Marcelo Gleiser
Contributor at Big Think
Physicist, essayist, curator of the unknown, author of Great Minds Don't Think Alike, endurance trail runner, lover of mountains.
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2 weeks ago |
nok6a.net | Marcelo Gleiser
تطرح تطورات التكنلوجيا الجديدة مثل الأسلحة النووية، والهندسة الوراثية باستخدام كريسبر، والذكاء الاصطناعي تحديات ومسؤوليات أخلاقية كبيرة. في حين أنه من المنطقي أن نشعر بالقلق إزاء التهديدات والمعضلات التكنولوجية، إلا أن الكثيرين يتفاعلون بإلقاء اللوم على العلماء أو العلم نفسه، دون إدراك الفرق بين هؤلاء وبين من يتحكمون في تطبيق الاكتشافات العلمية.
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1 month ago |
bigthink.com | Marcelo Gleiser
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people For centuries, we’ve generally defined intelligence as the ability to solve problems quickly. But is that definition too narrow? What if intelligence isn’t just about thinking fast, but about how well something, whether a person, a plant, or even a planet, connects, adapts, and thrives in its environment?
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Jan 22, 2025 |
resilience.org | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
This adapted excerpt is from The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson (2025, MIT Press). It is reproduced with permission from MIT Press. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
counterpunch.org | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
slguardian.org | Adam Thompson |Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
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