21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2021-02-21 06:18:43

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SO ENDS this second and last weekend focused on the history of vitalism. Later in time, reductionism hit the inevitable wall as a method to explain the world, and concepts entwined with systems, connections, and ‘greater than the sum of the parts’, evocative of the phenomena of emergence, were called upon to explain biological properties, ironically a new twist on vitalism. Emergence is but a fluffy term for unexpected phenomena that arise spontaneously out of complexity, but is not understood mechanistically. View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2021-02-23 05:13:27

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HI-DENSITY STAR QUESTIONS. “The CBM detector is designed to identify hadrons, electrons and muons in heavy-ion collisions, and to measure multi-differential observables with unprecedented precision and statistics. This includes the study of rare diagnostic probes such as multi-strange (anti-) hyperons, (double-) Lambda-hypernuclei, charmed particles and vector mesons decaying into lepton pairs. Most of these particles will be studied for the first time in the FAIR energy range.” (CBM = Compressed Baryonic Matter). https://lnkd.in/d3WhYQX View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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CRYSTAL SYMMETRY. “Pasteur, with his work on tartrates, cemented this focus on arrangement by explaining optical activity as an asymmetry in the crystalline form. Historians have associated this move with the continuation of a vitalist position. But it is also possible to see it as a part of a tradition even older than vitalism, drawing upon a language of active principles whose malleability allowed it to shift between a description of its living properties and its effects on the human body.” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786 View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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HI-DENSITY STAR QUESTIONS. “What is the equation of state of nuclear matter at neutron star densities, and what are the relevant degrees of freedom at these densities? Is there a phase transition from hadronic to quark-gluon matter, or a region of phase coexistence? Do exotic QCD phases like quarkyonic matter exist?” https://lnkd.in/d3WhYQX View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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PSYCHOANALYSIS “has further taught us that our intellect is a feeble and dependent thing, a plaything and tool of our instincts and affects, and that we are all compelled to behave cleverly or stupidly according to the commands of our [emotional] attitudes and internal resistances.” (Freud). https://lnkd.in/dawKbt4 View in LinkedIn
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