MCELLBI C61 Study Guide - Final Guide: Semisynthesis, Retina, Ct Scan
18 Aug 2016
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1. when a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Chauvet cave paintings, france: charcoal, ochre, and carved wall paintings; date more than thirty thousand years ago and are among the oldest currently known paleolithic cave art. Violence, killing of conspecifics: violent by nature, killing fellow human beings human deaths due to violence in the 20th century: 150mil-200mil. Mental experience: thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sense of self, awareness/consciousness, internal/subjective experiences. Physicalism/physical materialism: mind is determined by physiological processes in the brain and body. C. elegans: lives in soil all over the world, simple nervous system. Vertebrate brain: forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain, spinal cord; loops over. Views of the brain: dorsal, ventral, lateral, medial.
