Philosophy: Life emergent

My Life Philosophy

Modeling Emergent Life Histories of Copepods

The distribution and population dynamics of zooplankton are affected by the interplay between currents, behavior, and selective growth, mortality, and reproduction. Here, we present an individual based model for a copepod where life-history and behavioral traits are adapted using a genetic algorithm approach. The objectives were to investigate the importance of spatial and inter-annual variabil...

Emergent thoughts on the secrets of life.

TO THE EDITOR: Peter Macklem (1) makes important points relating to life most cogently. What we observe on the surface of the earth is most decidedly not what we might immediately predict from the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and this arises only through the constant supply of energy. In a sense, however, this is a permissive explanation—it says that we may observe ordered systems, but not nec...

Quality of life philosophy VI. The concepts.

The about a hundred central concepts related to research in the global quality of life can, in a holistic medical frame of interpretation, be organized under ten abstract key concepts: existence, creation of the world, state of being, daily living, talents, relations, sex, health, personal development, and therapy with subthemes as discussed in this paper. The paper shows that the concepts in e...

Elderly Life: Its Characteristics, Needs and Philosophy.

BBOSWELL: Boswell: What I admire in Ramsay is his continuing to be so young. Johnson: Why yes sir, it is to be admired. I value myself upon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversation. I am now sixty-eight and I have no more of it than at twenty-eight. Boswell: But sir, would you not wish to know old age? He who is never an old man does not know the whole of human life; for ol...