vernadsky.ru Address speech by Vernadsky Foundation President Kirill Stepanov on Vladimir Vernadsky anniversary. Vernadsky Foundation Sustainable Development through Partnership The name of the Academician Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky has been always deeply honored in Russia and Ukraine, and recently has become widely known, especially in connection with topicality of his doctrine of the Earth's biosphere and its inevitable evolutionary transformation into the sphere of the human reason (the noosphere). >> V. On 13-16 April, 2010, the 17th All-Russian Vernadsky Youth Readings took place in Moscow. Vernadsky Foundation celebrates its 15th Founding Anniversary in the year 2010. «NGV Market in Russia.Today and Tomorrow» for the EBC Ecology and Healthcare Working Committee Meeting, September 30, 2009 Presentation " NGV Russia.Vernadsky Foundation.ANGVA 2009" RUSSIA National Ecological Award 2008-Russian Federation Speech by Mr. The rest of numbers of the journal (russian version)
Cyberspace and Philosophy The mind-body problem has been called the greatest question in the history of human thought. It can be phrased as, "How does the physical brain give rise to the psychological mind?" This question was first widely investigated by Descartes, who intending to extend mathematical methods to all areas of human knowledge, discarded the authoritarian systems of the scholastic philosophers and began with universal doubt. Only one thing cannot be doubted: doubt itself. Therefore, the doubter must exist. Dualism was contested by Descartes's contemporary Thomas Hobbes. These two traditional theories, dualism and materialism, still dominate discussion of the mind-body problem. The connection between the mind-body problem and the future of Neuromancer may not be obvious. Cyberspace and Neuroscience.
Anaxagoras Anaxagoras (/ˌænækˈsæɡərəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagoras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 510 – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese. According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch, he fled to Lampsacus due to a backlash against his pupil Pericles. Anaxagoras is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), as an ordering force. Biography[edit] Anaxagoras appears to have had some amount of property and prospects of political influence in his native town of Clazomenae in Asia Minor. In early manhood (c. 464–461 BC) he went to Athens, which was rapidly becoming the centre of Greek culture. Anaxagoras brought philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from Ionia to Athens. Cosmological theory[edit]
Panchatantra Ancient Sanskrit text of animal fables from India The first page of oldest surviving Panchatantra text in Sanskrit[1] An 18th-century Pancatantra manuscript page in Braj dialect of Hindi (The Talkative Turtle) The Panchatantra (IAST: Pañcatantra, Sanskrit: पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story.[2] The surviving work is dated to roughly 200 BCE, based on older oral tradition.[3][4] The text's author is unknown, but has been attributed to Vishnu Sharma in some recensions and Vasubhaga in others, both of which may be pen names.[3] It is classical literature in a Hindu text,[3][5] and based on older oral traditions with "animal fables that are as old as we are able to imagine".[6] It is "certainly the most frequently translated literary product of India",[7] and these stories are among the most widely known in the world.[8] It goes by many names in many cultures. Content[edit] Others
Vladimir Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский; Ukrainian: Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1863 – 6 January 1945) was a Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology.[1] His ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism. He also worked in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, where he founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). He is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess’ 1885 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. Biography[edit] Vladimir Vernadsky, gymnasium student 1st Classical Gymnasium of St. Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1863. Selected works[edit]
Why Atheists Don't Really Exist Confirmation bias is the tendency to ascribe greater significance to information which supports our pre-existing theories and lesser significance to information which contradicts those theories. We often do this subconsciously. For example you get a new car, and suddenly you notice that type of car on the road with a much greater frequency than you had noticed before. But though confirmation bias generally refers to the inclusion or exclusion of data, there are other ways we can shoehorn the obvious to make it fit within our world view. Last month in The Atlantic, Matthew Hutson wrote a fascinating article titled: “The Science of Superstition: No One Is Immune to Magical Thinking.” Actually as an article it’s really not that fascinating, but as an illustration of the mental contortions one must make to defend atheism, it is Olympic. Skeptics call this patternicity, or projecting pattern where there is none. Fr. When C.S.
Omega Point The Omega Point is the purported maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which some theorize the universe is evolving. The term was coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955). According to Teilhard the universe is constantly evolving towards higher levels of material complexity and consciousness, a hypothesis that Teilhard called the Law of Complexity/Consciousness. Teilhard argued that the Omega Point resembles the Christian Logos, namely Christ, who draws all things into himself, who in the words of the Nicene Creed, is "God from God", "Light from Light", "True God from true God," and "through him all things were made." The idea is developed in later writings, such as those of John Godolphin Bennett (1965), John David Garcia (1971), Paolo Soleri (1981), Frank Tipler (1994), and Ray Kurzweil, as well as in science fiction literature. Five attributes[edit] Related concepts[edit] Bennett and the Hyparchic Future[edit] Tipler[edit] See also[edit]
Emergence If we were pressed to give a definition of emergence, we could say that a property is emergent if it is a novel property of a system or an entity that arises when that system or entity has reached a certain level of complexity and that, even though it exists only insofar as the system or entity exists, it is distinct from the properties of the parts of the system from which it emerges. However, as will become apparent, things are not so simple because “emergence” is a term used in different ways both in science and in philosophy, and how it is to be defined is a substantive question in itself. The term “emergence” comes from the Latin verb emergo which means to arise, to rise up, to come up or to come forth. The term was coined by G. Effects are resultant if they can be calculated by the mere addition or subtraction of causes operating together, as with the weight of an object, when one can calculate its weight merely by adding the weights of the parts that make it up. Table of Contents