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We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units. Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity.

Comme nous l’indiquons plus loin, l’idée fixe de croissance devrait être remplacée par un complexe comportant croissances diverses, décroissances diverses, stabilisations diverses.

No fim das contas, os seres humanos não passam de portadores — vias — para os genes.

According to the theory of evolution, all biological entities – from elephants and oak trees to cells and DNA molecules – are composed of smaller and simpler parts that ceaselessly combine and separate.

These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.

The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.

Selon lui, une partie du problème vient que l’on presse les jeunes chercheurs de se spécialiser avant d’avoir appris à réfléchir ; au final, ils sont incapables de produire de bons travaux eux-mêmes et mal préparés pour repérer les erreurs (ou les fraudes) de leurs collègues.

not very useful, nor correct from an epistemic point of view. It applies to populations (Darwinian), and is completely silent if you consider a single living organism at a time