Collective Action. Authors. Link Collections. Center for Study of Public Choice. Are We Rational Animals? Aristotle held the belief that man is a rational animal. A growing body of research suggests otherwise. Rational: of or based on reasoning (from Webster’s New World Dictionary). This ambiguous definition is similar to what is given by many people when asked to define rational. This type of definition is virtually worthless as it becomes open to a plethora of interpretations.
In order to teach and express the importance of rational thinking it is imperative to precisely define the concept. What is rationality? Rationality is concerned with two key things: what is true and what to do (Manktelow, 2004). Cognitive scientists generally identify two types of rationality: instrumental and epistemic (Stanovich, 2009). Characteristics of rational thought Adaptive behavioral actsJudicious decision-makingEfficient behavioral regulationRealistic goal prioritizationProper belief formationReflectivity (Characteristics taken from Stanovich, 2009, p.15) Irrationality and intelligence References Manktelow, K.
Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia. El Tribunal de las Aguas de la Vega de Valencia, conocido también como Tribunal de las Aguas es una institución de Justicia encargada de dirimir los conflictos derivados del uso y aprovechamiento del agua de riego entre los agricultores de las Comunidades de Regantes de las acequias que forman parte de él (Quart, Benàger i Faitanar, Tormos, Mislata, Mestalla, Favara, Rascanya , Rovella y Chirivella). En septiembre de 2009 es designado Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad.[1] ...testimonio único de una tradición cultural viva: la de la justicia y el gobierno democrático y autogestionario de las aguas por parte de los campesinos andalusíes en el ámbito de las huertas que rodeaban las grandes ciudades de la fachada mediterránea de la Península Ibérica...
Funcionamiento[editar] El Tribunal es un tribunal consuetudinario. Las caracteristicas del Tribunal se pueden definir segun el Profesor V.Fairen en : oralidad, concentración, rapidez y economia. Historia[editar] Véase también[editar] The Web is (not) dead…if you believe Scientific American , not Wired. Too often, we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. That could happen with the World Wide Web—unless we protect the basic principles on which the Web is built. Protecting principles is also the key to the Web’s future growth, an argument laid out in "Long Live the Web," written as an exclusive for Scientific American by the man who invented the biggest killer app of all time, Tim Berners-Lee . Twenty years ago this month, the Web went live inside a single computer on Berners-Lee’s desk at CERN, the high-energy physics lab in Geneva.
People like to reflect on anniversaries , but Berners-Lee—who rarely writes for anyone or agrees to be interviewed—had a stronger motivation: to wake us up. Some Internet carriers, and some big Web sites, are also bent on fragmenting the Web , so that when you search for something you won’t find all the possible answers, and when you publish something it won’t be seen by everyone who might be interested. Needless to say, Berners-Lee was not amused. Lansing, J.S.: Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali. Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems.
They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone. Did someone have to design Bali's water temple networks, or could they have emerged from a self-organizing process? Perfect Order--a groundbreaking work at the nexus of conservation, complexity theory, and anthropology--describes a series of fieldwork projects triggered by this question, ranging from the archaeology of the water temples to their ecological functions and their place in Balinese cosmology. J. Review: "[A] winning combination of hard science and interpretative ethnography. " Endorsement: More Endorsements Table of Contents: Series: Princeton Studies in ComplexitySimon A.
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine. Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures. Who’s to Blame: Us As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work. by Chris Anderson You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. You’ve spent the day on the Internet — but not on the Web. This is not a trivial distinction. A decade ago, the ascent of the Web browser as the center of the computing world appeared inevitable. But there has always been an alternative path, one that saw the Web as a worthy tool but not the whole toolkit.
“Sure, we’ll always have Web pages. Who’s to Blame: Them Chaos isn’t a business model. Maine towns grapple with water-rights issues. Some embrace, oppose Poland Spring By Steve Bodnar sbodnar@seacoastonline.com August 13, 2009 2:00 AM When Poland Spring's interest in taking water from the Branch Brook Aquifer for bottling purposes became public last year, a local clash over water rights was born. The situation has left residents and town officials with a dilemma: what can be done locally to protect the best interest of the community?
While towns like Wells and Kennebunk are still struggling to find ways to deal with the water debate, other Maine communities where Poland Spring has ties have faced similar issues. In Kingfield, a Franklin County town with just more than 1,000 residents, some residents have had concerns about Poland Spring and its bottling plant that opened there in 2008. The main issue there, as it has been in Wells, is about water extraction, opponents of the plant have said. "No one can really own the water," said Jonathan Carter, a former Green Party candidate for governor familiar with Kingfield. Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance. A Rare Glimpse of William Burroughs’ Belongings, proclaimed a recent Fast Company headline. But what does “rare” really mean these days? A photograph indexed by Google is hardly “rare,” what with being instantly accessible to a few billion people.
The real question, then, becomes how many will actually access what’s accessible and how this changes the rhetoric of rarity. Over the past few years, the fledgling field of the digital humanities has made significant strides with a number of ambitious digitization projects bringing online rare cultural artifacts — manuscripts, canvases, celluloid, marginalia — that used to rot away in institutional archives. We’re in the habit of associating value with scarcity, but the digital world unlinks them. Great editors are like great matchmakers: they introduce people to whole new ways of thinking, and they fall in love.
In a lot of ways, we do that with information. Image by Lawrence OP used under a Creative Commons license.