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Thus he rails in speeches against the menace of a "sixth extinction," one unlike the prior five extinction spasms, the last of which came 66 million years ago. Those were brought about by natural phenomena. When it occurs, the sixth mass extinction of living organisms will be brought about by people, by a mushrooming population that has doubled in 40 years, to 6 billion, and by human carelessness and commerce. In the 21st century, which Raven would like to see called "the age of biology," he says we must learn to "master the diversity of living organisms...
Peed said that phenomena such as free will and the origins of laws could not be traced to a scientific origin...
Peed said that phenomena such as free will and the origins of laws could not be traced to a scientific orgin...
...expert in astronomical phenomena. I'm a history concentrator. So I tend to look at the Harvard experience from a historical perspective. While I was here, I made the closest friends I will likely ever heave. Generations of Harvard students have graduated with similarly close friendships, and it's not an accident...
...were criticized for being "dirty," i.e., messy. Turing recognized his homosexuality while at Sherbourne and fell in love, albeit undeclared, with another boy at the school, who suddenly died of bovine tuberculosis. This loss shattered Turing's religious faith and led him into atheism and the conviction that all phenomena must have materialistic explanations. There was no soul in the machine nor any mind behind a brain. But how, then, did thought and consciousness arise...