This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“God is thus entrenched in the Flow systems as a causal belief, but an unordered one. Within Flow, this is implemented as… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so… — Paul W. Ewald Copy Share Image
Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature… Without causation, nothing happens and… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert Copy Share Image
“Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is… — Sten F. Odenwald Copy Share Image
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James Copy Share Image
“While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she… — William James Copy Share Image
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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