Dictionary.net
lunes, 8 de junio de 2015
Dictionary.net
An interesting online dictionary, including definitions from many dictionaries, antonyms, and quotations illustrating the use of the term:
Efecto dominó
Efecto dominó
Sumado, quizá, al efecto bola de nieve y al efecto mariposa:
(Visto en el facebook de Sylvie).
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Materia Oscura Victoriana (Victorian Dark Matter)
domingo, 7 de junio de 2015
Materia Oscura Victoriana (Victorian Dark Matter)
Proponemos una lectura de los 'Primeros Principios' de Herbert Spencer como precursor relevante de las teorías cosmológicas contemporáneas. La teoría evolucionista de Spencer proporciona un modelo conceptual para la historización de la teoría del Universo que se ha vuelto especialmente relevante tras la aceptación de la teoría de la Gran Explosión como paradigma actual para la física. Los razonamientos de Spancer sobre la generación ordenada de la complejidad, sobre los procesos de equilibramiento parcial de fuerzas, y sobre la disolución, así como sus eflexiones sobre los límites inherentes a la observabilidad física en el marco de un paradigma científico, aunque hayan sido un tanto dejados de lado por la física del siglo XX, proporcionan sorprendentes analogías victorianas para algunos debates contemporáneos, y a la vez son contribuciones altamente relevantes para la construcción de un paradigma evolutivo generalizado para la cosmología, la física, y las ciencias naturales y humanas.
Materia Oscura Victoriana
English abstract:
Victorian Dark Matter
This paper proposes a reading of Herbert Spencer's 'First Principles' as a relevant precursor of contemporary cosmological theories. Spencer's evolutionary theory provides a conceptual model to historicize the theory of the Universe which becomes especially relevant after the acceptance of the Big Bang hypothesis as the current paradigm for physics. Spencer's reasoning on the ordered generation of complexity, on processes of partial equilibrium of forces, and of dissolution, as well as his reflections on the inherent limits of physical observation within a scientific paradigm, although somewhat disregarded by 20th century physics, are both uncanny Victorian analogues for some contemporary debates and highly relevant contributions to the construction of a generalized evolutionary paradigm for cosmology, physics, the natural sciences and the humanities.
Materia Oscura Victoriana
English abstract:
Victorian Dark Matter
This paper proposes a reading of Herbert Spencer's 'First Principles' as a relevant precursor of contemporary cosmological theories. Spencer's evolutionary theory provides a conceptual model to historicize the theory of the Universe which becomes especially relevant after the acceptance of the Big Bang hypothesis as the current paradigm for physics. Spencer's reasoning on the ordered generation of complexity, on processes of partial equilibrium of forces, and of dissolution, as well as his reflections on the inherent limits of physical observation within a scientific paradigm, although somewhat disregarded by 20th century physics, are both uncanny Victorian analogues for some contemporary debates and highly relevant contributions to the construction of a generalized evolutionary paradigm for cosmology, physics, the natural sciences and the humanities.
Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 5
Also to be found in the following electronic journals and repositories:
| eJournal Classifications (Date posted: May 27, 2015) |
CSN Subject Matter eJournals |
| PRN Subject Matter eJournals |
| PRN Subject Matter eJournals |
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The Handbook of Narrative Analysis
The Handbook of Narrative Analysis
Somos citados en The Handbook of Narrative Analysis (aquí en Google Books)
A Crisis at the Edge of Physics
A CRISIS AT THE EDGE OF PHYSICS—
There’s no escaping the multiverse, and there’s no escaping the universe
Part of the argument in Smolin’s physics is that the singularity at the origin of the Big Bang is a mathematical fiction. The values for the compressed space and energy should be extremely high but avoiding the mathematics of infinity. And that should allow not just one bubble universe but an evolutionary sequence of reproducing universes. Which after all does not look so different from the multiverse theory, to me at least: the Many Worlds would still be included under the meta-universe, so a multiverse is still one universe in much the way a combinatorial textual system may generate many texts but is still one text. And the evolutionary multiverse does not escape this quandary, because an evolutionary system with natural selection (between universes) needs also a population of simultaneous universes- just as living beings descend with modification from other living beings, but they exist alongside other descendants. I can’t see how evolutionary physics could sidestep the assumption of a multiverse. (Not that I like the idea of a multiverse; the old enormous universe is to my mind sufficiently mind-blowing).
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El momento fílmico: de HAMLET a SARABAND
Diez mil millones de años luz de evoluciones
Diez mil millones de años luz de evoluciones
Este artículo examina diversos aspectos de la teoría de la evolución (cósmica, biológica y cultural) entendida como una Gran Narración unificada, por vía de una lectura del volumen de Andrew Fabian Evolución: Sociedad, ciencia y universo desde la perspectiva de la narratología evolucionista. Los diversos aspectos de la evolución se presentan como el trasfondo conceptual que posibilita nuestras operaciones cognitivas de anclaje narrativo, que relacionan los procesos evolutivos a diferentes niveles (cósmico, biológico, mental y cultural). El objetivo es proporcionar una mayor apoyatura a la tesis de que la narratología es una disciplina esencial para la comprensión y análisis de los procesos evolutivos, pues éstos son representados mediante narraciones.
Diez mil millones de años luz de evoluciones 
English abstract:
Ten Billion Light Years of Evolutions
This paper examines a number of aspects of the theory of cosmic, biological and cultural evolution understood as a single Great Narrative, by way of an evolutionary narratological reading of Andrew C. Fabian's collection Evolution: Society, Science, and the Universe. The various aspects of evolution are presented as the conceptual background enabling our cognitive operations of narrative anchoring relating evolutionary processes at the different levels (cosmic, biological, mental and cultural). The aim is to provide further grounding for the claim that narratology is an essential discipline in the understanding and analysis of evolutionary processes, given that these are represented as narratives.
Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 35
Keywords: Evolution, Science, Cognition, Biology, Narratology, Narrative, Processes
| eJournal Classifications. Date posted: May 19, 2015 |
| CSN Subject Matter eJournals |
| PRN Subject Matter eJournals |
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Malevaje (2)
Malevaje (2)
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