Philosophy Wire: Dogs like children? Or is it just our imagination? [You find what you look for]

Researchers have found that dogs and 2-year-old children show similar patterns in social intelligence, much more so than human children and one of their closest relatives: chimpanzees. The research could help scientists better understand how humans evolved socially. [1] We like seeing the similarities. And it is true that one finds what he is looking for. We also share 99% of our DNA with the… bananas. Look at the banana closely. What does it say to you? Search for the differences. It is the only way to find them…

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Philosophy Wire: Evolution: Defining life!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-11-26]: Scientists claim that viruses are living organisms! Because we can trace back the evolution of their genes. [1]  Again: Because a specific scientific theory can analyze something, we consider it… alive!!

Wow.

Science creating life!
What we cannot understand is dead. Literally!

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Κανίβαλοι. Εξέλιξη. Προκατάληψη. Μη σκέψη. / Cannibals. Evolution. Prejudice. Non thinking.

Some cannibals were evolved so as to cope with a specific disease. [1] And this is considered a proof of the Theory of Evolution. But all other humans have not evolved in this way! We are always seeing the things we want to see. We will never learn unless we stop thinking…

Μερικοί κανίβαλοι εξελίχθηκαν ώστε να αντιμετωπίζουν μια ασθένεια. [1] Και αυτό θεωρείται απόδειξη της Θεωρίας της Εξέλιξης. Όμως όλοι εμείς οι άλλοι δεν εξελιχθήκαμε έτσι! Πάντα βλέπουμε αυτό που θέλουμε να δούμε. Ποτέ δεν θα μάθουμε αν δεν σταματήσουμε να σκεφτόμαστε…

Philosophy Wire: Theory of Evolution without evolution. A paspartu to all truths...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-02-25]: Wedged inside rocks in the deep sea off the coast of Western Australia lurks an organism that hasn’t evolved in more than 2 billion years, scientists say. And this seems to be in accordance with the Theory of Evolution. [1] Eveything is compatible with any theory. Because every theory has exceptions. Name things carefully and you will discover that the truth is where you began from: inside your mind.

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Philosophy Wire: Evolution. Predictability. Skakos Zen.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-12-02]: A longstanding question among scientists is whether evolution is predictable. A team of researchers from University of California Santa Barbara may have found a preliminary answer. The genetic underpinnings of complex traits in cephalopods may in fact be predictable because they evolved in the same way in two distinct species of squid. [1] But how can anything not predictable be an object of science, as we have stupidly defined science today? Only when we stop believing things are predictable, when we have accepted chaos, when we see the unpredictable in the eye, will we be part of the world as it it and not as we would like it to be. Stop trying to predict everything and everything will become predictable...

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Philosophy Wire: Evolution. Mutations. Humans.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-14]: Humans trying to erase genetic mutations. [1] We are against evolution. We live against evolution. We act against evolution. We are the masters of our destiny. And  too much afraid to admit it...

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Philosophy Wire: Mindless gears...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-10-03]: An insect seems to have functional gears in its legs. [1] Some found it incredible that the "mindless process of evolution" created something like this. Well, other could interpret it in exactly the opposite way...

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Philosophy Wire: Sterilization - The "civilized" answer to problems

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-09-02]: A court has decided that a mentally impaired man should be sterilized in the UK. [1] Civilization at its best. All our technology in the service of the "species improvement". Humanism gone. Long live evolution!

PS. Watch out for the "There have been cases before of women ordered by the courts to undergo sterilisation, but never of a man" at the BBC page reporting the news! Sterilization for women is something normal to happen! It is because in this case we had a man sterilized that this case hit the news!

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Philosophy Wire: Reproduction without sex... - A stunning possibility.

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-08-24]: An organism which reproduces itself asexually. Instead of having sex it just takes the genes it needs from other organisms - organisms from other species or even organisms that do not belong in the same category of life! - in order to evolve. [1] If all of our definitions related to the theory of evolution are based on heredity and sexual reproduction, then how stupid do we really are?

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Philosophy Wire: Penises, evolution, reasons...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-06-16]: The reason why some bird lost their penises remain unclear. [1] And yet we try to imagine a reason. Everything must have a reason. Everything must be following the evolutionary logic. Because we say so.

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Philosophy Wire: Palm trees, toucans, evolution...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-06-08]: Specific palm trees are becoming extinct following the extinction rate of birds (toucans) with which they are evolutionary interconnected. [1] Who said evolution mechanisms can only be linked to survival?

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Philosophy Wire: Two feet animal standing, climber... (?)

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-29]: A new study by archaeologists at the University of York challenges evolutionary theories behind the development of our earliest ancestors from tree dwelling quadrupeds to upright bipeds capable of walking and scrambling. The researchers say our upright gait may have its origins in the rugged landscape of East and South Africa which was shaped during the Pliocene epoch by volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates. [1]

Too bad.

The version which wanted us to stand upright because we wanted to look at the stars in the sky was much more nice and romantic...

At the end it may all come down to what we want to believe for our selves.

Are we climbers? Or Philosophers?

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Philosophy Wire: What? I can't hear you.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-16]:

A new research sheds light on how the human ear evolved. [source: web news] It is most likely that our ancestors could not hear too well the frequencies in which we speak today. However these 2 million old bones are almost similar to our today. And unlike other bones of the skeleton, the ossicles are already fully formed and adult-sized at birth. This indicates that their size and shape is under very strong genetic control. Someone wants us to hear Bon Jovi from a very young age. Music is the essence of the world. Just listen you primitive man!

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Philosophy Wire: Cross-species genetics and the dim lines of definitions…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-06]: If cross-species genetics is possible [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], shouldn’t we think again the definition of “species”?

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Philosophy Wire: Russel against Theory of Evolution...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-18]: The true founder of the Theory of Evolution was against the application of his theory in humans. He claimed that human mind makes us immune to evolutionary change (we can think of how to go to Antarctica without waiting evolution bring us furs). He claimed that every human has a sort of pre-installed idle intelligence somewhere in his brain/mind (which allows us to examine new notions for which we should not already have the logical structures for their examination and which would allow a primitive man coming in the 21st century to understand concepts like mathematics) - even though we know that evolution does not act proactively. [see book “Phantoms in the brain” of V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee] Old thoughts... long gone... Forgotten... Erased... Imposed "consensus" in the scientific community has decided on what is "correct"... Humans not using their mind will prove it...

 

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Philosophy Wire: Neanderthals, big eyes, stupid brain...?!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-03-13]:

A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species. As a result, more of their brains were devoted to seeing in the long, dark nights in Europe, at the expense of high-level processing. [source: BBC News]

If you ask me, this is an over-simplyfied analysis. Bigger eyes => more processing of visual images => less processing power left for other thinking? Wow! Who 5-year-old kindergardeen student came up with this "high level thinking" argument? Simplification, serial way of thinking, analogies: the guarranteed way for failure in science.

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Philosophy Wire: Dust, reversible evolution, new ideas…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-03-10]: It seems that Dollo’s law is not valid. Scientists have found a case of reversible evolution in the dust of our houses. [source: Science News] If reversible evolution is possible, then how can we be certain of where we are in the evolutionary path? Could it be that we are the “bacteria” and the bacteria are the “humans”?

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Philosophy Wire: Neanderthal, humans, change…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-21]: Harvard's Prof George Church claims he has technology to clone Neanderthal DNA but needs woman brave enough to give birth to it. [source: web news] How would being pregnant to a Neanderthal baby be different from being pregnant to a Homo Sapiens baby? Do species realize that they change as the change is happening?

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Philosophy Wire: Fighting, hands, evolution, prejudice...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-20]: US researchers say that fighting may have contributed to the evolution of the human hand into a strong, buttressed structure when made into a fist. [source: BBC News] The key word here is... "may". I have siad it again and I will repeat myself once more: Scientists and science-proponents too easily accept such words when they spek, but they easily critisize theists or religious people for using the same word. From them, they demand precision and accuracy in their saying… For many people the human hand may have evolved in the way it did without knowing details about how or why it did so, but the Universe cannot have a First cause… because!

 
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Philosophy Wire: Biggest extinction, revenge of the microbes, “evolution”…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-16]: Scientists believe, according to a new study, that a humble microbe, instead of a devastating meteorite or a catastrophic volcanic eruption, wiped off over 90 percent of the species on Earth (including my favorite trilobites) 251-million-years ago. [source: web news] Well, if a microbe is the reason for the extinction of “more evolved” species, what does that say about the Theory of… “Evolution” ?!? No matter how well we think of things, microbes and bacteria will always be the champions of survival ready to test the limits of our theories…

 

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