Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · gutenberg0.769

   Together, they may solve by a method more sure, brought nearer to experience, the great problems that philosophy poses. For, if they should succeed in their common enterprise, they would show us the formation of the intellect, and thereby the genesis of that matter of which our intellect traces the general configuration. They would dig to the very root of nature and of mind. They would substitute for the false evolutionism of Spencer--which consists in cutting up present reality, already evolved, into little bits no less evolved, and then recomposing it with these fragments, thus positing in a…

   gutenberg/PG-26163-creative-evolution/PG-26163.txt

2. 02 · blog0.768

   =========================== ===== Recent work in several areas of biology is showing that heredity is not rigidly deterministic, in the way implied by traditional genetics, and it is opening the way for the development of therapies for incurable, chronic, or congenital problems, in natural and holistic ways that don't involve the mechanistic interventions of "gene therapy" or "genetic engineering." For example, nontoxic treatments for cancer that were demonstrated decades ago, were discarded because they didn't seem consistent with "genetics." Many problems that are classified as congenital or…

   blog/raypeat-com/estrogen-memory-and-heredity-imprinting-and-the-stress-response.md

3. 03 · _intake0.757

   Darwin was right about this back in his day, but he never wrote a thing about it because he could not fathom the queerness of Lady Evolution. To do that, you needed Einstein’s mass equivalence equation. The problem is that neo-Darwinians never use the conditions of existence as their starting point. Darwin himself said countless times that it was by far the most important of the two. Instead, they have focused on using natural selection because it is the only support found in the data covering the morphology Darwin observed. This is their achilles heel. **Morphology is not a quantum mechanism,…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/osf-3-darwin-was-wrong.md

4. 04 · yt0.757

   And making sense of the evolution of hearts and kidneys and things like that could be the worlds of bioengineers and biomechanics folks with an underlying logic that it's got to be something that increases the number of copies of genes that you leave. And the whole rationale for Wednesday's lecture and today is applying the same sort of logic to behavior. The whole world of just as you can optimize sort of the way one's neck, how long it is if you're a giraffe, you can optimize behavioral strategies. And again, also for a caveat, no animal is sitting there, maybe with the exception of some oth…

   yt/oKNAzl-XN4I-3-behavioral-evolution-ii/transcript.txt

5. 05 · gutenberg0.756

   Yet evolutionist philosophy does not hesitate to extend to the things of life the same methods of explanation which have succeeded in the case of unorganized matter. It begins by showing us in the intellect a local effect of evolution, a flame, perhaps accidental, which lights up the coming and going of living beings in the narrow passage open to their action; and lo! forgetting what it has just told us, it makes of this lantern glimmering in a tunnel a Sun which can illuminate the world. Boldly it proceeds, with the powers of conceptual thought alone, to the ideal reconstruction of all things…

   gutenberg/PG-26163-creative-evolution/PG-26163.txt

6. 06 · archive0.754

   Charles Darwin recognized the difficulties that ensue when introducing new ideas that cul- minate in a different way to view phenomena. In the “Recapitulation and Conclusions” to Origin of Species he writes, “Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this vo- lume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine” (453). His theories imposed a belief system that he recognized would come into conf…

   archive/ERIC_EJ870460/ERIC_EJ870460_djvu.txt

7. 07 · _intake0.753

   Ironically, in this series, I am pointing out the very same problem that modern chemistry and biology have today, because of how they fail to include **molecular timing** as a vital ingredient into the recipe of how life forms and evolves from the chaos the world it finds itself in presently. How does modern life affects the evolutionary flux right now? The answer is called transgenerational epigenetics. This is our new name for “conditions of existence”.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/emf-6-quantum-time.md

8. 08 · gutenberg0.752

   The reader must naturally have a strong inducement to co-operate with the present author, if he has formed the intention of erecting a complete and solid edifice of metaphysical science, according to the plan now laid before him. Metaphysics, as here represented, is the only science which admits of completion—and with little labour, if it is united, in a short time; so that nothing will be left to future generations except the task of illustrating and applying it _didactically_. For this science is nothing more than the inventory of all that is given us by _pure reason_, systematically arrange…

   gutenberg/PG-4280-the-critique-of-pure-reason/PG-4280.txt

9. 09 · yt0.751

   It doesn't have any explaining power for that. Yes. So that's what always like bothered what it always seemed like some glaring kind like issue with survival of the fittest explaining the development of new things. It's just it's a it's like a chaos will will reduce qualities not it doesn't have a creating power you know there has to be some other p some other force or natural supernatural whatever that that factors into the creation of new or the development of new things. Yes. Well, you're pointing out a key difficulty in those uh evolutionary scenarios that involve only natural selection. N…

   yt/tKb8RJmg_20-michael-cremo-the-origins-of-mankind-forbidden-archeology/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.750

    It's widely agreed that experience arises from a physical basis, but we have no good explanation of how and why it so arises." Now this is the way the Chalmers formulated the hard problem. But of course, this is not a new problem, as David said. It's something we've been pondering for millennia. But in particular, I've emphasized this phrase, something it is like, in order to make a link back to another philosopher, Tom Nagel, who wrote in 1974, "An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism, something it's like for the organism."…

    yt/CmuYrnOVmfk-the-source-of-consciousness-with-mark-solms/transcript.txt