Post by skyship on Oct 9, 2009 14:20:39 GMT -5
This begins the process, first reductionism had to happen, then
constructionism.
Evolutionary Devolutionists had to reduct the human back
to the beginning. In other words, find the root of the human
tree of life, or matter itself.
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From reductionist to constructionist, but only if we integrate
The full value of sequence databases will only be evident when they are fully integrated with data from biochemical and physiological experiments, and even from human genetic studies. This integration must be made in a way that will allow simulations of outcomes to be made when individual components of the system are modified.
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In more ways than one. Integrate all the sciences, the big
bang of evolution by degrading to the root, and begin again.
This time modifying all along the way.
First with biotechnology, using organic to achieve universial
genes, from plants, animals protozoans, fungi, lichen, cyanobacteria.
A contrived evolution.
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"Reductionism
Descartes held that non-human animals could be reductively explained as automata — De homines 1662.
Reductionism can either mean (a) an approach to understand the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or (b) a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents.[1] This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings. Reductionism is strongly related to a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of other, more fundamental phenomena, are called epiphenomena. Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it.
Reductionism does not preclude emergent phenomena but it does imply the ability to understand the emergent in terms of the phenomena from and process(es) by which it emerges.
History
Reductionism dates back to ancient Greek philosophy in which some philosophers, notably Democritus, viewed the world as a mechanistic, material machine.[2] Democritus was famous for his theory of atomism.
It was introduced later by Descartes in Part V of his Discourses (1637). Descartes argued the world was like a machine, its pieces like clockwork mechanisms, and that the machine could be understood by taking its pieces apart, studying them, and then putting them back together to see the larger picture."........
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism
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www.reductionism.com/
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Have we come to this?
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"Historical Background: Philosophical and Scientific
And what, asks Ailsa at random, as she flicks through the pages of Darwin, is morphology? Morphology is dead rabbits in formalin, says Humphrey. (M. Drabble, The Sea Lady, 225)
Undoubtedly, the growth and development of molecular biology over the past half century has made reductionism in biology a central issue (and DNA a household word). But it would be wrong to assume that the different aspects of reductionism only gain traction in the wake of the molecularization of biology juxtaposed with the discussion of reduction from a logical empiricist perspective (see Section 3.1). Besides a perennial concern with what makes life distinctive, we can distinguish at least two reductionist themes throughout history relevant to the life sciences and its philosophy: (1) the relation among different branches or domains of knowledge and (2) the relation between parts and wholes (Grene and Depew 2004, Magner 1994). These two themes link up in a complex fashion with both epistemic and ontological aspects of reduction. (Questions about methodological reduction tend to coalesce around new technologies that open up the possibility of pursuing reductionist research methods, such as making observations at a lower level with microscopy.) Additionally, these aspects of reductionism arise in the context of specific, enduring biological topics: the complex relations among different animals and plants in natural environments (“ecology”), the integrated relations among the parts and whole of an organism (“functional anatomy/physiology”), and the dynamic relations among the homogeneous components in the early stages of an embryo that eventually beget a unified whole organism containing heterogeneous parts in appropriate arrangement and connection (“development/reproduction”).".........
plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology/
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Skyship
constructionism.
Evolutionary Devolutionists had to reduct the human back
to the beginning. In other words, find the root of the human
tree of life, or matter itself.
===============================
From reductionist to constructionist, but only if we integrate
The full value of sequence databases will only be evident when they are fully integrated with data from biochemical and physiological experiments, and even from human genetic studies. This integration must be made in a way that will allow simulations of outcomes to be made when individual components of the system are modified.
Sponsored Links
Biotechnology Management
Study from anywhere in the world.
Flexible Online Programs at IE
www.IE.edu/business
Human Genome
"Discovering Ardi" Is An Exclusive
Discovery Special Oct. 11 at 9e/p
discovery.com/ardi
Biotechnology Products
Applied Biosystems Is The Global
Leader In Biotech. Learn More Today
www.AppliedBiosystems.com
tinyurl.com/ylfjstv
==================================
In more ways than one. Integrate all the sciences, the big
bang of evolution by degrading to the root, and begin again.
This time modifying all along the way.
First with biotechnology, using organic to achieve universial
genes, from plants, animals protozoans, fungi, lichen, cyanobacteria.
A contrived evolution.
==================================
"Reductionism
Descartes held that non-human animals could be reductively explained as automata — De homines 1662.
Reductionism can either mean (a) an approach to understand the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or (b) a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents.[1] This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings. Reductionism is strongly related to a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of other, more fundamental phenomena, are called epiphenomena. Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it.
Reductionism does not preclude emergent phenomena but it does imply the ability to understand the emergent in terms of the phenomena from and process(es) by which it emerges.
History
Reductionism dates back to ancient Greek philosophy in which some philosophers, notably Democritus, viewed the world as a mechanistic, material machine.[2] Democritus was famous for his theory of atomism.
It was introduced later by Descartes in Part V of his Discourses (1637). Descartes argued the world was like a machine, its pieces like clockwork mechanisms, and that the machine could be understood by taking its pieces apart, studying them, and then putting them back together to see the larger picture."........
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism
======================================
www.reductionism.com/
====================================
Have we come to this?
www.macraesbluebook.com/search/company.cfm?company=325240
==================================
"Historical Background: Philosophical and Scientific
And what, asks Ailsa at random, as she flicks through the pages of Darwin, is morphology? Morphology is dead rabbits in formalin, says Humphrey. (M. Drabble, The Sea Lady, 225)
Undoubtedly, the growth and development of molecular biology over the past half century has made reductionism in biology a central issue (and DNA a household word). But it would be wrong to assume that the different aspects of reductionism only gain traction in the wake of the molecularization of biology juxtaposed with the discussion of reduction from a logical empiricist perspective (see Section 3.1). Besides a perennial concern with what makes life distinctive, we can distinguish at least two reductionist themes throughout history relevant to the life sciences and its philosophy: (1) the relation among different branches or domains of knowledge and (2) the relation between parts and wholes (Grene and Depew 2004, Magner 1994). These two themes link up in a complex fashion with both epistemic and ontological aspects of reduction. (Questions about methodological reduction tend to coalesce around new technologies that open up the possibility of pursuing reductionist research methods, such as making observations at a lower level with microscopy.) Additionally, these aspects of reductionism arise in the context of specific, enduring biological topics: the complex relations among different animals and plants in natural environments (“ecology”), the integrated relations among the parts and whole of an organism (“functional anatomy/physiology”), and the dynamic relations among the homogeneous components in the early stages of an embryo that eventually beget a unified whole organism containing heterogeneous parts in appropriate arrangement and connection (“development/reproduction”).".........
plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology/
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Skyship