maandag 10 mei 2004

evolution and rupert sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake Online
Morfogenetica, memory and adultery.
Why don't i know the time and place when adultery is commited when morfogenetic fields exist?
what about orthogenetic fields.
darwins misconception: the struggle for the fittest misconception
if darwinisme is a misconception, then it is the fittest one.
but will it win in nature?
or: if everything is competition then darwinism is also.
why did god create darwin?
de mens is de enigste soort die zich kan indenken een andere soort te zijn, is dit geest of geestelijk evolutie van geestelijke soorten?
the only way to know if darwins theory is wrong is by finding a (prehistoric) species that shouldn't fit in the line of descent and is never noticed before as odd.
Or gene-manipulaion.
or to pay for behaviour
how do animals adapt to humans (because we do not only kill them for food, as they do expect)
hoe kan 'doen alsof je iemand wil' een evolutionair voordeel zijn?
en hoe wordt (het beste) orgasme evolutionair doorgegeven?
monkey with 4 hands?
de mens als erosie voor de natuur
welk dier verdreef de dinosuariers (na 60 miljoen jaar)? geen, want die 'overwinnaars' kwamen pas na de meteoor
misschien is evolutie een strijd tussen leven en weten?
Why isn't a pigeon made for supersonic speed or under ground flying?
or why hadn't humans the ability to plug thier ears closed
man is the only beast that can act as if nature doesn't exist (and is to be fooled by consience)
dolphin sounds
what is democracy when people want a sick person to stay in power?
chinese supremacy for cultural advantage by acoustic brain deficit pag 163
meaning that they can't lose their abilty to write what they hear (because they write ideograms and not phonetic signs).
lactose (milk) deficiency outside europeans
waarom vind er geen herseninhoud overdracht plaats vlak voor de geboorte zou dat evolutionair niet voordeliger zijn?

donderdag 6 mei 2004

I'm not ugly, just asthetically challenged.

A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of
The Sublime and Beautiful
With Several Other Additions

Burke, Edmund. 1909 14. On the Sublime and Beautiful. Vol. 24, Part 2. The Harvard Classics

contents:

CONTENTS
Bibliographic Record
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001


Introductory Note

Part I.
Novelty
Pain and Pleasure
The Difference Between the Removal of Pain, and Positive Pleasure
Of Delight and Pleasure as Opposed to Each Other
Joy and Grief
Of the Passions Which Belong to Self-Preservation
Of the Sublime
Of the Passions Which Belong to Society
The Final Cause of the Difference Between the Passions Belonging to Self-Preservation and Those Which Regard the Society of the Sexes
Of Beauty
Society and Solitude
Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition
Sympathy
The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of Others
Of the Effects of Tragedy
Imitation
Ambition
The Recapitulation
The Conclusion

Part II.
Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime
Terror
Obscurity
Of the Difference Between Clearness and Obscurity with Regard to the Passions
The Same Subject Continued
Power
Privation
Vastness
Infinity
Succession and Uniformity
Magnitude in Building
Infinity in Pleasing Objects
Difficulty
Magnificence
Light
Light in Building
Colour Considered as Productive of the Sublime
Sound and Loudness
Suddenness
Intermitting
The Cries of Animals
Smell and Taste. Bitters and Stenches
Feeling. Pain

Part III.
Of Beauty
Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables
Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals
Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species
Proportion Further Considered
Fitness not the Cause of Beauty
The Real Effects of Fitness
The Recapitulation
Perfection not the Cause of Beauty
How Far the Idea of Beauty May be Applied to the Qualities of the Mind
How Far the Idea of Beauty May be Applied to Virtue
The Real Cause of Beauty
Beautiful Objects Small
Smoothness
Gradual Variation
Delicacy
Beauty in Colour
Recapitulation
The Physiognomy
The Eye
Ugliness
Grace
Elegance and Speciousness
The Beautiful in Feeling
The Beautiful in Sounds
Taste and Smell
The Sublime and Beautiful Compared

Part IV.
Of the Efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful
Association
Cause of Pain and Fear
Continued
How the Sublime is Produced
How Pain Can be a Cause of Delight
Exercise Necessary for the Finer Organs
Why Things not Dangerous Produce a Passion Like Terror
Why Visual Objects of Great Dimensions are Sublime
Unity, Why Requisite to Vastness
The Artificial Infinite
The Vibrations Must be Similar
The Effects of Succession in Visual Objects Explained
Locke’s Opinion Concerning Darkness Considered
Darkness Terrible in its Own Nature
Why Darkness is Terrible
The Effects of Blackness
The Effects of Blackness Moderated
The Physical Cause of Love
Why Smoothness is Beautiful
Sweetness, Its Nature
Sweetness, Relaxing
Variation, Why Beautiful
Concerning Smallness
Of Colour

Part V.
Of Words
The Common Effects of Poetry, Not by Raising Ideas of Things
General Words Before Ideas
The Effect of Words
Examples that Words May Affect Without Raising Images
Poetry not Strictly an Imitative Art
How Words Influence the Passions

"Rape the horses and ride off on the women!"

Stupid Story tsostc.htm

content:

PREFACE

# INTRODUCTION

Psychosocial Mechanism of Stupidity
Biocultural Basis of Stupidity
Pre-Western Stupidity
Non-Western Stupidity

# GREEK STUPIDITY
# ROMAN STUPIDITY
# MEDIEVAL STUPIDITY
# STUPIDITY REBORN
# STUPIDITY REFORMED
# REASONABLE STUPIDITY
# ENLIGHTENED STUPIDITY
# INDUSTRIAL STUPIDITY
# THE AGE OF ARROGANCE

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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