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Monadology and Sociology
Gabriel Tarde’s Monadology and Sociology , originally published in 1893, is a remarkable and unclassifiable book. It sets out a theory of 'universal sociology', which aims to explicate the essentially social nature of all phenomena, including the behaviour of atoms, stars, chemical substances and living beings.meaningfulness
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This book, already 40 years old, is itself a collection of (lightly edited) papers and presentations from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. So my review is necessarily part historical. However, my main interest is in the science.
Entropy
(This piece is new and still embryonic; it is likely to change constantly over the next few months.The theory of dissipative structure upon which the current discussion is based can be treated as the open systems model extended with a capability to continuously impose a revolutionary change or transformation. The theory of dissipative structure Pioneered by the Brussels school of thought in the 1970s (Prigogine, 1976; Nicolis and Prigogine, 1977, 1989; Prigogine and Stengers, 1984), this theory is firmly rooted in physics and chemistry.
The dissipative systems model
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6.0 - A Definition of Life
Robert A. Freitas Jr., Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization, First Edition, Xenology Research Institute, Sacramento, CA, 1979; http://www.xenology.info/Xeno.htm In earlier chapters we considered the astronomical environment which extraterrestrial lifeforms must cope with.
For being In-Time and In-Tune to be in Harmony with Mother Earth and Nature all musicians really do, especially string players, is to ‘count’ so as to be ‘in-tune’ and ‘in-time’.
Contraction and Convergence and Music
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Before we can address the issue of what antimatter is, we should ask ourselves what matter is.
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GENEVA, Switzerland — In the antimatter department at CERN, the world’s biggest science facility, a picture hangs on the wall showing the filmmaker Ron Howard surrounded by beaming scientists.aesthetics & information
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General Aesthetics: The Fine Arts
Art and Aesthetics (Severyn T. Bruyn)
A dielectric is an electrical insulator that can be polarized by an applied electric field . When a dielectric is placed in an electric field, electric charges do not flow through the material as they do in a conductor , but only slightly shift from their average equilibrium positions causing dielectric polarization . Because of dielectric polarization, positive charges are displaced toward the field and negative charges shift in the opposite direction.