April is National Poetry Month so Knopf Publishers sends out a poem a day. Here's today's tender offering: On February 12th, the 200th anniversary of Charles...
An interesting discussion of the sixth sense and physics _http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2009/03/killing-me- softly-part-one.html_ ...
Either everything has a cause, or boundary conditions exist that don`t have causes. I guess it is possible for something to be both caused and uncaused, but...
Hello everyone, This is part 1 of 3. Still within Section 2 of Chapter II of Part III of 'The Human Phenomenon', Teilhard continues his discussion of the ...
In a message dated 4/6/2009 9:54:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hucklebird@... writes: I might disagree with Kurweil, because I don`t believe the true ...
This is part 2 of 3. In Teilhard's estimation, included in the juvenile category are such Neanderthal assemblages as those whose remains are found: - at...
This is part 3 of 3. Readers of the 1955 Seuil edition of 'Le phénomène humain' and of Bernard Wall's 1959 translation of the Seuil edition entitled 'The...
Stephen, perhaps I misinterpret your thoughts here. I don't see "egocentric motives alone" from Ray Kurzweil. My reading, and some words of others who...
Hello everyone, Below is a link to an article, by Douglas Todd, a columnist at the Vancouver Sun. The article, in part, attempts to disclose the limitations of...
Hello Brian, Congratulations for being informative and explicit. So many people (I'm not referring to this list but I could be) cut and paste articles (their...
Hello Raymond, Thanks for your message of April 9th. I suspect that not a few of us have, on occasion, engaged in scientism to some degree. Scientism, of...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 11:13:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, briancowan@... writes: Hello everyone, Below is a link to an article, by Douglas Todd,...
Hello Judy (and all) Thanks very much for your comments. I do see merit in your notion of creating purpose and meaning in terms of the way we interrelate with...
Hello Brian and Judy Yes, that's the very point I was making. My question of definition of consciousness was rhetorical. It was meant to illustrate that...
Raymond, so sorry about the length of that URL. I dragged it into my message and it looked like a simple link, but then the message appeared in the yahoo list...
Hello everyone, This is part 1 of 3. In this submission I begin to consider Section 3 of Chapter II of Part III of 'The Human Phenomenon'. The section is...
This is part 2 of 3. THE AURIGNACIAN HUMAN TYPE As I understand it, the Aurignacian designation is more a cultural one than a morphological one. What this...
This is part 3 of 3. The Jesuit scientist reminds us that the embryogenesis of Homo sapiens, like the start-up of the mammals, the trituberculates [16], and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNyAX01ye3Q&feature=related ... Van: teilhard@yahoogroups.com [mailto:teilhard@yahoogroups.com]Namens Brian Cowan Verzonden:...
Hello everyone, I continue with my review of Section 3 of Chapter II of Part III of 'The Human Phenomenon'. It is important, of course, to bear in mind that,...
This is part 2 of 2. As we gaze back upon the biological past we are, Teilhard tells us, used to seeing pretty well everywhere we look, a kind of fanning out...
...i have not visited here for years...but live and learn...CD and i share the same birthday...the same b-day as Abe Lincoln...although this is not directly...
Dear All&One, Dear Noospherians, I'm happy to notify you of the event and to participate it in some way with you. ... In the section "ARTicles" you'll find a...
Hello everyone, This is part 1 of 3. I continue my review of Section 3 of Chapter II of Part II of 'The Human Phenomenon'. In much of what remains of this...
This is part 2 of 3. The Trois Frères (Three Brothers) cave is named after its three discoverers, the three sons of the the French count, Napoléon Bégouen....
This is part 3 of 3. The adherents of the John Frum cargo cult, on the island of Tanna, honour their god in a variety of ways so as to remain in his good...
_http://darwiniana.com/2009/06/08/more-on-sociobiological-idiocy/_ (http://darwiniana.com/2009/06/08/more-on-sociobiological-idiocy/) _War, what is it good...
____________________________________ A Tribute to Thomas Berry (From Enlightenment magazine) The renowned eco-theologian Thomas Berry died in the early...
Hello everyone, This is part 1 of 3. This submission will conclude my review of Section 3 of Chapter II of Part III of 'The Human Phenomenon'. Teilhard readily...