Group:
psychology
Group:
relationship between brain and behavior
Topic:
coordinated movement
Topic:
evolutionary systems
Topic:
reality is a machine
Topic:
people better than computers
Topic:
sense perception
Topic:
vitalism, the soul
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Summary
Biology is the scientific study of living things. In contrast to physics, biology is mostly descriptive. (cbb 6/06)
Subtopic: life 
| Quote: life is consciousness of space and time; competition for space is one of the primitive forms of biological interaction [»thomR_1975]
| | Quote: da Vinci--a bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law; man can reproduce all of its movements [»daviL_1505]
| | Quote: when solar photons hit the earth, they change abruptly to heat; life smoothes out the discontinuity [»thomR_1975]
| | Quote: a plant is nothing but an upheaval of the earth toward the light
| | Quote: there are geometric objects in biology that prescribe the only possible forms capable of self-reproduction
| | Quote: living things are organized at multiple levels; unlike inanimate objects [»shapR_1986]
| | Quote: the greatness of nature can be infinitely contemplated. Nature is subtle and works with unspeakable care
| | Quote: any body that has organs has a soul; e.g., a plant, its roots are like the mouth
| | Quote: the soul may be nutritive, perceptive, desiderative, locomotive, and intellective; plants have only the nutritive [»aris_322b]
| | Quote: the organs require the body; a hand, or eye, or nose, if separate and free, would melt with decay [»lucr_55]
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Subtopic: dynamics
| Quote: Complementarity Principle for living systems--nature uses dynamics to the fullest while symbols used sparingly for direction and simplification [»turvMT_1984]
| | Quote: work out the dynamic aspects of natural systems before introducing symbol strings to complete the explanation; avoids arbitrariness
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Subtopic: design vs. evolution
| Quote: nothing is born for our use; rather, that which is borne creates its own use; the tongue predates the word [»lucr_55]
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Subtopic: theory
| Quote: biological concepts are simple but they include extreme complexity; otherwise no theory or no need for a theory [»thomR_1975]
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Subtopic: experiments
| Quote: add artificial obstacles to discover the goal or purpose of a behavior; the invariants represent the goals [»ohalJJ_1980]
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Subtopic: insects
| Quote: while vertebrate embryos are very similar, beetle larvae vary widely [»bateG_1979]
| | Quote: Galileo made the first printed illustrations of insects under a microscope [»drakS_1978]
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Subtopic: circulatory system
| Quote: cells within 3-4 cells of a blood vessel, yet blood vessels take 5% of body's volume; fractal dimension measures the branching [»misc12_1985]
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Subtopic: nervous system
| Quote: the marine snail's nervous system is well-understand and can function independently of the body; i.e., no fundamental difference between brain and computers [»schwJ_1987]
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Subtopic: motor system
| Quote: it is impossible to turn both eyes out at the same time because the eye's muscles are controlled together [»feynRP_1963]
| | Quote: use rapid, overlearned, uniform responses to study the capacity of the motor system independently from the sensory system [»fittPM6_1954]
| | Quote: the information capacity of the motor system can be inferred from the statistical variability of successive, uniform responses [»fittPM6_1954]
| | Quote: no continuous change except locomotion, and no continuous locomotion except cyclical
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Subtopic: genetics
| Quote: could construct suffix tree for human genome in 46G memory and nine hours [»kurtS11_1999]
| | Quote: genomic nucleotide data has a fairly uniform distribution of 9-grams; poor locality [»heinS4_2002]
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Subtopic: male/female
Quote: male and female is not an essential difference; the same seed may produce either depending on circumstances
[»aris_322a]
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Related Topics
Group: psychology (9 topics, 307 quotes)
Group: relationship between brain and behavior (9 topics, 332 quotes)
Topic: coordinated movement (58 items)
Topic: evolutionary systems (47 items)
Topic: reality is a machine (48 items)
Topic: people better than computers (35 items)
Topic: sense perception (55 items)
Topic: vitalism, the soul
(73 items)
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