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Interdisciplinary Convergences with Biology and Ethics via Cell Biologist Ernest Everett Just and Astrobiologist Sir Fred Hoyle
In: Panentheism and Panpsychism
Author: Theodore Walker Jr.
Biology and ethics (general bioethics) can supplement panpsychism and panentheism. According to cell biologist Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941) ethical behaviors (observable indicators of decision-making, teleology, and psychology) evolved from our very most primitive origins in cells. Hence, for an essential portion of the panpsychist spectrum, from cells to humans, ethical behavior is natural and necessary for evolutionary advances. Also, biology-based mind-body-cell analogy (Hartshorne 1984) can illuminate panentheism. And, consistent with panpsychism, astrobiologist/cosmic biologist Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) extends evolutionary biology and life-favoring teleology beyond planet Earth (another Copernican revolution) via theories of stellar evolution, cometary panspermia, and cosmic evolution guided by (finely tuned by) providential cosmic intelligence, theories consistent with a panentheist natural theology that justifies ethical realism.
1. Biology and Ethics—From Cells to Humans—E. E. Just
1.1 Interdisciplinary Convergences with Biology
Obviously, deliberating about »panpsychism and panentheism« requires attending to psychology and theology. And it may be that logic and argumentation can demonstrate that panpsychism is correct.
Nevertheless, Benedikt Paul Göcke finds that logically valid arguments showing »that panpsychism is correct« do not address »how it is possible that panpsychism is correct« (2018: 231). Also, logically valid arguments do not address empirical questions about actuality. Attempts at »empirical justification« are discouraged by various factors, including »the idea that panpsychism is useless speculation,« the »epistemic asymmetry between mental and physical properties,« the lack of »direct access« to other minds, and the seemingly »completely alien to us« nature of extreme low level phenomena or »proto-mentality« (Brüntrup and Jaskolla 2017: 4). Furthermore, empirical questions are not addressed because logical arguments from panentheist theology, transcendental metaphysics, and transcendental phenomenology are indeed methods appropriate to demonstrating that panpsychism has positive truth-value.
Nevertheless, Göcke's finding stands. Logically valid arguments do not address how panpsychism is possible. And, for addressing how our psychism came to be actual, transcendental deductions need to be inferentially and synthetically related to actual examples, including examples from our nonhuman relatives.
In metaphysics, exemplification does not prove, demonstrate, or justify. Nevertheless, examples can illustrate and illuminate metaphysical truths (logically necessary truths about existence as such). To be sure, actuality describes its part of possibility; and analysis, synthesis, extrapolation, and speculation can describe various other parts of possibility. And, any actual or any conceivable counter-example would demonstrate that a putative metaphysical claim in not a genuine metaphysical claim, even if said claim described a factual/contingent truth. Hence, in addition to studying logic, transcendental metaphysics, theology, and transcendental phenomenology, for the sake of illustrating and illuminating panpsychism and panentheism, along with studying physics and psychology, we should study biology.1
And perhaps not obviously, studying broad-spectrum evolutionary biology, ranging from humans to cells, brings us to yet another discipline: moral theory/ethics.
1.2 General Biology and Bioethics
In cell biology, Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941) was a pioneer. He was first to observe and describe the »wave of negativity« spreading around the surface of an egg cell from the entrance point of the fertilizing spermatozoon (thereby repulsing other sperm) and first to describe »fast and slow blocks to polyspermy« (Byrnes 2010). In addition to authoring more than seventy articles, and co-authoring with Frank R. Lillie the chapter on »Fertilization« in General Cytology: A Textbook of Cellular Structure and Function for Students of Biology and Medicine (1924); Just authored The Biology of the Cell Surface (1939a), and Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Animals (1939b), plus numerous unpublished deliberations on general biology and ethics.
E. E. Just advanced »basic methods« (1939b) rigorously attentive to the specific environment that is normal for living specimens. Prior to Just, marine biologists were habitually making uncritical use of specimens (often killed-and-fixed) extracted from their normal-natural environments. Just criticized and corrected findings and concepts derived from such faulty methods. And he encouraged attention to development within normal-natural environments. Today, in ecological development biology (eco-dev biology), integrative systems biology, and embryo morphogenesis, Just's contributions are described as pioneering.2
In accordance with his pioneering basic methods, Just held that biology should distinguish without separating living organisms from their living environment. Just says:
The living thing is part of the natural world, it grows and lives on the stuff of which it is made and whence it came. Then living thing and outside world constitute one interdependent unity, as evolution teaches, as the development of an animal egg reveals. …
(Just 1939a: 366)
The interdependence between individual and outside world is a postulate which has its sanction not from any abstract philosophical principle, but is true because of the biological basis here set for. The best system of philosophy, then, is that which recognizes living thing and outside world as one interdependent continuum. Instead of building our philosophical theories of life on the behavior of electrons, it is safer to erect them on a biological basis. …
(Just 1939a: 366-67)
Just's biology-based philosophy of nature produced a general theory of life, a »general biology« that identifies phenomena common to all life (April 1940). According to Just, living individuals are parts of the natural world, and »they form together one inter-acting system« (1939a: 356), »one interdependent continuum,« and »one interdependent unity« (1939a: 366-67). Obviously, Just's general biology is consistent with panpsychism and panentheism.
In Biology of the Cell Surface (1939a), where Just was mainly concerned to offer an account of the living ectoplasm interacting with a living environment, he also offered briefly a biology-based theory of ethics, a general bioethics. Just's general bioethics is distinct from special medical bioethics. Special bioethics treats medical ethics among humans. Just's general bioethics treats the evolution of ethical behavior, starting from cells.
The first book using the term »bioethics« was Bioethics: Bridge to the Future (1971) by Van Rensselaer Potter (born 1911, died 2001). Relative to contemporary medical meanings (medical ethics, nursing ethics, biomedical ethics), Potter's original meaning of the term »bioethics« was literally biology converges with ethics. And given this wider scope (wider than medical ethics), bioethics included relating study of land-and-forest to ethics. So Potter dedicated his book to the memory of land conservationist Aldo Leopold (born 1887, died 1948), »who anticipated the extension of ethics to Bioethics« (Potter 1971: v). The wide scope of »bioethics« allowed adding »global« to Global Bioethics: Building on the Leopold Legacy (1988) by Van Rensselaer Potter.3 Here Potter identified Leopold as »unquestionably the first bioethicist« because Leopold was »first to envision a new ethical basis for human conduct« and »first to develop an ecological ethic (which he called the land ethic) …« (Potter 1988: xiii). Hence, bioethicists should appreciate the »pioneering efforts« (Potter 1988: xiv) advanced in »The Land Ethic« in A Sand County Almanac (1949) by Aldo Leopold.
Another pioneering approach to general bioethics, an approach that was pioneering for ecological development biology, was advanced in Biology of the Cell Surface (1939a [also 1933; 1940]) by Ernest Everett Just. In his brief account of biology converging with ethics, Just supplemented a Darwinian emphasis (upon struggle against the surrounding environment) by adding a Kropotkinian [Peter Kropotkin] emphasis upon »mutual aid« and »co-operation« with the surroundings. Just said:
Life is not only a struggle against the surroundings from which life came; it is also a co-operation with them. The Kropotkin theory of mutual aid and co-operation may be a better explanation of the cause of evolution than the prevailing popular conception of Darwin's idea of the struggle for existence. [And with cells, T.W.] The means of co-operation and adjustment is the ectoplasm [the cell surface, T.W.]. …
Just agreed with Kropotkin. Natural selection alone cannot explain evolutionary advances. »Mutual aid« and »co-operation« with the surroundings (ethical behaviors) are essential to explaining evolution.
And in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) Peter Kropotkin had predicted that future research would reveal »mutual aid« among microbes.
With many large divisions of the animal kingdom mutual aid is the rule. Mutual aid is met with even amidst the lowest animals, and we must be prepared to learn some day, from the students of microscopical pond-life, facts of unconscious mutual support, even from the life of micro-organisms.
(Kropotkin 1902: 14)
Just's study of microscopic life fulfilled Kropotkin's prediction. Just recognized that in order for multicellular organisms to evolve from single cell organisms, or grow from individual egg cells, »co-operation« and »mutual aid« are necessary; and he observed examples of this bioethical principle at microbial levels.
1.3 Mind-Body-Cell Analogy
Biology can serve panpsychism and panentheism by supplying an exceptionally illuminating analogy.4 Contrary to Krause's explicit argument against understanding panentheism in any spatial way (Göcke 2018: 178-179), a human mind-body-cell analogy adds a spatial metaphor (inside, outside) for panentheism understood as all-inside-God-ism. Biology shows that we are composed of living cells; and experience reveals that a living person is more than the sum of her/his cellular parts. According to Charles Hartshorne's biology-instructed »person-to-cell analogy« for God, all creatures are like cells in the »cosmic body« of the all-inclusive Creator, »outside« of whom »there is nothing« (1984: 59; also 1975 [c1937]: 197).
This biology-based analogy illuminates the panentheist idea that God is the one all-inclusive living individual »in whom we live and move and have our being« (Clayton and Peacocke 2004), the »one all-inclusive whole of reality« (Ogden 1984: 21; also Hartshorne 1973 [1967]: 7, 12, 16; 1975 [c1937]: 25, 72, 163, 208).5 Nevertheless, in agreement with Krause, the spatial inside-outside aspect of mind-body-cell analogy fails to show there can be no »outside« of the all-inclusive whole of reality.
1.4 Partialist Fallacy
The idea of one all-inclusive-living-loving-creative whole of reality is a panentheistic conception of »the Creator« (in whom we creatures live and move). Here theology (all-inclusive Creator) is rightly entangled with biology (included creatures and creations). Obviously, from this panentheistic-Creator-affirming perspective, failure to conceive of one all-inclusive living whole of reality (conceiving only of parts) is a fallacy in theology and biology.
And perhaps not obviously, conceiving only of parts is also a fallacy in ethics. To be sure, this »partialist fallacy« was explicitly named in two books on moral theory (Gamwell 1984; Gamwell 1996 [c1990]).
In Franklin I. Gamwell's The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory and the Necessity of God (1996 [c1990]), »partialist fallacy« labels a failure to refer to the all-inclusive whole of reality that includes »the divine good« which is »the comprehensive variable that identifies the good as such« (1996 [c1990]: 149n.15, 178). Similarly, the logical necessity of reference to divine goodness in ethics is developed in chapter 4 »God and Righteousness« in Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism (1941) by Charles Hartshorne. According to Hartshorne, theology serves theory of value by providing »explicit recognition« of »the whole of which all lesser values are parts« (Hartshorne 1975 [c1937]: 25). Following Hartshorne, Gamwell finds that the »partialist fallacy« (failure to refer to the divine whole) has been characteristic of modern moral theory since Immanuel Kant. And because reference to God (whose necessary existence is demonstrated by valid metaphysical arguments) and the divine good is a necessity for adequate moral theory, modern moral theory is necessarily inadequate.
1.5 Partialist Fallacy in Cosmology
In addition to recognizing the partialist fallacy in biologically-psychologically entangled theology, and in moral theory, we should also recognize the partialist fallacy in cosmology. Though the very word »cosmos« implies a cosmic whole, many cosmological theories refer only to parts of reality. Referencing only parts of reality (even all parts of reality [for example, in one form of pan-theism God is the sum of all parts of reality]) can yield only inadequate accounts of cosmic reality.
The term »big bang« (a term coined by »steady state« advocate Fred Hoyle) encourages committing the partialist fallacy by suggesting analogy to an exploding bomb or grenade. With a bang, a grenade explodes into many fragments, obliterating the whole grenade. For the sake of correcting our tendency to conceive only of parts, we should notice that unexploded whole grenades are parts of the whole of reality, and that exploded grenade fragments are also parts of the whole of reality. Unlike parts of reality, the whole of reality is eternally all-inclusive. Cosmology should include recognizing that whether exploding/expanding or collapsing, or in some relatively steady state, all parts of reality are parts of the cosmic whole of reality.
To conceive only of parts (as though there could be parts of no whole of reality) is to commit the partialist fallacy. Where the partialist fallacy is avoided, cosmology converges with theology and moral theory.
1.6 Ethical Behavior Rooted in Biology
In moral theory, when going beyond the logically necessary metaphysics of morals, in addition to avoiding the partialist fallacy by referring to the necessary whole of reality (the divine good), an adequate moral theory must also refer to unnecessary/contingent factual examples. And according to Just, moral theory should have roots in biology. »Here«—among non-reductionist theories of life instructed by observations from biology, including cell biology—»we may seek the roots of man's ethical behavior« (Just 1939a: 367). In the final footnote in Biology of the Cell Surface, Just said he would »deal with this point at greater length« in a »forthcoming« work (1939a: 367).
Tragically, before he could persuade a publisher to print said forthcoming work on the biological roots of human ethical behavior, Just died in 1941. Thankfully, manuscript pages are preserved at the Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
1.7 Biological Origins of Ethical Behavior
»The Origin of Man's Ethical Behavior« (1941, unpublished manuscript6) was co-authored by Ernest Everett Just and his research associate Hedwig A. Schnetzler Just. In the opening chapter »The Problem Stated,« after rejecting the idea that moral theory should be restricted to religion and philosophy, Just and Just say: »… we intend to treat ethics as a problem in biology … It is within the field of biology, then, that we locate human ethics, or better to say, man's ethical behavior« (Just and Just 1941: 2-3 [also 4, 91, 146]).
The »origin of man's corporeal being« (»his material being«) is described in terms of evolutionary biology. Similarly, according to Just and Just, the »origin of man's ethical behavior« (»Man as spiritual being …«) should be described in terms of evolutionary biology. (Just and Just 1941: 6-8).
Darwin, Huxley, Kropotkin, and others had in various ways related ethics to evolutionary influences from sub-human relatives, such as apes and other mammals with brains and central nervous systems and herd instincts.7 To this, Just and Just added a more distant reach. They reached further down the biological spectrum, and further back in the history of life on Earth, than contemporary or previous others. They argued that ethical behavior (mutual aid and cooperation with others and with the surrounding environment) »evolved« from our »very most primitive fore-runner« (Just and Just 1941: 12 [also 17]): from cells.
The Just and Just emphasis upon observing »mutual aid« (Kropotkin) and »co-operation« (»ethical behavior«) throughout nature (from the most primitive cells to humans) witnessed against the prevailing overemphasis upon competitive ›struggle for existence,‹ an overemphasis advanced more by followers of Darwin than by Darwin who was speaking in metaphor (Just and Just 1941: 108, 110, 119 [also p. 240]). This overemphasis produced a crisis for moral theory/ethics conceived as part of natural philosophy. Contrary to generic natural law, this overemphasis made ethical behavior seem unnatural, even contrary to nature. In the postscript »Mutual Aid and Ethics« (1941: 211-243) Just addressed this crisis and its aftermath in the opening paragraph, saying:
The promulgation of the theory of natural selection, emphasizing as it did the struggle for existence, dates a crisis in ethics. Over-emphasized by Darwin's followers, the struggle for existence came soon to be a credo not only in biology but also outside of it. It gave birth to a philosophy that founded a new political school of thought which, in my judgment, came to be more pernicious than the Machiavellian idea which, save for sporadic recrudescenses, was in modern times outmoded. Thus translated, it gave western civilization a new fire, all the more injurious because an invention alleged to be nature's creation. It came to be spiritually a burning of all books about airy dreams wherein Utopias and sequestered isles of peace were chartered. It left only hell burning, made earth a hell of struggle; in the smoke, paradise vanished and with it peace on earth and good will to men.
(Just and Just 1941: 211 [postscript page »a«], italics added)
Similarly, panpsychist-panentheist logician-philosopher Charles Hartshorne had seen that it was important to correct the Darwinian idea that ethical behavior is not natural. In Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature (1975 [c1937]) Hartshorne said:
The Darwinian conception of animal life as primarily a ruthless struggle certainly did contaminate ethics extensively. Those who wished to resist this contamination did two things: they emphasized the distinctiveness of man (Huxley), and they pointed out that cooperation is as genuine an aspect of all animal life as conflict, even if the scope of the cooperation is usually very narrow (Kropotkin). This insistence that human love is not an utter stranger in the world was logically [Ñ29|30Ò] and psychologically imperative. We must somehow see the world as one, even in respect to ethical problems …
(Hartshorne 1975 [c1937]: 29-30)
Over-emphasis upon competitive struggle in nature contaminated ethics (Hartshorne 1975 [c1937]: 29) and dated »a crisis in ethics« (Just and Just 1941: 211 [a]). This crisis-inducing over-emphasis was corrected by recognizing the importance of mutual aid and co-operation (ethical behavior) throughout nature, even among cells. Thereby, cell biologist Ernest Everett Just and Hedwig A. Schnetzler Just made an important contribution to moral theory/ethics.
Now, with the 2018 discovery of this unpublished manuscript, their contribution can be more widely received. In addition to appreciating Just's pioneering contributions to cell biology, now we can better appreciate his contributions to biology-based moral theory. Furthermore, appreciating Just's general biology and bioethics may help with achieving new advances in psychology, anthropology, and social ethics.
1.8 Psychology, Anthropology, Social Ethics—Traveling a Path Pioneered by Just
In psychology and anthropology, some theorists are traveling a path converging with biology and ethics, a path pioneered by Just from the 1930s to 1941. Among preeminent examples, evolutionary influences upon ethical behavior are described by Robert Wright (1994), William F. Allman (1994), Jeremy Rifkin (2009), and Frans de Waal (2009).
Robert Wright in The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (1994) quotes Charles Darwin predicting that »through study of evolution, ›light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history,'« and »›in the distant future‹ the study of psychology ›will be based on a new foundation'« (Wright 1994: 3 [Origin of Species, p. 458 (Wright endnote 1)]). Wright emphasizes »distant future« by observing that in 1960, 100 years after Origin of Species (1859), historian John C. Greene observed that Darwin would have been disappointed because in 1960 anthropological studies included little study of evolutionary influences [See Darwin and the Modern World View (1961) by John C. Greene]; but, »a revolution started« between 1963 and 1974 when four biologists (William Hamilton; George C. Williams; Robert Trivers; John Maynard Smith) wrote about evolutionary influences upon the social behavior of nonhuman animals (Wright 1994: 4). Then, in 1975, a transdisciplinary synthesis (of social behavior studies in animals and evolutionary biology) produced »sociobiology« in Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975). And since the mid-1970s, increasingly, evolutionary biology has been applied to human behavior. This revolutionary paradigm shift is leading to a »new science of evolutionary psychology« (Robert Wright 1994). Similarly, rooting modern psychology and modern behavior in stone age humanity yields evolutionary psychology in William F. Allman's The Stone Age Present: How Evolution Has Shaped Modern Life: From Sex, Violence, and Language to Emotions, Morals, and Communities (1994).
More recently, in Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (2009) Jeremy Rifkin offers »a new interpretation of the history of civilization« (p. 1). This new interpretation is based upon a »radical new view of human nature« that is now »emerging in the biological and cognitive sciences« (p. 1). Rifkin says this new interpretation is »forcing us to rethink the long-held belief that human beings are, by nature, aggressive, materialistic, utilitarian, and self-interested« (p. 1). We are being forced to rethink human nature because scientists are now discovering that nature generally is not adequately described by the still prevailing view that evolution is about ›survival of the fittest‹ where ›the fittest‹ are the most aggressively self-interested. Instead, new research indicates ›fitness for survival‹ includes capacity for empathy and cooperative pursuit of mutual wellbeing. Rifkin argues that a realistic hope for overcoming our present global ecological crisis can derive from this new discovery of empathy in nature. Similarly, in The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (2009) Frans de Waal argues that new research revealing altruism and fairness among animals can inspire a biology-based pursuit of »a kinder society.«
And most recently, contemporary researchers are starting to see what E. E. Just reported during the 1930s, cooperative behavior among cells. For instance, see »Team Players: Long thought mostly to compete with one another, microbes turn out to form partnerships that rule the planet« (November 2018) by Jeffrey Marlow and Rogier Braakman.
Natural law is not about »only the Angelicall and human Nature« (Matthew Hale 2015 [1693]: 13). According to cell biologist Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941), from cells to humans, ethical behavior is natural and necessary for evolutionary advances.
In Part II, we will see how astrobiologist/cosmic biologist Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) extends evolutionary biology and life-favoring teleology beyond planet Earth via theories of stellar evolution, cometary panspermia, and cosmic evolution guided by (finely tuned by) providential cosmic intelligence.8 And we will see that these theories are consistent with a panentheist »natural theology« that justifies ethical realism.9
2. Biology and Ethics—Beyond Earth Science—Fred Hoyle
2.1 Another Scientific Revolution
Consider the popular idea of two scientific revolutions: a Copernican revolution followed by a Darwinian revolution. This idea is addressed by biologist Francisco J. Ayala in »From Paley to Darwin: Design to Natural Selection« (2008) in Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution, edited by John B. Cobb Jr. In a chapter section—titled »Darwin's Revolution«—Ayala argues persuasively that a »priggish version« of this idea is true, yet inadequate.
I have proposed that this version of the two revolutions is inadequate: what it says is true, but it misses what is most important about these two intellectual revolutions, namely, that they ushered in the beginning of science in the modern sense of the word. These two revolutions may jointly be seen as the one scientific revolution, with two stages, the Copernican and the Darwinian. … Origin of Species is important because it completed the Copernican revolution, initiated three centuries earlier, and thereby radically changed our conception of the universe and the place of mankind in it.
(Ayala 2008: 68)
Ayala holds that Copernicus and Darwin achieved »one scientific revolution with two stages« (2008: 68).
Stage one of this scientific revolution [Copernicus] »consisted in displacing the earth from its previously accepted locus as the center of the universe, moving it to a subordinate place as one more planet revolving around the sun« (Ayala 2008: 67, italics added).
Stage two of this same scientific revolution [Darwin] »consisted in displacing humans from their position as the center of life on Earth, with all other species created for the purpose of humankind, and placing humans instead as one species among many in the living world, so that humans are related to chimpanzees, gorillas, and other species by shared common ancestry« (Ayala 2008: 67-68, italics added). The Darwinian second stage »… completed the Copernican revolution …« (Ayala 2008: 68, 69).
Accordingly, scientific revolution stage one (in astronomy) was displacing the Earth from the spatial center of the universe, and placing the Earth in revolution around a star. Then, stage two (in biology) was displacing humans from un-relatedness to other evolving life on Earth. And now, another scientific revolution (in astrobiology and cosmic biology) is displacing the Earth again. Now Earth is no longer conceived to be the biological center of the universe.10
The idea that all life originated in some »warm little pond« (Darwin to Joseph Hooker in 1871) on planet Earth is being replaced with the idea of a vastly larger pond: our Milky Way galaxy (with our solar system embedded in a spiral arm revolving around a galactic center). Moreover, the Milky Way is one among many billions of galactic ponds. Contrary to the astronomically improbable belief that microbial life originated exclusively in our little pond; Fred Hoyle advanced the vastly more probable idea that microbial life as such »did not begin on the Earth« (1980: 21), that »life is not confined to a particular galaxy,« and that »Life can spread itself through the Universe« (1980: 23). Rather than being restricted to Earth, life is »a cosmic phenomenon« (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe 7 August 1986).
2.2 B2FH and Stellar Evolution
Historically, the revolutionary practice of connecting evolutionary biology to astronomy and cosmology was greatly advanced when Fred Hoyle and others produced evidence indicating the heavy elements (elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, including especially carbon) were synthesized from hydrogen in stars (Hoyle 1946; Hoyle 1947; B2FH 1957).11
B2FH is »known to all astronomers« (Martin Rees 1997: 16) as referring to the last name initials of the four authors of »Synthesis of the Elements in Stars« (1957): E. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyle. The work signified by B2FH is so widely known because it was »a turning point in our knowledge of how the universe works« (Neil de Grasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith 2004: 165).
This revolutionary turning point connected biology to stellar evolution. We are made of heavy elements synthesized in previous generations of stars. We are evolved stardust.
Though Fred Hoyle and others did science and mathematics showing that we are stardust; many of us first learned to conceive of ourselves as stardust from musician-poets Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singing: »We are stardust. We are golden. We are ten billion year old carbon. And we got to get ourselves back to the garden« (1969 at Woodstock). Since then (Hoyle 1946; Hoyle 1947; B2FH 1957; Woodstock 1969), evolutionary astrobiology (along with advancing theories of »cosmic evolution« and »cosmic biology«) has been displacing the idea that biology is exclusively Earth science.12
2.3 Panspermia, Astrobiology, and Cosmic Biology
Turning—from Earth-only biology to astrobiology and cosmic biology—was indicated in Fred Hoyle's The Relation of Biology to Astronomy (1980). Here, drawing upon work with Chandra Wickramasinghe, Hoyle argued that interstellar clouds include granular particles of bacteria. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe advanced a theory of water, organic materials, and microbial life being circulated by comets called »cometary panspermia« (1981a; 1982; 1983; 1 December 1984). And they advanced »the Case for Life as a Cosmic Phenomenon« (7 August 1986 [also Wickramasinghe and Tokoro January 2014; Wickramasinghe, K. Wickramasinghe, and Tokoro 2019]).
Hoyle predicted that the idea of interstellar and cosmic microbiological processes will become obvious to future generations. Hoyle said:
I suspect that the cosmic quality of microbiology will seem as obvious to future generations as the Sun being the centre of our solar system seems obvious to the present generation.
(Hoyle 1980: 24-25)
Hoyle's 1980 prediction is coming true. The cosmic quality of microbiology is becoming more and more obvious. And the once »maverick science of astrobiology« (Darling 2001) is now becoming less and less maverick.13
The previous scientific revolution (in astronomy and biology) displaced Earth from the spatial center of the universe (Copernicus 1543) and displaced humans from un-relatedness to other evolving life on Earth (Darwin 1859). The current scientific revolution (in astrobiology and cosmic biology) is displacing Earth from the biological center of the universe, and theory of evolution on Earth is displaced from un-relatedness to stellar, galactic, and cosmic evolution (B2FH 1957). Furthermore, this Copernicus-like revolution is producing a cosmic biology (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe 1979; 1980; 1981a; 1982; 8 September 1983; 1 December 1983; 1984; 7 August 1986) that is consistent with natural theology (Hoyle 1984 [c1983]; Hoyle and Wickramasinghe 1981b; 1988).
2.4 Consistent with Natural Theology
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe argue that precisely tuned life-favoring cosmic circumstances are required to make life possible. The »coupling constants« of physics must be chosen with enormous precision (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe 1981b: 141-43; also Hoyle 1984 [c1983]: 218-19). Creating and sustaining such enormously precise cosmic circumstances (today called »cosmic fine tuning«) requires deliberate acts of a »super intelligence,« an interacting and »all-embracing intelligence« (Hoyle 1984 [c1983]: 215). The numerical calculations put the need for cosmic intelligence—exercising cosmic influences—beyond question.
A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me to be so overwhelming as to put this conclusion beyond question.
(Hoyle 1981b:12)
Furthermore, given the extreme complexity of even the smallest living microbe, mathematical calculations witness against the still prevailing theory of life emerging from non-life by random/chance assembly.
The chance that life forms might have emerged in this way [by way of random assembly, T.W.] is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from material therein.
(Hoyle 1981a: 105)
A commonsense interpretation of the facts forced Hoyle to conclude (against his previous atheism) that a cosmic intelligence must be exerting cosmic influences favoring the evolution of life. This implicitly pro-theological conclusion is rendered explicit in chapter 9 »Convergence to God« in Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationism (1981b) by Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe.14
This revolutionary practice—of connecting evolutionary biology to creationist cosmology and natural theology—was anticipated and advanced by natural philosophers thinking deeply about science and biology. For instance, in Science and the Modern World (1925) Alfred North Whitehead conceived that science was becoming »the study of organisms« (103), with physicists studying the smaller organisms, and biologists studying the larger organisms. And, with emphasis upon universal creativity, Whitehead connected his biology-oriented »philosophy of organism« to cosmology and theology in Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1927-28). Similarly, biology was connected to ontology, evolutionary cosmology, and natural theology in Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature (1975 [c1937]) by Charles Hartshorne. Here Hartshorne held that »the structure of reality« is »one of organisms within organisms« (91), that »the philosophical argument for cosmic evolutionism stands on its own feet« (140; italics added), and we are »cells in the body of God« (197).
Revolutionary advances in astrobiology and cosmic biology are catching up to philosophical anticipations, and connecting agreeably with »a quiet revolution« in theology identified in M. W. Brierley's »Naming a Quiet Revolution: The Panentheistic Turn in Modern Theology« (2004). At »the panentheistic turn,« theology converges with cosmic biology,15 and with ethics.
2.5 Panentheism and Ethical Realism
Panentheism helps with discerning that the biblical imperatives—to love our neighbors and our enemies as we love ourselves (Matthew 5:43-48; 22:34-40)—are imperatives founded upon realism, not mere idealism. Every experience confirms (by exemplifying) what no experience can deny: we really are partly inclusive parts among variously inclusive parts of reality. And logical/mereological analysis shows that all parts of reality are parts of the whole of reality, parts of »the one all-inclusive [divine, T.W.] whole of realty« (Ogden 1984: 21; also Hartshorne 1973 [1967]). Hence, conformity to reality (living righteously, not missing the mark [not sinning]) requires valuing neighbors, enemies, and selves as they/we really are: as parts among parts of the divine whole. This ethical realism is justified by panentheism.
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This deliberation is a significant reworking of »Advancing and Challenging Classical Theism with Biology and Bioethics: Astrobiology and Cosmic Biology consistent with Theology,« a 10 August 2017 paper presented at the Templeton Foundation funded international conference on Analytic Theology and the Nature of God: Advancing and Challenging Classical Theism (7-12 August 2017) at Hochschule für Philosophie München [Munich School of Philosophy] at Fürstenried Palace, Exerzitienhaus Schloss Fürstenried, in Munich, DE—Germany. Conference speakers included: John Bishop, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Joseph Bracken SJ, Xavier University Cincinnati; Godehard Brüntrup SJ, Munich School of Philosophy; Anna Case-Winters, McCormick Theological Seminary; Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology; Benedikt Göcke, Ruhr University Bochum; Johnathan D. Jacobs, St. Louis University; John Leslie, University of Guelph; Gesche Linde, University of Rostock; Klaus Müller, University of Münster; Ken Perszyk, University of Waikato; Andrew Pinsent, Oxford University; Thomas Schärtl-Trendel, University of Regensburg; Johannes Stoffers SJ, Munich School of Philosophy; Giovanni Ventimiglia, University of Lucerne; Theodore Walker Jr., Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University; coordinated by Prof. Dr. Godehard Brüntrup SJ and Dr. Tobias Müller; with Niklas Ernst, Fredrich Sieben, and others.
We should study biology, including »general biology« (Just, April 1940) and »Theoretische Biologie« [theoretical biology] (Uexküll 1926; and 1934). Also, interdisciplinary convergences with biology in the research university are treated in Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century (2015) by Harvey J. Graff. And see »Biology, social science, and history: interdisciplinarity in three directions« (2016) by Chris Renwick.
Following Just's pioneering lead, in biology, studying the »cell surface« became vitally important (Dover 1954, Grinnell 1975). And concerning Just's pioneering contributions to environmental and ecological development biology, systems biology, and embryo morphogenesis, see: »Law of Environmental Dependence« (Just and Just 1941: 168, 157-165); »Ernest Everett Just, PhD: Pioneer in Ecological Development (Eco-Dev) Biology« (July 2013) by Katelyn M. Williams, Bryan A. Wilson, Wendi G. O'Connor, and Monte S. Willis in Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science, 11 (1): article 5; and see »Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941)—An early ecological developmental biologist« (1 August 2006) by W. Malcolm Byrnes and William R. Eckberg in Developmental Biology, 296 (1): 1-11. In »Ernest Everett Just: Experimental Biologist Par Excellence« (February 2010) W. Malcolm Byrnes describes ecological developmental biology as focusing »on development in its natural environmental context,« and he emphasizes Just's challenge to established views, a challenge that has »much in common with what is known today as integrative systems biology, in which a top-down view is just as important as a [established-reductionist] bottom-up view for understanding the system« (Byrnes February 2010). Just's early advocacy of a non-reductionist/holistic approach is appreciated in »Just and Unjust: E. E. Just (1883-1941)« (August 2008) by James F. Crow in Genetics, 179: 1735-1740. Also, in embryo morphogenesis, Just strongly influenced essential concepts (concepts usually attributed to Holtfreter) according to »Ernest Everett Just, Johannes Holtfreter, and the Origin of Certain Concepts in Embryo Morphogenesis« (2009) by W. Malcolm Byrnes in Molecular Reproduction & Development, 76: 912-921.
According to H. Tristram Englehardt Jr. of the Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, the term »bioethics« now serves »to identify the disciplined analysis of the moral and conceptual assumptions of medicine, the biomedical sciences, and the allied health professions« (Englehardt's foreword to Potter's 1988 book: p. x). In contrast to such medical definitions of bioethics, Englehardt observes that, as used by Potter in 1971, the term »bioethics« had a more general meaning. Similarly, »bioethics« had a more general meaning in »Bioethics: A Review of the Ethical Relationships of Humans to Animals and Plants« (1927) by Fritz Jahr (Hans-Martin Sass 2007).
Biology-based analogy can also serve ethics. For instance, the egg cell's »wave of negativity« repulsing all but one spermatozoon (described by E. E. Just) can serve as an appropriate analogue for marital fidelity (coffee platform conversation with Andrew Pinsent on 10 August 2017 and lunch conversation with Joseph Bracken on 11 August 2017 at international conference on Analytic Theology and the Nature of God).
Concerning Hartshorne's panentheism: In the Preface to the 1975 reprint of his 1937 book Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature (1975 [c1937]) Charles Hartshorne offers two important »retractions« from his 1937 terminology. He retracts labeling his »neoclassical« metaphysics and theology with the classical term »pantheism« [pan-theism] in favor of labeling it »my panentheism« [pan-en-theism] (italics added); and he retracts labeling it »naturalism« (which implies contingent existence and contingent actuality, instead of necessary existence and contingent actuality) in favor of labeling it »supernaturalism« (1975 [c1937]: viii-ix). As indicated in this Preface, after 1937, Hartshorne's consistent typological label—for his (and Whitehead's) organic cosmology and theology—became »panentheism.«
»The Origin of Man's Ethical Behavior« (October 1941, unpublished manuscript) was previously called »Ethics and the Struggle for Existence« in a 15 April 1941 letter from Just to J. W. Buchanan (Kenneth R. Manning 1984: 327, 385 note 12); and referenced as »some 400 typed pages« (including annotated bibliography) in a 15 October 1940 letter from Just to W. C. Allee; and referenced as »a forthcoming essay« in Just's 1939 book—The Biology of the Cell Surface (1939a: 367). Handwritten drafts »are preserved in the Howard collection [of E. E. Just papers at the Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center]: EEJ(H), box 125-21, folder 396« (Manning 1984: 385 note 12). Also, adding recently (25 May 2018) discovered, by Theodore Walker Jr. and Lillie R. Jenkins, typed pages (from box 125-9, folder 162; and from box 125-19, folder 382 [mostly from folder 382]) yields 251 pages, now transcribed and edited by T. Walker, L. R. Jenkins, and W. Malcolm Byrnes, in consultation with Stuart Newman, and now called »The Biological Origins and Evolution of Ethical Behavior: From Cells to Humans« (2019 [1941]).
Evolution and ethics were related in The Descent of Man, and Section in Relation to Sex (1871) by Charles Darwin, in Evolution and Ethics (1894) by Thomas Huxley, in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) by Peter Kropotkin, and in Ethics: Origin and Development (1924) by Peter Kropotkin. Recent efforts include: Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspectives (2004) edited by Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, and Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution (2008) edited by John B. Cobb Jr. Also, see »A Sociobiological Expansion of Evolution and Ethics« (1989) by George C. Williams, the preface to the 1989 Princeton edition of Huxley's Evolution and Ethics (1894).
Biology has been extended beyond planet Earth via theories of stellar evolution, cometary panspermia, and finely tuned cosmic evolution (Hoyle, Wickramasinghe). Psychology has been extended to ultimate extremes (all the way down to observing quantum decisions and nonlocal entanglements, and all the way up to cosmic relations) via quantum physics at the down end and quantum cosmology at the up end. The call for a new »science of consciousness«—advocated in Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (1994) by Roger Penrose—nourished the emergence of quantum cosmology, such as found in a collection of essays in Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain and Mind (2011) edited by Sir Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, and Subhash Kak.
Here the term »natural theology« indicates logical study of logos about theos within university research compliant »natural philosophy« or »philosophy of nature«—recently called »science«—and featuring six characteristic commitments distinguished by Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen: commitment to (1) »realism,« (2) »participatory ontology« such that study of creatures and creations can reveal something about the Creator, (3) a positive view of reason, (4) formulating logical arguments or proofs, (5), valuing rational factual evidence, and (6) the conviction that natural theology has a »positive value for religious life« (Kojonen Summer 2017: 4-5 in online preprint). For the sake of moral theory within natural philosophy (natural law/natural ethics), commitment to realism, especially ethical realism, is essential.
With regard to displacing humans from the biological center; in Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature (1975 [c1937]) Charles Hartshorne says, »the notion that man is the center of the universe« is »not yet completely shattered by astronomy, since we still do not know that we are not the highest of the creatures; but it certainly has no positive support from reason—to say the least,« and Hartshorne conceives of the possibility of creatures »more intelligent or more richly sensitive than we« (1975 [c1937]: 88). Hartshorne also conceived of »intermediate individualities« possibly »interposed between« the universal individual (God) and human individuals (1975 [c1937]: 310). In other words: individuals less inclusive than God, and more inclusive than humans. A similar idea was expressed in Fred Hoyle's sci-fi novel The Black Cloud (1957) about an interstellar cloud of organic molecules endowed with a metabolism and intelligence.
See »The Synthesis of the Elements from Hydrogen« (1946) and »On the Formation of Heavy Elements in Stars« (1947) by Fred Hoyle; and see »Synthesis of the Elements in Stars« (1957) by E. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyle /B2FH.
Concerning »cosmic evolution« and »cosmic biology,« see: Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (2004) by Neil de Grasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith; »Imperatives of Cosmic Biology« (2 March 2010) by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Carl H. Gibson; Cosmic Biology: How Life Could Evolve on Other Worlds (c2011) by Louis N. Irwin and Dirk Schulze-Makuch; and Vindication of Cosmic Biology: Tribute to Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) (2015) edited by Chandra Wickramasinghe. Concerning relations between astronomy and biology: In 1937 in Beyond Humanism: Essays in the Philosophy of Nature (1975 [c1937]) Charles Hartshorne was saying »astronomy is not as yet of much help in determining the prevalence in space-time of conditions favoring animal organism« (58). Since then, especially since B2FH (1957), astronomers have learned to be of much help to biology; and in so doing, they created the new convergent disciplines of astrobiology and cosmic biology.
In Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology (2001) David Darling says, with regard to panspermia theories advanced by Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, »Today … panspermia is at least tolerated« and »the idea of microbes being able to hop from world to world has very much entered the scientific mainstream« (47). Also, see The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology (2005 [c2004]) by Steven J. Dick (chief NASA historian) and James E. Strick. Also see: (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe 30 March 1979), (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe 6 November 1979), and (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe 1981; 1982; September 1983; December 1983; 1984).
Concerning God, biology, evolution, creation, and cosmic creationism: See »Hoyle on Evolution« (12 November 1981) by Fred Hoyle in Nature; chapter 1—»Chance and the Universe«—in The Intelligent Universe: A New View of Creation and Evolution (1984 [c1983]) by Fred Hoyle; and chapter 10—»The Concept of a Creator«—in Cosmic Life-Force (1990) by Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe. And, from among theologians at the Perkins School of Theology, see Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation (1998) by Karen Baker-Fletcher, and The Big Bang and God: An Astro-Theology … (2015) by Theodore Walker Jr. and Chandra Wickramasinghe [where »Astro-Theology« indicates a constructive postmodern revision of early modern Astro-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens (1715) by William Derham]; and note that in a chapter titled »It's Only Natural« Craig C. Hill [a New Testament scholar attentive to biology] says, »… perhaps our biology is meant to drive us to God« (Hill 2016: 21).
Concerning panentheism and evolution, see: A Natural Theology for Our Time (1967) by Charles Hartshorne; Analytic Theism, Hartshorne, and the Concept of God (1996) and Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, from Force to Persuasion (January 2017) by Daniel A. Dombrowski; »Panentheism: A Field-Oriented Approach« (2004) and »Actual Entities and Societies, Gene Mutations and Cell Development: Implications for a New World View« (Spring/Sumer 2013) by Joseph Bracken; »Evolution and Process Thought« (2008) by Ian G. Barbour; »Organisms as Agents in Evolution« (2008) by John B. Cobb Jr.; »Whitehead's Naturalism and a Non-Darwinian View of Evolution« (2008) by David Ray Griffin; »A Process Cosmology« (September 2012) by Lewis S. Ford; »polyamorous panentheism« (77-81; 207) in Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility (2017) by Catherine Keller; and Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms (2017) edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
Panentheism and Panpsychism
Philosophy of Religion Meets Philosophy of Mind
Innsbruck Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume: 2
Part IPanentheism and Panpsychism in Philosophy
Panpsychism and Panentheism
Deploying Panpsychism for the Demarcation of Panentheism
God as World-Mind: Some Theological Implications of Panpsychism
Universal Consciousness as the Ground of Logic
Naïve Panentheism
What a Feeling? In Search of a Metaphysical Connection between Panpsychism and Panentheism
Part IIPanentheism and Panpsychism in Theology
God or Space and Nature? Henry More's Panentheism of Space and Panpsychism of Life and Nature
Varieties of Panpsychism
Orthodox Panentheism: Sergius Bulgakov's Sophiology
Panentheism and Panexperientialism for Open and Relational Theology
A Panpsychist Panentheistic Incarnational Model of the Eucharist
Panentheistic Cosmopsychism: Swami Vivekananda's Sāṃkhya-Vedāntic Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness
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The McLEOD group (Modelling and Control of Complex systems in Large Environments requiring Optimized Decision) relates to the modelling, running and observing of complex systems. These issues are mainly addressed by two scientific communities: the "computer" community which deals with modelling and high-level decision-making; the "automation" community which works on the control and application of low-level setpoints while offering tools for the observation of dynamic systems. Here we propose a convergence of their points of view and approaches by considering complex systems in the form of intelligent entities (agents), potentially in interaction and whose behaviours follow the life cycle: perception & modelling -> decision -> action; in other words, a closed loop control.
McLEOD research
While the"modelling", "decision" and "action" steps are at the heart of the group's research, the "perception" part will form the basis of collaborations with other CERI SN groups. They may involve teacher-researchers specialising in data vision and processing and the group's automation engineers (particularly through the notion of observation).
At the "decision" level
The group's work developed at "decision" level will be clearly positioned in artificial intelligence. In particular, they make scientific contributions in three sub-fields of AI:
optimisation under constraints with the development of algorithms for solving COP (Constraint Optimisation Problems) / DCOP (Distributed COP) type problems;
decision-making under uncertainties based on the use of stochastic models and reasoning such as Markovian models (MDP, DEC-MDP, etc.);
modelling of complex systems in the form of multi-agent systems for decision and/or simulation purposes;
distributed and decentralised decision-making via coordination mechanisms between agents making it possible to converge towards a collective decision.
At the "action" level
The work developed at the "action" level will result from automation and will focus more particularly on:
the control/running of complex and large-scale systems, presenting non-linearities, variable delays, and hybrid dynamics;
coordination of actions in real time taking into account unforeseen changes in the environment;
systems modelling (model reduction in order to keep an exploitable tool despite the complexity and the a priori dimension of the system, data-driven modelling for systems for which a "white box" type knowledge model is unattainable, etc.);
observation of systems (in the sense of automation) allowing the optimisation of the use of sensors (in numbers, in location, in a "scrutiny" body, etc.);
the stability of the control laws of the systems studied.
At the crossroads of automation and AI
The work developed at the crossroads of automation and AI could lead to the exploration of original issues such as:
the implementation of a hybrid control architecture allowing decision and control models on different time scales with a functional level (rapid and safe response) supervised by a deciding level;
supervision of switching systems: adapting setpoints to the constraints of physical systems and integrating switching possibilities in deliberative models;
or the use of optimisation methods for optimal sampling of network systems.

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Q: tkinter scale with a warning zone color I would like to custom the ttk.Scale to be like this picture

If the scale range is from 0 to 100, I would like to define a start warning zone like from 0 to 5, and an ending warning zone from 90 to 100. Those warning zones could be in orange, and the other zone in green. The main goal of this is to help users when they change the scale value. Because if the value is between 0 and 5 or 90 and 100 the system controlled by this scale may over heat.
I could find thread to custom the cursor (How to set tkinter scale slider's color?), but nothing about this.
Best regards
JM

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The hospital drew wide media coverage in recent months after Internet users claiming to have received the treatment wrote in blogs and forums about being tied down and subjected to shocks for 30 minutes at a time.
A statement on the Chinese health ministry's Web site said the practice had no medical foundation and forbid its clinical use. The order banned the practice nationwide but specifically mentioned the notorious hospital in eastern Shandong province.
Calls to the Shandong hospital went unanswered Wednesday morning, but a hospital spokeswoman last week said "sensationalized" media reports had already led it to cease the shock treatment. The shocks were meant to cause subjects to associate a negative result with Internet use, according to the hospital. Subjects were forced to admit to faults while receiving the shocks, some Internet user accounts said.
Government-funded treatment centers for Internet addiction have sprouted up around China in recent years, though the health ministry has not officially labeled it a diagnosable condition. Many children are tricked by parents into going to the centers, which often deliver a mix of military boot camp and therapy sessions.
Staff at the treatment centers blame hugely popular online games like World of Warcraft for getting most Chinese teens hooked on the Web.
Some Chinese medical experts still believe shock treatment for Internet addiction does not harm children, but the majority disavow it, said Tao Ran, the founder of a Beijing treatment center Web-addicted teens, during a recent interview. Experts meeting at the health ministry last month signed a document recommending its ban, he said.
Internet users celebrated the move in chat forums.
"This news should truly make people happy," one user wrote in a forum run by local search engine Baidu. "After all, this kind of thing is inhuman cruelty."


TubeMuseum, eBay trading name, tubemuseumusa. This tube seller is one of the worst I have seen. The company's adds are all dresses up with bullsh!t to describe mostly rubbish. Some years ago they where caught out taking standard low performance tubes, then dipping the pins in gold to resell them as high performance gold pin valves. There is an example of there bull sh!t. These siemens tubes are worth about $200-$400. Someone paid US $1,498.00 for this junk. Mint Genuine in box Telefunken ECC802S go for about US$650. They seem to pray on peoples ignorance to sell there hyped up sh!t. Keep a million miles away from this mob.
Add them to the list of do not buy through, they walk away from dud valves despite saying they are matched.


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Dr. Damien Lightfoot received his Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide (Australia) in 2007. Following this, he commenced his Postdoctoral studies on plant stress tolerance before moving to KAUST in August of 2014. At KAUST, he worked as a Research Scientist in BESE under Prof. Mark Tester and continued his research on plant abiotic stress tolerance, while developing an interest in bioinformatics and genomics. These interests led him to a second Research Scientist position, with Prof. Tim Ravasi, using bioinformatics approaches to investigate the responses of coral reef fishes to future climate change conditions. In January of 2018, Damien shifted away from research and took on a role in Postdoc and Researcher support under Dr. Virginia Unkefer, within the office of the Senior Vice President for Research. In this role, Damien is working to coordinate professional development opportunities for Postdocs and Researchers while also liaising with faculty, human resources, and administration on matters related to KAUST researchers. Additionally, he is working on reviewing and improving policy and procedures related to current and future researchers at KAUST.


New London-Paris Super Train. Top Speed of 320km/h.
A Siemens-Thales joint venture awarded a €208.7m contract with ADIF to supply the ERTMS for the for a rail line in southern Spain.
Is Public Transport really cost-effective? A Siemens study.


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Stage-and-Screen Legend Cicely Tyson to Receive Honorary Oscar
by Andy Lefkowitz • Sep 6, 2018
Tony-winning star Cicely Tyson has been named the recipient of another esteemed honor. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will bestow the actress with an Honorary Oscar for her impressive screen career on November 18 at the 10th Annual Governors Awards. The ceremony will be held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood.
Throughout her career, Tyson has amassed 91 screen credits, earning Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Sounder (1972) and Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994).
Onstage, Tyson won the Tony Award for her leading turn as Mrs. Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful (2013). Her other Broadway credits include The Gin Game (2015), The Corn Is Green (1983), Trumpets of the Lord (1969), Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights (1968), A Hand Is on the Gate (1966), Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright (1962), The Cool World (1960) and Jolly's Progress (1959).
In addition to Tyson, recipients of 2018 Honorary Oscars include film publicist Marvin Levy, composer Lalo Schifrin and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.


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