![]() ![]() Jumping genes, transcription factors, epigenetic influences, etc. As he goes through the lecture, prior themes will come to mind, such as the earlier points about the frontal cortex, the most complex part of humans, being the least constrained by genes. Part of chaos theory is that there is no end to the potential for reducing (think quarks) and that at a certain point we hit the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and end up with randomness. These blocks are then believed to be consistent - figure them out scientifically and you can reproduce the results. So we can go from saying people have feelings, to people have limbic systems to people have neurotransmitters and on down the line and at each level we come closer to the fundamental building blocks. Part of what's analyzed is reductive science, which is basically the concept that we can dig deeper and to ever smaller portions of a thing and ultimately gain knowledge about that thing. ![]() The assigned book is Chaos by James Gleick. ![]()
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