Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The view that the individual organism is the sole contender in the struggle for survival fails to explain how ants and other animals live in colonies, cooperating instead of competing among themselves.
there are no sexual practices that are responsible for transmission of STDs in the absence of the creative organism. However the risk of contracting an STD associated with any particular sexual practice increases with the number of different sexual partners.
The technique behind all these systems can be traced to MYCIN, a computer program written in the mid-1970s by a Stanford physician and computer scientist named Edward Shortliffe. Using tools developed for AI research, Shortliffe boiled down everything he knew about diagnosing infectious blood diseases and meningitis into about...
Alerted by the West German consulate, Sao Paulo Police Chief Tuma posted his men around the Bossert home in the middle-class suburb of Brooklin Novo. After three days of surveillance, the police raided the house and took in for questioning Bossert, 59, an unemployed paper-company technician, and his...
He takes on Hobbes, Hume and others for asserting that the human mind fundamentally is a sensory organ, rather than an instrument that can also intellectualize. He dismasts Darwin for categorizing man as simply an animal with higher sensory perceptions, rather than an organism that, alone among living creations, can...