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Darwin's aliens
- Samuel R. Levin, Thomas W. Scott, Helen S. Cooper, Stuart A. West
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- International Journal of Astrobiology / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / February 2019
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- 01 November 2017, pp. 1-9
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Making predictions about aliens is not an easy task. Most previous work has focused on extrapolating from empirical observations and mechanistic understanding of physics, chemistry and biology. Another approach is to utilize theory to make predictions that are not tied to details of Earth. Here we show how evolutionary theory can be used to make predictions about aliens. We argue that aliens will undergo natural selection – something that should not be taken for granted but that rests on firm theoretical grounds. Given aliens undergo natural selection we can say something about their evolution. In particular, we can say something about how complexity will arise in space. Complexity has increased on the Earth as a result of a handful of events, known as the major transitions in individuality. Major transitions occur when groups of individuals come together to form a new higher level of the individual, such as when single-celled organisms evolved into multicellular organisms. Both theory and empirical data suggest that extreme conditions are required for major transitions to occur. We suggest that major transitions are likely to be the route to complexity on other planets, and that we should expect them to have been favoured by similarly restrictive conditions. Thus, we can make specific predictions about the biological makeup of complex aliens.
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- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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- 05 August 2015
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- 27 April 2015, pp ix-xxx
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- By Jeremy Ackerman, Polly Bijur, Hans Bradshaw, Ciaran J. Browne, John H. Burton, Lisa Calder, David Cline, Rita K. Cydulka, Deborah B. Diercks, James Ducharme, Megan L. Fix, Michel Galinski, Ula Hwang, Jonathan S. Ilgen, Andy Jagoda, Samuel Kim, Robert Knopp, Jason B. Lester, Adam Levine, Todd M. Listwa, Frank LoVecchio, Sharon E. Mace, Alan P. Marco, Catherine A. Marco, Chris McEachin, James R. Miner, Kalani Olmsted, Sohan Parekh, Peter Rosen, Michael S. Runyon, Michael T. Schultz, Adam J. Singer, Robert A. Swor, Joshua H. Tamayo-Sarver, Stephen H. Thomas, Michael Turturro, Michael Walta, Benjamin A. White, Beth Wicklund, Susan R. Wilcox, Nathanael Wood, Dale P. Woolridge, Andrew Worster, Janet Simmons Young, Kelly Young
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- Emergency Department Analgesia
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- 18 December 2009
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- By Claude Alain, Amy F. T. Arnsten, Lars Bäckman, Malcolm A. Binns, Sandra E. Black, S. Thomas Carmichael, Keith D. Cicerone, Maurizio Corbetta, Bruce Crosson, Jeffrey L. Cummings, Deirdre R. Dawson, Michael deRiesthal, Roger A. Dixon, Laura Eggermont, Kirk I. Erickson, Anthony Feinstein, Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Fu Qiang Gao, Douglas D. Garrett, Omar Ghaffar, Robbin Gibb, Elizabeth L. Glisky, Martha L. Glisky, Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, Cheryl L. Grady, Carol Greenwood, Gerri Hanten, Richard G. Hunter, Masud Husain, Narinder Kapur, Bryan Kolb, Arthur F. Kramer, Susan A. Leon, Harvey S. Levin, Brian Levine, Nadina Lincoln, Thomas W. McAllister, Edward McAuley, Bruce S. McEwen, David M. Morris, Stephen E. Nadeau, Roshan das Nair, Matthew Parrott, Jennie Ponsford, George P. Prigatano, Joel Ramirez, John M. Ringman, Ian H. Robertson, Amy D. Rodriguez, John C. Rosenbek, Bernhard Ross, Erik Scherder, Victoria Singh-Curry, Trudi Stickland, Donald T. Stuss, Edward Taub, Gary R. Turner, Harry V. Vinters, Samuel Weiss, John Whyte, Barbara A. Wilson, Gordon Winocur, J. Martin Wojtowicz
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- Cognitive Neurorehabilitation
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- 11 September 2008, pp ix-xiv
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7 - Language, concepts, and worlds: Three domains of metaphor
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- By Samuel R. Levin, City University of New York
- Edited by Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University, Illinois
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- Metaphor and Thought
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- 05 June 2012
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According to Searle (this volume), metaphors represent a class of linguistic expression that says one thing and means another. In this respect, he points out, they resemble cases of irony and indirect speech acts. A characteristic of all such types of linguistic expressions is that the literal utterance – what in fact is said – is in some sense “defective,” taking the form of “obvious falsehood, semantic nonsense, violation of the rules of speech acts, or violations of conversational principles of communication.” The problem posed by such expressions is therefore to determine where, if not in the utterance itself, one should look to ascertain what they in fact mean. In this connection, Searle has introduced the distinction between (literal) sentence meaning and (speaker's) utterance meaning, and he has suggested that one should look to the latter for true meaning. In other words, the sentence may say one thing, but the speaker may intend (by it) something else, and the meaning to be inferred from the sentence must be attributed to and read off that intention. In saying, for example, “Sally is a block of ice,” the speaker may intend to convey that Sally is a cold and unresponsive person, and the hearer, to properly interpret that utterance, must read off that intended meaning.
There is much in Searle's account that is extremely beneficial to the study of metaphor, and if I differ from his views it is not so much that I disagree with his conclusions as that I envisage in my approach a different role to be played by metaphor.
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- Harrison T. Meserole, Paul A. Brown, Richard B. Gidez, Samuel R. Levin, Margaret Loftus Ranald, Charles W. Mann
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- PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America / Volume 77 / Issue 2 / May 1962
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