In an unpublished study of the degree subjects undertaken by university students who then went on to be admitted to the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital in London during a psychotic episode, I found that a subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia was most strongly associated with having chosen to study engineering, followed closely by philosophy (p > 0.001). The abstract, impersonal, sequentialist approach of philosophy distinguishes it from all other humanities subjects (e.g. literature, history), which were the commonest choices amongst those who were subsequently diagnosed with an affective psychosis.
Emphasis on the left-side, where language and abstractions dominate, can lead to mind/body dissonance, which is what Schizophrenia is.
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I once saw some elegantly moving metal contraptions with big hoops and moving levers. One could think that they were perpetuum mobile machines but they did stop eventually though it took them quite some time. Very little friction and enough mass slowly moving around.
In the first machine it takes quite some time for the water to run down that tube, at first it runs down to the spot where the tube is held by the wooden fixture, then it takes quite some time to show up in the rest of the tube as if it is taking a detour through some more hidden tubing.
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An artificial “minimal cell” that has had all but the most essential genes stripped out can evolve and adapt to its surroundings just as fast as a normal cell [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
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evolution is life adapting to environment. Patterns interacting - repelling attracting - and being affected by the interaction. Friction produces attrition.
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Yes, science is dying. It has been dying for a long time meanwhile. It reached its peak in the 19th century, and its application - the technology/technique/engineering - reached its peak in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. It is a typically occidental phenomenon, and therefore it is no wonder that it is declining together with occidental culture, albeit with a time lag and due to the fact that it was passed on from occidental culture to non-occidental cultures, which then imitated it. Occidental science has helped occidental technology to develop so rapidly, from which all people benefit. Without occidental technology, more than 90% of the non-occidental population would not even exist and the remaining 10% would still be living in miserable conditions.
After Wernher von Braun’s rockets (1930s) had laid the foundation for the conquest of space, after Otto Hahn had split atomic nuclei for the first time (1938), thus had laid the foundation for the use of nuclear energy, after Konrad Zuse had built the first computer (1941), thus had laid the foundation for the internet and artificial intelligence, and after Werner Heisenberg and Karl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker had built and tested the first atomic bomb for the first time (1944), there was actually nothing fundamentally new to create. All the used technology after that is only a consequence, no longer an achievement, no longer an invention, but only another use, the economic exploitation and the shifts of property relations in favor of those who have the most money, the greatest power (in other words: the beginning of the supremacy of Americanism, the fulfillment of the alleged "American dream" by the theft of German patents, Robbery and extortion of German scientists and German technicians).
And since digital technology has reached the point where almost everything can be left to machines and AI, most humans are no longer needed, and that has consequences.
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