Chapters from the Book Standards for Behavioral Commitments: Philosophy of Humanism, and more!
1.Mating and Birthing The function of mating and birthing is obviously reproduction, sustaining the existence of an organism’s species and passing along traits that made reproduction possible. It is easy to see the kind of advantage reproduction enables: a nonreplicating bacterium can be outnumbered one to a million in less than a day. The eukaryotic … Continue reading Behavioral Functions
a. The concept of biological evolution ‘Evolution’ in biology is a general term for the understanding we have of how reproduction in organic life works. The core insight, obvious enough to be almost instinctive, is that offspring are related to their parents, and traits of lineages can be selected for, mixed and matched predictably, on … Continue reading Evolutionary History
a. The functional arbitrariness of language-influenced thought Despite a vast variety of circumstances in which humans apply reasoning, the basics are the same, an intrastructural connectivity provisional of extrapolative and interpolative inferencing, mapped onto the causality observed and inspected as we perceive and conceive. Psychical blending of the unconscious with perceptual, conceptual and inferential association as well as intentionality, reflection and … Continue reading The Conjoined Evolution of Conception, Language and Sociality
It is unlikely that a mutation from changes to the genetic code during transcription of the DNA sequence has caused widespread alteration in traits of the human immune system, at least since the origin of our species, unless there is some phenomenon of transmission between individuals we know nothing about. Beneficial mutations are too rare to alone be an explanation for … Continue reading Immunity and the Institution of Health Care
Homo sapiens may have descended from a monkeylike species forced to spend more time on the ground as the Earth entered a period of cooling sometime between fifty and twenty million years ago, during which the amount of jungle shrank dramatically. The largest of these primates would have no doubt been most successful at exploiting land-based food … Continue reading The Food Supply’s Central Role in the Origins of Our Species and in Culture
One of the most apparent aspects of modern theory is its intimate relationship with language. Settings where theories are taught, applied and analyzed often feature a barrage of verbiage, and this becomes truer the farther individuals advance professionally. It seems language is a condition of the possibility for highly developed theoretical frameworks: spoken and written … Continue reading The Synergistic Function and Coevolution of Language and Theoretical Thought
The Big Bang theory is science's leading model of how our universe began, offering an explanation for background radiation that would have been produced by explosiveness of this event, also the way more distant galaxies seemingly accelerate into empty space at a faster clip, and more phenomena. This theory claims an extremely dense point of matter … Continue reading The Origins and Evolution of Perception in Organic Matter
Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of modern life is its specialization. There are as many hobbies as individuals to pursue them, as many different products as citizens to purchase them, as many job descriptions as employees to practice them, as many working financial models as successful businesses, and as many subcultures as can be realized. … Continue reading Life, Culture, and the Modern Episteme
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