Sublime

the distinctive features of a new species that takes over a niche, are emergent properties of the problem or niche. In other words, obtaining solutions is inherently complex. There is no simple way of discovering the true nature of planets, given (say) a critique of the celestial-sphere theory and some additional observations, just as there is no s

much of modern evolutionary biology is also cloaked by a thick pretense of knowledge.

A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is delimited by her senses. The boundaries of the human Umwelt often make the Umwelten of others opaque to us.

McClintock, Prusiner, and Marshall offered projective thinking, suspending their disbelief regarding scientific views accepted at the time.

These three research axes converge in one aim: contributing to actualizing the innovational potential of autopoietic biology, which is still far from being fully exploited by contemporary scientific and philosophical research.

Many organisms do actively shape their environments in striking ways, but there is no reason to suppose that the environment does very much shaping in return.

assembly theory, a way of differentiating life from nonlife, not by its chemistry but by its complexity.

When we do, we assume the politicians are clients in a patron–client relationship, and we assume their obligations will cloud their impartial judgment.

En tant que scientifique, je suis ne parfait accord avec Darwin, Gould, Pinker et Dawkins. Je n’ai aucune patience envers ceux qui défendent l’idée d’un dessein intelligent, du moins dans le sens où la plupart utilisent cette expression.