Published in the August/September 2019 issue of the Philosophy Now magazine The boundaries between the parts and the whole are almost non-existent on the canvases of the Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593). Arcimboldo composed portraits […]
In the philosophy of science there is a segment, not so familiar, but with sufficient identity that it deserves the name: evolutionary epistemology (EE). One of the goals of EE is to explain how biological […]
We suffer from the feeling of cosmic loneliness. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, summed up our geeky nature by asking a simple question: Where is everybody? All predictions […]
Dedicated to Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) an epitome of a rebel Lynn at Boston University c. 1980; Boston University Archives (courtesy of Dorion Sagan) The exuberant rebellion of youth against all sorts of conformity, ordinarily […]
Is the man technically the most intelligent species on the planet? Judging by our technologies, from the Internet through building skills to the military industry, medicine and artificial intelligence, there is no doubt that Homo […]
Originally published on The Conversation 4th August 2017. Republished on: IFL Science Phys.org Netzpiloten Inkl InnerSelf News Republic Highlighted and commented on: Usbek & Rica French magazine that explores future: “An original and dizzy view of […]
Originally published on The Conversation 7th November 2016. Republished on: Phys.org Enca.com If you put all humans living on the planet into an imaginary tin like sardines, the tin would be 2km long, wide and […]
Welcome to my blog! I am a professional scientist with over 25 years of working experience at Leiden, St Andrews, Cambridge and Brunel universities. I’m interested in biomolecules, cells, organisms, how organisms form societies, and […]
This is the list of my recent papers available as pdf files: Predrag Slijepcevic (2019) Principles of information processing and natural learning in biological systems. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, under review. JGPS-S-18-00147 Predrag Slijepcevic (2018) […]
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