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Join the SMN group on LinkedIn

Posted by Keith MacDonald on 10 June 2010 | 0 Comments

Tags: LinkedIn

Dear fellow members

To help use the internet to spread the SMN, and foster more communication between members (and potential members), I hope you will join the new Scientific and Medical Network group on LinkedIn.

You can find the group by going to http://www.linkedin.com/

Then enter "Scientific and Medical Network" - with the quote marks - in the Group search box

All the best

Keith MacDonald

SMN member since 1995

 

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Breaking the Galilean spell

Posted by Shajan Mathew on 5 June 2010 | 1 Comments

I am reading ‘Reinventing the Sacred’ by Stuart Kauffman. Prof Kauffman writes about 'breaking the Galilean spell' - a radical break from reductionism. Everything that happens in nature cannot be described by natural laws. For example, no natural law could explain the evolution of biosphere. Natural laws are not violated, but science alone cannot predict the outcome of evolutionary processes. A second explanatory principle is essential to make sense of evolution. This is the Creativity inherent in nature. Kauffman goes onto explain how this natural Creativity could be viewed as God sans the historical baggage.

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A Space Odyssey of the Mind

Posted by Oliver Robinson on 1 June 2010 | 0 Comments

Tags: space simulation

On the BBC website today there is a story about a 520 day experiment, starting this week, that will mimick a journey to Mars.

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