Thoughts On Life

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...

Thoughts on the Synthesis of Life

One of the most challenging problems in Artiicial Life remains the creation of open ended evolution. A number of current eeorts are directed at this problem. One characteristic that these eeorts generally share is that they parallel the origin of life event, in that they attempt to create pre-biotic conditions from which Artiicial Life may emerge spontaneously and evolve in an open ended fashio...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Thoughts on Social Design

Thoughts on the Bulletin.

Because daguerreotype photographs are usually reversed laterally from actuality, images of W.T.G. Morton falsely suggest that he sometimes changed the side of the part in his hair. Because of daguerreotype image reversal, a statue of Apollo in the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital appears to have been moved for the 50th anniversary of Ether Day. Ether anesthesia was announced in ...