Freedom and Evolution

Freedom and Evolution
Author: Adrian Bejan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030340090

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The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systems are driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our “engines” that consume fuel and food, and that our movement dissipates the power completely and changes constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life. Written for wide audiences of all ages, including readers interested in science, patterns in nature, similarity and non-uniformity, history and the future, and those just interested in having fun with ideas, the book shows how many “design change” concepts acquire a solid scientific footing and how they exist with the evolution of nature, society, technology and science.

Diversity, Freedom and Evolution

Diversity, Freedom and Evolution
Author: William Magnusson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2019-03-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1527531872

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Science is responsible for most of the miracles that define modern life. This leads to the disconcerting situation where need and belief are in conflict. There is an enormous literature about science and evolution in particular, but all previous authors have missed the point that evolution gives us basic tenets that are not situation- or culture-dependent. This book shows that the potential for evolution is based on the tenets of diversity and freedom, which also underlie most of the ethical and moral values that people cherish, whatever their beliefs. Those values can apply to everything that has evolved or will evolve, whether they are humans, other organisms, machines or memes. There is potential for all people who believe in the power of evolution, whether they link that to other spiritual beliefs or not, to unite in a congregation of evolutionists. This will not only help reduce present-day conflicts; it will also be important in the future when we have to face other challenges, such as machine self-awareness. Evolution has made humans not only self-aware, but aware of the universe. As they are a part of the universe, that means that the universe is self-aware in the same sense as any other entity is self-aware, and this gives enormous potential to change the future that mainline physicists tell us will be dark and dead.

The Physics of Life

The Physics of Life
Author: Adrian Bejan
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1250078822

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An empowering new view of the nature of physics and the constant evolution of our physical and social world

Freedom Evolves

Freedom Evolves
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2004-01-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1101572663

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Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers “yes!” Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments—drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy—that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.

Greater Freedom

Greater Freedom
Author: Charles Wesley McKinney
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0761852301

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This book offers a groundbreaking long-term study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation.

Design in Nature

Design in Nature
Author: Adrian Bejan
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307744345

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In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.

Tracking Freedom

Tracking Freedom
Author: Ken Eagle Feather
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1998
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781571740939

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Metaphysical philosophies can expand awareness and evolve perception, but sometimes these avenues to greater consciousness actually limit awareness, as people are tempted to mistake the map for the territory. Aimed at those who wish to get the most out of their personal path, this text builds upon the teachings of Toltec seer don Juan Matus to demonstrate how metaphysical systems affect perception.

Liberty and Learning

Liberty and Learning
Author: Larry P. Arnn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780916308001

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History of how the educational system has changed. From the beginning of this country till now. Arguments for liberal education and limited government.

The Four Freedoms

The Four Freedoms
Author: Jeffrey A. Engel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199376212

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In his 1941 State of the Union address, President Franklin Roosevelt framed America's role in World War II, and ultimately its role in forging the post-war world to come, as a fight for freedom. Four freedoms, to be exact: freedom of speech, freedom from want, freedom of religion, and freedom from fear. In this new look at one of the most influential presidential addresses ever delivered, historian Jeffrey A. Engel joins together with six other leading scholars to explore how each of Roosevelt's freedoms evolved over time, for Americans and for the wider world.

Radical Evolution

Radical Evolution
Author: Joel Garreau
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2006-05-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0767915038

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Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information, and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny–and perhaps our very souls. Radical Evolution reveals that the powers of our comic-book superheroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country–from the revved-up reflexes and speed of Spider-Man and Superman, to the enhanced mental acuity and memory capabilities of an advanced species. Over the next fifteen years, Garreau makes clear in this New York Times Book Club premiere selection, these enhancements will become part of our everyday lives. Where will they lead us? To heaven–where technology’s promise to make us smarter, vanquish illness, and extend our lives is the answer to our prayers? Or, as some argue, to hell–where unrestrained technology brings about the ultimate destruction of our species?