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RIP EO Wilson - Human nature is such that we will probably know for sure very soon. That prospect is what makes future scholarship that connects the great branches of learning -- NSH--so very exciting and worthwhile.

Consilience Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard, presents the annual John M. Prather Lecture in Biolog...

New ideas are struggling to emerge from the sea of science

New ideas are struggling to emerge from the sea of science A flood of scientific papers may be paradoxically preventing new ideas from advancing.

I’m talking about science as part of a much grander and older sort of questioning about who we are in the big picture of the universe.
The Island of Knowledge. Knowledge advances, yes? But it’s surrounded by this ocean of the unknown. The paradox of knowledge is that as it expands and the boundary between the known and the unknown changes, you inevitably start to ask questions that you couldn’t even ask before.

Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief

Antonio Damasio - Feeling and Consciousness
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/books/i-feel-therefore-i-am.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrelFkDYls

I Feel, Therefore I Am (Published 2003) Dr Antonio Damasio book Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain defends Dutch philospher Spinoza's early theories on links between brain, reasoning and human emotion; photos (M)