Afterword The Arts of Empathy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashraf H.A. Rushdy
Keyword(s):  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Global Consciousness ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Frans De Waal

This Afterword argues that the moral practices of resentment, apology, and forgiveness all have particular meaning for what has been called, by both primatologist Frans de Waal and economist Jeremy Rifkin, the contemporary “age of empathy.” De Waal focuses on biological evolution to show how our empathy is producing a “kinder society,” Rifkin examines social evolutions in the harnessing of energy and the production of communication patterns tied to those energy regimes to show how moments in our past may help us see that our trajectory is inexorably leading us to a “global consciousness.” Empathy is in our nature and in our history, and a product of our nature and our history—and, in either case, an aspect of who we are as individuals and what we are as a society or world.

Evolution of the arts

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Steven Brown
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Species Specific

This chapter examines both the biological and cultural evolution of the arts. Biological evolution of the arts deals with how humans evolved the species-specific capacities to create and appreciate artworks, while cultural evolution is about how artworks themselves, as cultural products, undergo changes in persistence over historical time and geographic location. The study of biological evolution includes both phylogenetic (or historical) and adaptationist (or Darwinian) approaches. The study of cultural evolution of the arts reveals the importance of a ‘creativity/aesthetics cycle’ in which the products of human creativity get appraised for their level of appeal by the aesthetic system, allowing them to either be transmitted to future generations or die out. This unification of creativity and aesthetics has far-reaching implications for both fields of study.

The Tempo and mode(S) of Prebiotic Evolution

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 419-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Lazcano
Keyword(s):  
Origin Of Life ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Early Diversification ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
The Origin Of Life

AbstractDifferent current ideas on the origin of life are critically examined. Comparison of the now fashionable FeS/H2S pyrite-based autotrophic theory of the origin of life with the heterotrophic viewpoint suggest that the later is still the most fertile explanation for the emergence of life. However, the theory of chemical evolution and heterotrophic origins of life requires major updating, which should include the abandonment of the idea that the appearance of life was a slow process involving billions of years. Stability of organic compounds and the genetics of bacteria suggest that the origin and early diversification of life took place in a time period of the order of 10 million years. Current evidence suggest that the abiotic synthesis of organic compounds may be a widespread phenomenon in the Galaxy and may have a deterministic nature. However, the history of the biosphere does not exhibits any obvious trend towards greater complexity or «higher» forms of life. Therefore, the role of contingency in biological evolution should not be understimated in the discussions of the possibilities of life in the Universe.

Electron Microscopy in Molecular Biology

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Cecil E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Shadow Casting ◽  
Electron Image ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Very High

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.

Fragebogen zur Erfassung partnerschaftlicher Kommunikationsmuster (FPK): Reliabilität und Validität

Diagnostica ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Kröger ◽  
Kurt Hahlweg ◽  
Christoph Braukhaus ◽  
Gabriele Fehm-Wolfsdorf ◽  
Thomas Groth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Reliabilität Und Validität ◽  
Deutsche Übersetzung

Zusammenfassung. Der Fragebogen zur Erfassung partnerschaftlicher Kommunikationsmuster (FPK) ist die deutsche Übersetzung des Communication Patterns Questionnaire CPQ ( Christensen, 1987 , 1988 ). Der FPK ist ein Selbstbeurteilungsinstrument, das dyadische Kommunikationsmuster unter Berücksichtigung des Verhaltens beider Partner erfassen soll, und besteht aus den Skalen Konstruktive Kommunikation, Konfliktvermeidung und weiblichem bzw. männlichem Forderungs-/Rückzugsmuster. An Hand einer Stichprobe von N = 143 Paaren, die an einer Studie zur Wirksamkeit präventiver Interventionen teilnahmen, wurden die teststatistischen Gütekriterien untersucht. Es zeigten sich befriedigende, mit der Originalversion vergleichbare interne Konsistenzen. Die Konstruktvalidität erscheint gegeben, da sich signifikante Zusammenhänge zwischen anderen, konzeptuell ähnlichen Fragebogen und dem beobachteten Interaktionsverhalten der Paare zeigten. Darüber hinaus differenzierten die Skalen zwischen glücklichen und unglücklichen Paaren. Weiterhin erfaßt der FPK sensitiv Therapieveränderungen.

The Ancestral Angle on Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Silvia
Keyword(s):  
The Arts
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