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Biocivilisations
- A New Look at the Science of Life
- De: Predrag B. Slijepcevic, Vandana Shiva - foreword
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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What is life? Many scientists believe life can be reduced to ‘mechanistic’ factors, such as genes and information codes. Yet there is a growing army of scientists, philosophers and artists who reject this view. The gene metaphor is not only too simplistic but deeply misleading. If there is a way to reduce life to a single principle, that principle must acknowledge the creativity of life, turning genetic determinism on its head.
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- De Ryan sweet en 10-16-23
- Biocivilisations
- A New Look at the Science of Life
- De: Predrag B. Slijepcevic, Vandana Shiva - foreword
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser
A daring vision of Biology for the modern age
Revisado: 07-01-23
A deeply compelling ecological argument for a new vision of Biology that gives due credit to the real inventors of civilization, art, consciousness, and creativity.
It is relatively common to see naturalists compare other members of the animal kingdom to humans - remarking on their humanlike attributes and their own form of intelligence. However, Biocivilizations goes a step further and shows how ALL kingdoms of life from fungal to bacterial exhibit marks of mindfulness, awareness, and civilization.
A must-read vision for the challenges facing the scientific world in the modern era, and a sharp rebuke of the NeoDarwinist status quo that denies the agency of "lower life" and treats biology as mechanical determinist systems.
We cannot claim to work for the betterment of the ecological world if we do not understand it, and if we continue to claim that humans have sole ownership of concepts such as free will, creativity, engineering, and civilization. I can only hope ideas such as the ones bravely proposed by Slijepcevic and his peers can be incorporated into the scientific understanding.
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