Guyau Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 A view of man . . . is not a primary; it rests on metaphysics and epistemology . . . . However, a philosophic view of man is not exhausted by metaphysics and epistemology, nor does it at every point follow deductively from them; fresh observations are required. . . . (Peikoff 1991, 188)If a fundamental difference is one which has enormous, pervasive manifestations, then the most fundamental difference among entities we perceive is that between the animate and the inanimate. . . . Man is a certain kind of living organism. What is an organism? (189)The fact of life—of conditional, goal-directed entities—has profound philosophical significance. It is a key to the nature of man and . . . a necessary and sufficient condition to the existence of values. (191)The Origin of Life on the EarthLeslie E. Orgel Scientific American (Oct 1994)Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of the RNA WorldLeslie E. Orgel (2004) Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39(2):99–123.A Simpler Origin for LifeRobert Shapiro Scientific American (Jun 2007)Synthesizing LifeJack W. Szostak, David P. Bartel, and P. Luigi Luisi (2001) Nature 409:387–390Designing a New Molecule of LifePeter E. Nielsen Scientific American (Dec 2008)What Is Life?Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic BiologyEd RegisFarrar, Straus and Giroux 2008Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living MatterEdited by S. Rasmussen, M. A. Bedau, L. Chen, D. Deamer, D. C. Krakauer, N. H. Packard, and P. F. StadlerMIT 2008From the mineral periodotite, together with water, CO2, and geothermal heat, come organic compounds good for making life (without sunlight): the organic acids formate and acetate as well as gases such as methane. At Lost City Hydrothermal Fields, the proportion of carbon 13 to carbon 12 in the lipids of native microbes is not the proportion in carbon derived from CO2-producing organisms. Life on earth may have emerged in vent systems similar to Lost City.Scientific American – December 2009 (pages 62–67)Alexander S. Bradley (See also.)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rand’s Concept of BiologyPart 1Part 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonid Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 (edited) A view of man . . . is not a primary; it rests on metaphysics and epistemology . . . . However, a philosophic view of man is not exhausted by metaphysics and epistemology, nor does it at every point follow deductively from them; fresh observations are required. . . . (Peikoff 1991, 188)If a fundamental difference is one which has enormous, pervasive manifestations, then the most fundamental difference among entities we perceive is that between the animate and the inanimate. . . . Man is a certain kind of living organism. What is an organism? (189)The fact of life—of conditional, goal-directed entities—has profound philosophical significance. It is a key to the nature of man and . . . a necessary and sufficient condition to the existence of values. (191)The Origin of Life on the EarthLeslie E. Orgel Scientific American (Oct 1994)Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of the RNA WorldLeslie E. Orgel (2004) Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39(2):99–123.A Simpler Origin for LifeRobert Shapiro Scientific American (Jun 2007)Synthesizing LifeJack W. Szostak, David P. Bartel, and P. Luigi Luisi (2001) Nature 409:387–390Designing a New Molecule of LifePeter E. Nielsen Scientific American (Dec 2008)What Is Life?Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic BiologyEd RegisFarrar, Straus and Giroux 2008Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living MatterEdited by S. Rasmussen, M. A. Bedau, L. Chen, D. Deamer, D. C. Krakauer, N. H. Packard, and P. F. StadlerMIT 2008From the mineral periodotite, together with water, CO2, and geothermal heat, come organic compounds good for making life (without sunlight): the organic acids formate and acetate as well as gases such as methane. At Lost City Hydrothermal Fields, the proportion of carbon 13 to carbon 12 in the lipids of native microbes is not the proportion in carbon derived from CO2-producing organisms. Life on earth may have emerged in vent systems similar to Lost City.Scientific American – December 2009 (pages 62–67)Alexander S. Bradley (See also.)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rand’s Concept of BiologyPart 1Part 2 Edited January 11, 2010 by Leonid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonid Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Man is a certain kind of living organism. What is an organism?"" A material system is an organism if, and only if, it is closed to efficient causation...We claim that everything else about organisms, everything studied in biology by biologists, and much else beside, arises from and devolves upon this property" (Life itself, by Rosen, Ch.10). Values exist only because man as any living organism can anticipate future goals and act upon them. These goals are the cause of his actions. "...the senses can only provide a subset of the needed information; the organism must correct the measured values and guess at the needed missing ones."..."Indeed, even the best guesses can only be an approximation to reality - perception is a creative process." (Fischler and Firschein, 1987, 233). Or as Ayn Rand put it " to know how to want-isn't it life itself?" (We, The Living). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 Lab runs a natural selection taking single-cell organisms to multicellular cooperative clusters: YeastOne step in pursuit of an entirely artificial living cell: Self-Assembling Cell MembraneThose stories and other like them are available from Greg, who is maintaining a growing collection of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 You might find this interesting also.http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-formBa'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 .A chromosome of yeast has now been made by man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 .A chromosome of yeast has now been made by man.That raises my hopes as well as my bread.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 It is actually an incredible advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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