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Nature VS Nurture
David S. Moore, The dependent Gene

Human Nature is imagined to reside within our bodies, to be that with we are born, that which exists independently of our experiences. In contrast, Nurture, is imagined to arise outside of our bodies, usually understood to comprise our experiences. This is sort of a problematic concept.

Every breath we take, every meal we eat, every scene we see is assimilated into the very structures and functions of our bodies, literally becoming us.

Our bodies and minds are built from ‘scratch’ through the mutual actions of those natural elements that are within and around us.

Nurture is also Nature.

We are certainly Natural, but we are also completely embedded in Nature.

Our ‘innate’ abilities are a result of the culture we live in rather than a biological result.

Biology has an inflexible view of Human Nature considering our plasticity and flexibility.

Humans mistake the Cultural for the Natural.

An aggressive response to an attack is not learned it is biological.

Emotion are designed to protect each of us as individuals. When they get extended into generalized rules that spread within a group - imitation.

Morality can emerge without instruction. Innate domains arrive with no need for instruction. Moral domain only arrives with extensive instruction.

Humans are learning machines and everything we do is a result of learning.

We are all products of socialization so we should respect the difference and appreciate people with different values.

Most of us have an intuitive sense that the answer to understanding ourselves is hidden in the origins of our traits.

Our traits emerge from the mutually dependent activity of both genetic and environmental factors.

If intelligence is largely genetic, perhaps we are wasting money by pouring public founding into schools.

A school environment allows every student to reach his or her genetically preordained intellectual potential. Sandra Scarr

The characteristics of an animal – be it a clone or a naturally produced – are determined by the mutual interaction of the animals chromosomes with the unique environment in witch the animal develops.

Despite recent technological advances that have allowed for gene discovery, genetic engineering and cloning, all genetic activity still always depends on the environmental conditions in witch development occurs.

Trait development – We maintain that it is theoretically impossible to determine how much of a trait is caused by genes and how much is caused by environmental factors.

What Nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly and kindly. Francis Galton

Statistics fundamentally changed how scientists could make sense of their observations of Nature.

Incomplete Nature
Terrence W. Deacon

We have been looking in the wrong places about consciousness. We always try to look for correspondence with the physical world we forget about what it is not there.

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection and Claude Shannon’s Theory of Information are based in paying attention to what is intrinsically not present in everything.

Without spiritual knowledge one can not know oneself as a conscious Human being.

Nature of convenience
Next Nature

Nature is a collective delusion.

Both in Art and Nature the replica are now just as good if not better than the original. Walter Benjamin

The new nature comes to you, it became virtual with an on and off switch.

Nature development in Time
Louis Le Roy

Complex structure in Nature have the ability to develop on the course of time.

Complex Ecosystems grow from initially simple forms.

Development of complexity and creativity within Nature.

The more information one processes the more order one produces.

If in one place order is created, chaos will arise in the other.

Entropy grows toward a maximum state of equilibrium, in course of time, a greater number of chaotic situations develops than those initially regulated.

IF each system tries to accomplish the situation of highest entropy then the aim of evolution is just progress along a road without ever reaching a destination.

Simple forms are inhuman’ as these do not find any echo in the way in witch Nature is build up and how Human observation perceives the world. Benoit Mandelbrot

Because the moment one determines a simple form as definite one simultaneously cuts off the possibility of this form developing into its maximum complexity.

Ecosystems that are not open to change cannot claim to be ecological.

As that of mans sense of space and time degenerates, he will be increasingly less capable to function as a natural machine in a complete manner.

The activities of man generate, exactly like Nature, from initially simple structures, organized complexity which is intensified, without, however, ever reaching the maximum, in order to develop in a creative fashion.

From the day when man, with the salutatory development of mental skills, started to distinguish himself from other forms of life on our planet, did the most prominent and important scientists presumptuously try to understand the secret phenomenon time, in their search for the meaning of life.

Sculpt with Nature

Nature refers to the world of real and visible phenomena and at the same time, to the world of its laws.

The term Sculpture is connected with the instrumental and complex use of natural materials through witch form is given to a certain concept or idea.