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Consilience and unity in ocular anterior segment research [PDF]
International Journal of OphthalmologyIn his beautiful book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, the eminent biologist Edward O Wilson, advocates the need for integration and reconciliation across the sciences.
Houmam Araj
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Consilience in the Peripheral Sensory Adaptation Response
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Measurements of the peripheral sensory adaptation response were compared to a simple mathematical relationship involving the spontaneous, peak, and steady-state activities.
Willy Wong
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Consilience in Causation: Causal Emergence Is Found Across Measures of Causation [PDF]
EntropyCausation is fundamentally important to science, and yet our understanding of causation is spread out across disparate fields, with different measures of causation having been proposed in philosophy, statistics, psychology, and other areas.
Renzo Comolatti, Erik Hoel
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The coming wave of confluent biosynthetic, bioinformational and bioengineering technologies [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsInformation and energy flows form the basis of all economic activity, with advanced technologies underpinning both. Profound uncertainties caused by geostrategic forces have accelerated a trillion-dollar race for technological superiority.
Isak S. Pretorius +4 more
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Proteins — a celebration of consilience [PDF]
International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2021 Proteins are the common constituents of all living cells. They are molecular machines that interact with each other as well as with other cell products and carry out a dizzying array of functions with distinction. These interactions follow from their native state structures and therefore understanding sequence-structure relationships is of fundamental
Škrbić, Tatjana +4 more
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European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2021 Two analytic examples of globally regular non-Abelian gravitating solitons in the Einstein–Yang–Mills–Higgs theory in (3 + 1)-dimensions are presented. In both cases, the space-time geometries are of the Nariai type and the Yang–Mills field is completely
Fabrizio Canfora, Seung Hun Oh
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Claude Lévi-Strauss as a humanist forerunner of cultural macroevolution studies
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Cross-cultural studies of humans using methods developed in evolutionary biology and comparative linguistics are flourishing. ‘Cultural macroevolution’ has great potential to address fundamental questions of cultural transformation and human history ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
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A CONSILIENCE OF EQUAL REGARD: STEPHEN JAY GOULD ON THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Zygon, 2021 This article offers a fresh assessment of the views of the American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on the relation of science and religion.
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Consillience – Consensus Between Sciences in the Third Millenium/21st Century
Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2016 Consilience (the term originating in inductive logic and “modernized” in the 1990s by E. O. Wilson, the creator of sociobiology) refers to the age-long dream of humanity that one day all branches of learning will see their unification – from the ...
Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska
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Jak możliwa jest adaptacyjna analiza sztuki? Niektóre problemy metodologiczne estetyki ewolucyjnej
Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2020 Evolutionary aesthetics is a young and promising discipline that still lacks a fully developed methodology, such as neuroaesthetics. The disputes over situations in which a given artistic behaviour could be considered an adaptation (or perhaps a by ...
Jerzy Luty
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