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Pixie dust regrows finger

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

See:
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Article reads: Dr Stephen Badylak, of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, told the BBC: “There are all sorts of signals in the body. “We have got signals that are good for forming scar tissue and others that are good for regenerating tissues. “One way to think about these matrices […]

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Tags: Stephen P. Smith · science

Emotions controlled by sublime causation

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Is teleology, or backward causation, a non-starter? This would make its antithesis a non-starter too; its antithesis states that backward causation does not exists, or that forward causation explains everything. Hume noted that causation does not have a firm foundation in reason, and Kant noted that the question of causation takes us to the 3rd antinomy […]

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Tags: Stephen P. Smith · evolution