Sir Norman Angell
Field of reference: Interdisciplinary
Description: Man is but a part of nature's living organism and must adapt to its interpendent laws. p 188 in the book.
“The individual in his sociological aspect is not the complete organism. He who attempts to live without association with his fellows dies. Nor is the nation the complete organism. If Britain attempted to live without cooperation with other nations, half the population would starve. The completer the cooperation, the greater the vitality; the more imperfect the cooperation, the less the vitality. Now, a body, the various parts of which are so interdependent that without coordination vitality is reduced or death ensues, must be regarded, in so far as the functions in question are concerned, not as a collection of rival organisms, but as one. This is in accord with what we know of the character of living organisms in their conflict with environment. The higher the organism, the greater the elaboration and interdependence of its part, the greater the need for coordination.If we take this as the reading of the biological law, the whole thing becomes plain; man's irresistible drift away from conflict and towards cooperation is but the completer adaptation of the organism (man) to its environment (the planet, wild nature), resulting in a more intense vitality.Man's general way of thinking of the totality, i.e. his general world view, is crucial for overall order of the human mind itself. If he thinks of the totality as constituted of independent fragments, then that is how his mind will tend to operate, but if he can include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken and without border (for every border is a division or break) then his mind will tend to move in a similar way, and from this will flow an orderly action within the whole."
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Dr. Bruce Lipton
Field of reference: Biology
Description: A summary of 2.5hr lecture by Dr. Lipton on the influence of the environment on human Biology
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Dr. Bruce Lipton
Field of reference: Biology
Description: Video Interview: speaks of experiments for determining the influence of the environment on cells in the beginning of the talk
"A very simple experiment that is very profound for us today is: If i took my dish, a plastic petry dish with cells in it, and moved it from a healthy environment to a less than healthy environment the cells get sick. And if I were a doctor of cells, well, you might say "what kind of drugs would you give these cells?"... It turns out, no, you don't give the cells any drugs. You just take the dish from the bad environment, put it back into a good environment, and the cells will innately, naturally, come back to health again."
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Field of reference: Biology
"Epigenetics in the broad sense refers to two kinds of inheritance. (1) Cellular epigenetic inheritance through mitotic cells and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance through meiotic cells. Transgenerational heredity of DNA methylation has been observed in unicellular organisms, plants, and mammals, suggesting that transgenerational epigenetic inheritance may be more prevalent than often suspected (Jablonka & Raz 2009). (2) Hereditary effects that by-pass the germline, for example through early developmental inputs that lead to regeneration of previous developmental conditions (e.g., hormonal and neural conditions) and other forms of phenotypic transmission, such as the transmission of symbionts and parasites, e.g., gut bacteria (Jablonka & Raz 2009)."
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Oxford Journals
Field of reference: Biology
Description: The appearance of a particular organ is the product of the genotype and the epigenotype, reacting with the external environment’.
"Historically, the term ‘epigenetics’ is attributed to Conrad Waddington (1905–75) who in the late 1930s remarked ‘It is, surely, obvious that the fertilized egg contains constituents which have definite properties which allow only a certain limited number of reactions to occur; in so far as this is true, one may say that development proceeds on a basis of the “preformed” qualities of the fertilized egg. But equally it is clear that the interaction of these constituents gives rise to new types of tissue and organ which were not present originally, and in so far development must be considered as “epigenetic” ’ [1]. He further remarked that ‘One might say that the set of organizers and organizing relations to which a certain piece of tissue will be subject during development make up its “epigenetic constitution” or “epigenotype”; then the appearance of a particular organ is the product of the genotype and the epigenotype, reacting with the external environment’."
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