Edward O. Wilson, Consilience 1998 ref Cosmology Cosmologist Brian Swimme concludes in a 1997 ... leash. ref name con E. O. Wilson, Consilience The Unity of Knowledge, New York, Knopf, 1998 ... url http www.froes.dds.nl WILSON.htm ref Consilience In his 1998 book Consilience The Unity of Knowledge ... the sciences with the humanities. Wilson prefers and uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis ... of Nature , 1996, Shearwater Books, ISBN 1 55963 215 1, with Laura Simonds Southworth Consilience ... more details
success, continue to provide usable frameworks for massive, growing data banks. See consilience ... success, continue to provide usable frameworks for massive, growing data banks see consilience . As an alternative to consilience, Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg has recently proposed a focus ... more details
primary sources date November 2009 Transhumanism Extropianism , also referred to as the philosophy of Extropy , is an evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition. Extropians believe that advances in science and technology will some day let people live indefinitely. An extropian may wish to contribute to this goal, e.g. by doing research and development or volunteering to test new technology. Extropianism describes a pragmatic consilience of transhumanist thought guided by a Proactionary principle proactionary approach to human evolution and social progress progress . Originated by a set of principles developed by Dr. Max More , The Principles of Extropy , ref Citation url http www.extropy.org principles.htm title Principles of Extropy Version 3.11 An evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition year 2003 author Max More publisher Extropy Institute ref extropian thinking places strong emphasis on rational thinking and practical optimism . According to More, these principles do not specify particular beliefs, technologies, or policies . Extropians share an optimistic view of the future , expecting considerable advances in computational power, life extension , nanotechnology and the like. Many extropians foresee the eventual realization of unlimited maximum life span s, and the recovery, thanks to future advances in biomedical technology, of those whose bodies brains have been preserved by means of cryonics . Extropy The term extropy , as an antonym to entropy , has been used frequently in academic literature. ref e.g., the Journal of American Chemical Society volume 40, page 1707 1918 ref Perhaps coincidentally, the term was used in a 1967 academic volume discussing cryogenics ref Cryogenics , IPC Science and Technology Press, vol. 7, pg. 225 1967 ref and in a 1978 academic volume of cybernetics . ref Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Cybernetics & Systems Curr ... more details
consilience to discuss the unification of knowledge between the different branches of learning. Opponent ... philosophers or men of science . Whewell also contributed the terms physicist , consilience ... more details
ref A third seminannual journal Consilience was launched in February 2008. ref http consiliencejournal.readux.org Consilience ref Study courses In recent years, there have been set up more and more study ... more details
File Chris Williams, Chendu, China.JPG thumb In Chengdu, China, with students and colleagues, 2008 Christopher Chris Williams born 1952, London is an English academic based at the Centre for International Education and Research , University of Birmingham , United Kingdom . He has also held posts at the universities of University of Bristol Bristol , University of Cairo Cairo , University of Cambridge Cambridge , University of London London and the United Nations University United Nations . He is an invited Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts RSA , and magistrate. At school he taught himself to play the trumpet and gained a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , London, aged 16. He then became Head of Brass teaching at Wells Cathedral School and a tutor at Dartington College of Arts . In 1980 he left the UK to teach at the Cairo Conservatoire , Egypt, working with Samha El Kholy , and was principal trumpet of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra . Here he became interested in disadvantage and poverty, and taught at the Al Noor Wal Amal School for blind children. In 1985 he broke the cultural boycott of South Africa to be a principal trumpet with the PACT SABC Symphony Orchestra, to experience apartheid . He taught music in the Alexandra, Gauteng township, and co founded the Johannesburg based education NGO for street working children, Street wise , ref http www.crin.org organisations viewOrg.asp?ID 941 ref with Jill Swart Kruger. This became the topic of a PhD, his first degree . He then held Fellowships from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation concerning disability rights, and the Economic and Social Research Council within the Global Environmental Change Programme. File Chris Williams PACT orchestra.jpg thumb A concert programme for the PACT Symphony Orchestra, South Africa, 1986. Approach Within the tradition of eclecticism selecting what is best from various sources or systems Williams uses Edward O.Wilson s multi disciplinary consilience ref Wilson, E.O. 1998 Con ... more details
approaches to literary study. They rally to Edward O. Wilson s cry for consilience among all the branches ..., SubStance 30.1&2 2001 6 27 http www.amazon.com dp 067976867X E. O Wilson chapter ten in ConsilienceConsilience The Unity of Knowledge 1998 . ref There are also proposed explanations for the structures ... more details
Image Geological time spiral.png thumb right 400px A schematic depiction of the major events in the history of our planet. Geochronology is the science of determining the age of rock geology rocks , fossil s, and sediment s, within a certain degree of uncertainty inherent to the method used. A variety of dating methods are used by geologists to achieve this, ref Renne, P.R., Ludwig, K.R. and Karner, D.B. 1998. Progress and challenges in geochronology. Science Progress , 83 , 107 121 http www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed 10800377 ref ref Noller, J.S., Sowers, J.M., and Lettis, W.R., 2000, Quaternary Geochronology Methods and Applications, American Geophysical Union, AGU Reference Shelf 4. ref and schemes of classification and terminology have been proposed. ref Colman, S. M., Pierce, K. L., and Birkeland, P. W., 1987, Suggested terminology for Quaternary dating methods Quaternary Research, v. 28, p. 314 319 ref The approach of using several methods is preferred for best results by consilience . Geochronology is different in application from biostratigraphy , which is the science of assigning sedimentary rocks to a known geological period via describing, cataloguing and comparing fossil floral and faunal assemblages. Biostratigraphy does not directly provide an absolute age determination of a rock, but merely places it within an interval of time at which that fossil assemblage is known to have coexisted. Both disciplines work together hand in hand however, to the point they share the same system of naming stratum rock layers and the time spans utilized to classify layers within a strata. The science of geochronology is the prime tool used in the discipline of chronostratigraphy , which attempts to derive absolute age dates for all fossil assemblages and determine the geologic history of the Earth and extraterrestrial bodies. Dating methods Geology to Paleobiology Radiometric dating main Radiometric dating By measuring the amount of radioactive decay of a radioactive isotop ... more details
File Seerani amman.jpg thumb right 200px Cobra symbolism in a Sri Lankan Hindu statue of Nainativu Nagapooshani Ambigai. File Dambulla 06.jpg right 200px thumb Cobra symbolism in a Sri Lankan Buddhist statue. According to Buddhist scripture the Naga king Muchalinda shielded the Buddha from getting wet in the rain by coiling round him and holding his large hood above the Buddha s head. ref name sunob The Naga people were the aboriginal peoples aboriginal people inhabitants of Sri Lanka who ruled Nagadeepa or Naga Nadu the coastal districts of mostly Western and Northern Ceylon, particularly the Jaffna peninsula from the 6th century BCE to 3rd century Common Era CE and other parts modern Sri Lanka including Anuradhapura Kingdom , Kelaniya Kalyani and ancient Ruhuna . They also inhabited the coasts of the Early Cholas early Chola and Early Pandyan Kingdom early Pandyan kingdoms of Tamilakam. Naga people were snake worshippers, a custom found in many tropical climes including the Amazon. ref E. O. Wilson, Consilience, . Little, Brown, New York 1998 ref Those in the Indian subcontinent spoke a Prakrit language which was Mauryan if they were in the North, and closer to Tamil or Simhala prakrit if they were in the south. ref Iruvatham Mahadevan, Early Tamil Epigraphy From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. Harvard Oriental Series 62 2003 ref Page number date April 2012 Clarify Clarification needed as to what is meant by North and South date April 2012 The interchangeable names Naga, N ya and or N ka, meaning Cobra or Serpent were applied to and self described by these snake worshiping people from classical antiquity. ref name lklib The word Naga was sometimes written in early inscriptions as N ya, as in N ganika this occurs in the Nanaghat inscription of 150 BCE. Excavation archaeology Archaeological excavations and studies provide evidence of palaeolithic inhabitation in the Jaffna and Kerala region. The findings include Naga idols and suggest that Snake worship ... more details
a consilience of modern disciplines and acceptance of social diversity. The ancient wisdoms of the world ... way. ref http www.thegreatstory.org ClassicQuotes.pdf Edward O. Wilson, Consilience 1998 ref ... many otherwise disparate areas of study into one coherent Epic of Evolution tale a consilience . ref ... more details
Wilson first1 E. O. title Consilience The Unity of Knowledge pages 384 year 1999 publisher Vintage isbn 067976867X url http books.google.com ?id YsWNfTXU7oC&printsec frontcover&dq consilience v onepage&q ... on inferential sets of logic consilience of induction s, abduction s, and deduction s , Scientific ... more details
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