Open for discussion: Graham Hancock, Rupert Sheldrake, TEDxWhitechapel UPDATE: Please see our new blog post Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake, a fresh take, which replaces the x-ed out text below. To discuss the talks, view them here: The debate about Rupert Sheldrake’s talkThe debate about Graham Hancock’s talk After due diligence, including a survey of published scientific research and recommendations from our Science Board and our community, we have decided that Graham Hancock’s and Rupert Sheldrake’s talks from TEDxWhitechapel should be removed from distribution on the TEDx YouTube channel. We’re not censoring the talks. All talks on the TEDxTalks channel represent the opinion of the speaker, not of TED or TEDx, but we feel a responsibility not to provide a platform for talks which appear to have crossed the line into pseudoscience. UPDATE: Please find Rupert Sheldrake’s response below the video window. According to our science board, Rupert Sheldrake bases his argument on several major factual errors, which undermine the arguments of talk.
Rupert Sheldrake - Richard Dawkins comes to call "¿ASÍ QUE QUIERES SER ESCRITOR?" de Charles Bukowski The Hedonistic Imperative: Table Of Contents ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION 0.1 The Naturalisation of Heaven 0.2 Saving Vehicles With Bad Drivers 0.3 Humans Are Not Rats 0.4 Life In Dopaminergic Overdrive HOW?1.0 Sabotage At The Mill 1.1 The Biological Program 1.2 Pumping Up The Volume 1.3 The Civilising Neurotransmitter 1.4 The Cardinal Importance Of Delayed Gratification 1.5 The Molecular Genetics Of Paradise 1.6 The Re-encephalisation Of Emotion 1.7 How Could Anything Be So Good? 1.8 All We Need Is Love? 1.9 The Taste Of Depravity 1.10 On The Misguided Romanticisation Of Feline Psychopaths 1.11 The Last Twisted Molecule On Earth? 1.12 The Persistence Of Hard-Core Porn 1.13 The Growing Pleasures Of Homunculi 1.14 Post-Perceptual Consciousness? WHY? WHEN?
Rupert Sheldrake Alfred Rupert Sheldrake is an English author,[3] public speaker,[4] and researcher in the field of parapsychology,[5] known for his "morphic resonance" concept.[6] He worked as a biochemist and cell biologist at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1973[3] and as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics until 1978.[7] Sheldrake's morphic resonance posits that "memory is inherent in nature"[3][8] and that "natural systems, such as termite colonies, or pigeons, or orchid plants, or insulin molecules, inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind".[8] Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for "telepathy-type interconnections between organisms".[9] His advocacy of the idea encompasses paranormal subjects such as precognition, telepathy and the psychic staring effect[10][11] as well as unconventional explanations of standard subjects in biology such as development, inheritance, and memory.[12] Background
El Auténtico Valor de las Cosas (El Origen del Mal) Mission Statement of BLTC Research Epigenetics and Soviet Biology One of the biggest controversies in twentieth-century biology was about the inheritance of acquired characteristics, the ability of animals and plants to inherit adaptations acquired by their ancestors. For example, if a dog was terrified of butchers because he had been mistreated by one, his offspring would tend to inherit his fear. Charles Darwin wrote a letter to Nature describing just such a case. The opposing view, promoted by the science of genetics, asserted that organisms could not inherit features their ancestors had acquired; they only passed on genes that they themselves had inherited. In Darwin's day, most people assumed that acquired characteristics could indeed be inherited. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck took this for granted in his theory of evolution published more than 50 years before Darwin's, and the inheritance of acquired characters is often referred to as "Lamarckian inheritance." Lamarck emphasized the role of behaviour in evolution.
Spectacles of shadow: Fellows Friday with Christine Marie Imagine 20-foot-tall shadows — animated by live performers — that pop out right next to you. TED Fellow Christine Marie creates an immersive, experimental theater of shadows that layers textured, colored light into wordless storytelling. But while her productions involve 3D stereoscopic effects and feel amazingly cinematic, it’s all done without the aid of computers or projectors. As her most recent production, 4 TRAINS/Signaling Arcana, opens this weekend at Z-Space in San Francisco, California, the TED Blog reached out to Marie to talk about how she’s reinvented old stereoscopic technology and merged it with her knowledge of filmmaking and traditional Indonesian puppetry to create something utterly unique. Describe how your shadow theatre productions work. This will be my fourth original production where I take multiple large screens and create a concave, visually immersive experience for the audience. The storytelling is like that as well. How do you generate 3D shadows? Awesome!
Evolutionary Holacracy : Expérience Intermarché et « Holacratie évolutive » Une Nouvelle Année, Une Nouvelle façon de penser. Et si nous commencions l’année 2013 par un grand OUI? C’est une nouvelle année qui commence, un nouveau cycle. Si nous mettons en avant cette très célèbre citation d’Albert Einstein sur notre site, « les problèmes auxquels nous sommes confrontés ne peuvent être résolu au niveau et avec la façon de penser qui les a engendrés » c’est avant partout parce qu’elle est porteuse d’un sens profond de notre relation à la vie. Pour chacun d’entre nous cela veut dire se poser la question du sens de notre existence et comme un fractal, cela se répercute à chaque niveau de notre existence. La vie est-elle quelque chose de positif? Et si nous faisions de cette nouvelle année l’occasion du retour de l’optimisne? Quand nous nous posons le plus honnêtement possible, en toute transparence avec nous-même, la question de notre relation à la vie, nous pouvons savoir qu’elle est elle et si nous la vivons véritablement de manière positive. Tout est possible.
Sheldrake-Shermer, God and Science, Opening Statements Through the months of May, June, and July of 2015, TheBestSchools.org is hosting an intensive Dialogue on the Nature of Science between Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. During the third month, July, the focus will be on God and science. Dr. Dr. For details about this dialogue, along with a complete guide to other portions of it, click here. To give our readers context for this dialogue, Drs. Sheldrake Opening Statement Dear Michael, I believe in God, and I am a church-going Christian, an Anglican (Episcopalian in the United States). Nevertheless, we probably agree about many things. For those who believe in God, the intelligibility of nature and the ability of human minds to understand some aspects of the natural world make sense because they have a common source, namely God. If these laws are explained in terms of yet more fundamental laws, as in M-theory, or superstring theory, then where do those ultimate laws come from? A third area in which we agree is evolution. Rupert 1. Michael