Edward O. Wilson and sociobiology
"He rejected claims for a genetic basis of hierarchy and downplayed IQ, a fetish of the right, as ‘only one subset of … intelligence’. In an interview with the New York Times, he explained, ‘I see maybe 10 percent of human behaviour as genetic and 90 percent environmental’. "
"Wilson wrote copiously and passionately on the threat of extinction caused by the destruction of ecosystems, including a stint editing the journal BioDiversity in 1988. Against ‘spurious’ claims that humanity was merely acting as another ‘Darwinian agent’ by causing species’ extinction, he noted that the ‘rate of extinction is now about 400 times that recorded through recent geological time and is accelerating rapidly’."
THE RACE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND DATA IN MEDICINE
Researchers, doctors and biologists benefit from the massive amount of available information as health data becomes digitized. But it also becomes harder and harder for human brains to uncover the complexity and extract insights. Data is generated at a much faster pace than knowledge. This is THE scientific challenge. We need to create the tools to help human collective intelligence extract knowledge from this influx of data. Parts of these technologies already exist, parts need to be invented. OWKIN creates AI technologies to advance knowledge and discover the medicine of tomorrow.
HISTORY OWKIN was co-founded in 2016 by Thomas Clozel, MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical hematology and Gilles Wain
Yuval Noah Harari speaks with Impact Theory host, Tom Bilyeu. Yuval and Tom explore the potential implications of hacking humans, both the benefits and the r
According to Adobe, after about 20 minutes of listening to a voice, users can make the voice say whatever they want just by typing it out. Comedian and director Jordan Peele hosted the event and Adobe tech Zeyu Jin demoed the process by editing an interview with Peele’s comedic partner Keegan-Michael Key. Jin took existing audio of Key, then used the software to make him talk about making out with Peele instead of his wife.
L'utopia tranquilla delle piante, watch the video-conference live from Genova! Prof. Mancuso speaks about plants in Genova Watch the video here: http://www.festivalscienzalive.it/site/home/conferenze/utopia-tranquilla-delle-piante.html 02/11/2011
TED Talk July 2010. (362,593 Views) Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence. Stefano Mancuso is a founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization, from genetics to molecules, cells and ecological communities.
En artikel av Leonardo Vintiñi, i Epoch Times 12 oktober 2008 om Cleve Backsters experiment med växter och lögndetektorer i början av 1960-talet och prof Ian Baldwins uppföljande forskning . "Forskare runt om i världen fortsätter att komma med bevis för att växter är mycket mer än de primitiva och passiva varelser som vi en gång trodde. En sådan forskare är Ian Baldwin från institutionen för molekylär ekologi på Max Planck-institutet i Tyskland. Baldwin hävdar att växter inte bara kan avge kemiska substanser för att försvara sig själva mot rovinsekter, utan att de också faktiskt kan kommunicera sinsemellan genom en komplex vokabulär av nukleinsyror."