Borderless Beings

Borderless science and borderless arts: past and present.

Today, a successful career in science makes one international or global. People move laboratories and change countries. Researchers collaborate and interact around the globe. The notion of the international nature of science was prominent in the recent BBC program “Desert Island Discs,” in which the guest was Sir Andre Geim, a physicist and the winner, with Konstantin Novoselov, of the 2010 Nob...

Characteristics of Living Beings

Flexible Systems Approach to Management in a Borderless World

The managerial issues in a borderless world are becoming far more intricate and complex and requires to be handled differently at different levels in diverse situations. There is a need to resolve the paradoxes in literature regarding various schools of thought, and as a response to this a flexible systems approach to management is presented in this paper as a spectral and integrative paradigm....

Representations and Inhomogeneous Beings

Beside the regularly applied concepts (e.g. neuron, brain, sign, representation, code, sense, experience, perception, etc.) an additional collection of concepts (entities, interaction, border, inhomogeneity, dialectics, necessity and contingency, freedom, historicity, acquaintance and knowledge, culture.) is proposed for the better understanding mind and cognition. An anti-Parmenidian ontology ...

On cloning human beings.

The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cloning is developed. I will analyze some of the assumptions underlying the main arguments that hav...