"Welcome to the Capra Course! The lectures will be posted on this page. The first lecture will be released on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, and a new lecture will be released every Wednesday thereafter. By the time the course is completed, there will be 12 lectures released in total."
"After the last lecture is released on May 11, 2022, all 12 lectures will be accessible until June 22, 2022. The course will then be closed and alumni will be transferred to our Alumni Network."
"Please watch the video for each lecture, read the lecture summary, and then head on over to the Forum for discussion."
"You may begin by making connections with other students in the course any time using the forums or by reading the introduction to [[The Systems View of Life]] in preparation for the course."
within simple bubbles that tended to let some compounds selectively in and keep them in, those compounds collisioned and interacted much more often than without
rather than seeing evolution as the result of random mutations, the central focus is on the creativity unfolding of life in forms of increasing complexity of increasing diversity
Darwin knew not of a remedy to a problem of his theory: he thought heredity worked so that offspring received 50% of the traits of each ancestor, their offspring 25%, theirs 12.5%, etc.
Darwin saw this as a flaw as it showed that positive traits would disappear very quickly after arising and being selected by chance.
[[Mendel]] of course discovered the units of heredity, [[genes]].
[[Mendel]] wrote to [[Darwin]] ()!), and allegedly Darwin didn’t read the letter because it was in German and had too much math on it (!).
all three of the previous produce changes that need to be integrated into the physical and chemical environment; if the integration of new genetic information doesn’t work, the organism can’t survive -> there’s natural selection
real life example: in human life you make plans (you have a plan for your night), plans need to adapt to random occurrences (people you run into; other events out of your sphere of control). evolution works the same way.
[[rené descartes]] based his thought on a fundamental division between [[res cogitans]] (the thinking mind) and [[res extensa]] (matter, the extensive thing)
[[mind]] as an intangible entity poses the question of how it interacts with matter
mind and consciousness are not [[things]], they are [[processes]]
"[[agroecology]] (is/might be) able to raise agricultural productivity in ways that are economically viable, ecologically sound and socially uplifting"
soil that is organically managed is a carbon store (as it’s full of life)
[[carbon sequestration]] in soil and plants is currently the only known and proven technology to draw down [[co2]] from the atmostphere and in the long run stabilize climate
written while imprisoned under the [[soviet regime]]
"The kind of [[hope]] that I often think about I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t. It is a dimension of the [[soul]] and it’s not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something [[makes sense]] regardless of how it will turn out."