Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Animal machine or bête-machine (Fr., animal-machine), is a philosophical notion from Descartes in the 17th century who held that animal behaviour can be compared to the one of machines.
This sense of dread is connected most clearly to the erasure of human exceptionalism, as the characters within Annihilation must struggle to understand that the environment holds power over them, rather than the other way around. This, in that struggle with monstrosity, is the only way they will survive Area X.
An Allegory of Immortality, c. 1540. Monster derives from the Latin monstrum, itself derived ultimately from the verb moneo ("to remind, warn, instruct, or foretell"), and denotes anything "strange or singular, contrary to the usual course of nature, by which the gods give notice of evil," "a strange, unnatural, hideous person, animal, or thing," or any "monstrous or unusual thing ...
A Darwinian demon is a hypothetical organism that would result if there were no biological constraints on evolution.Such an organism would maximize all aspects of fitness simultaneously and would exist if there were no limitations from available variation or physiological constraints. [1]
Higher-order theory can account for the distinction between unconscious and conscious brain processing. Both types of mental operations involve first-order manipulations, and according to higher-order theory, what makes cognition conscious is a higher-order observation of the first-order processing. [1]
YouTuber MrBeast has a huge following. Here's what parents need to know about him. (Image: Getty; illustration by Jay Sprogell for Yahoo) ((Image: Getty; illustration by Jay Sprogell for Yahoo))
The very idea of an ordering of organisms, even if supposedly fixed, laid the basis for the idea of transmutation of species, whether progressive goal-directed orthogenesis or Charles Darwin's undirected theory of evolution. [20] [21] The chain of being continued to be part of metaphysics in 19th-century education, and the concept was well known.
MrBeast tested Elon Musk’s theory and took home $250,000. Clare Duffy, CNN. January 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM. Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images.