its less complex ancestors.
In order to forestall objections to his
social - organic theory, Hartshorne states that an electron or some similar ultimate particle may still be an
organism even though it has no parts.
When we pass to the next higher step
in the biologic hierarchy, the
social organism, we at once perceive a difficulty.
That still happens, but it's diffused around the globe
in ways that are difficult to see as part of an evolving, healthy
social organism (not that American industrialization was trouble free!).
It deals with self - regulating, self - controlling, and self - correcting processes
in machines, biological
organisms, and
social organizations.
It will resemble a healthy
organism, where each part has its appointed share
in the
social enterprise.
In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and
social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified
organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.
In governance we strive to apply Rudolf Steiner's concept of the threefold
social organism which meets the different qualities and requirements of the economic, legal, and cultural spheres.
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In coordination with institutional
organisms, researchers are also studying the
social impact of brestfeeding throughout history.
A «society» may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a
social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example,
in some formulations of artificial intelligence.
«DNA methylation is potentially a way through which
social dominance is regulated
in many
social organisms, including people,» Fernald said.
«Our hypothesis is that interferon gamma might have evolved as an efficient way to control the anti-pathogen response when
organisms are
social,» says Tony Filiano, a postdoctoral associate
in Kipnis» lab.
Social animals succeed
in nature because they have unique and powerful group traits that individual
organisms can't have.
The colonies of most ant species, including the harvester, are
social, cooperative, seamless
organisms, differing from what we think of as an individual
organism only
in that «they're not stuck together,» as Tschinkel puts it.
Qaim, of the University of Göttingen
in Germany, has been studying the
social and financial impacts of genetically modified
organisms for years.
And anything that focuses on a higher level of interaction between
social organisms, or involves the mind in any way (psychology, sociology) goes into SOCIAL SC
social organisms, or involves the mind
in any way (psychology, sociology) goes into
SOCIAL SC
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Instead, an
organism is always motivated to engage
in behaviors that maximize its genetic fitnesses
in an environmental and
social context.
193/6: 30 The hunt for rare disease diagnosis: Utilization of
social media, model
organisms, and pathway analysis
in pediatric exome sequencing.
For instance,
in the case of the animal level containing bi-dimensional or even single dimensional
organisms, the
social level, which is the level of animal coexistence, can only feed on the energy coming from their physical or physical - emotional level of interactions.
«
In man, social intercourse has centered mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of flui
In man,
social intercourse has centered mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the
organism, but
in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of flui
in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most
social significance is the excretion of fluid.
The statement, taken
in context, refers to Joseph Beuys» belief
in the potential of art and creativity to enable the fruition of his utopian vision, a
social organism as a work of art.
Anyone wanting to understand the human
organism as climate participant had better be willing to get dirty
in the
social sciences.
If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living
organisms to engineered products and mere cogs
in the
social machine.
With my ability to genetically modify
organisms to make new products on different scales, and exceptional insight into examining the
social and ethical concerns raised by communities, I can easily represent your organization behind the scenes, and
in front.
Meanwhile, the brain's regulatory networks seek to maintain the
organism in an organized and well - regulated mid-range comfort zone, and there are a variety of brain systems that act to maintain the integrated regulation of our emotions, behavior, and
social relationships.