Gaian nodes

1. Andy Clark  ________ (welcomes, deplores, is indifferent towards) the prospect.of our becoming "reconfigurable nodes in a flux of information."

2. Tino Sehgal anticipates a new idea of _____ subjectivity.

3. By "hidden persuaders" Helen Fisher means what?

4. Henry Happending says nearly everyone in the "gamete market" will want to select traits like ________.  Marco Iacoboni thinks brain stimulation plus brain imaging will offset aging, fix mood disorders, and make it possible for everyone to be ______ in ways specific to their own distinctive neurophysiology. Karl Sabbagh says only good could come from re-engineering ourselves to suppress what?

5. What matters, says Jesse Bering, is not whether our beliefs about the world are accurate but whether they ____. But he also views "explanatory ________" as the cornerstone of science. Clifford Pickover says ____ can explain the color of the sunset.

6. Lee Smolin says the new view of time rules out any timeless and transcendent Platonic realm of values, ethics, and meaning, as well as _____ and ______. They are human projections which would not exist without us.

7. (T/F) Paul Steinhardt says the notion of "events before the Big Bang" is incoherent.

8. If we learn to create the outer human form, says Mark Pagel, we can then separate ____ and ____; then, we'll achieve practical immortality.

9. Pluripotent stem cells come from ______. Ian Wilmut thinks they'll enable us to treat diseases like _________ for which there is no evidence of a genetic cause.

10. Paul Ewald thinks the successful treatment of infectious diseases will result in people living healthily into their ____s, on average.

11. The body's evolved systems are _________ complex, says Randolph Nesse, as if designed by Rube Goldberg and modified by ______ tinkerers; but this is nothing like being  __________ complex.

12. The recent global economic collapse, says Brian Goodwin, shows we've failed to appreciate the mutual integration of nature and culture as a sustainable parts of _____.

13. Jonathan Haidt predicts "war" over what, beginning in around 2012?

14. What does Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi mean by "analytic science"?

15. (T/F) Austin Dacey is revolted by the idea of "cultured , in vitro" meat.

16. Richard Foreman says a human being able not to think about the future would become more  ________ (animal, human)

17. _________ will soon be the new "self-esteem," says Betsy Devine.

18. When will human nature be revealed, according to Aubrey de Grey?

NOTE TO FoL STUDENTS: Exam 2 is Wednesday. We'll go over this quiz first. If you want to submit possible exam questions please get them to me by Tuesday evening.