Evolution of Eddington's ideas

Modern ideas of evolution

The evolution of big ideas

T he history of science is littered with big ideas—from the Earth being a globe, to the theory of gravity, to phlogiston theory, to the theory of evolution and cold fusion—some of which eventually ended up on the great heap of disproven theories as new knowledge proved them to be wrong or unfeasible. In biomedical research, grand visions include the Human Genome Project (HGP) or the Human Brain...

Stochastic evolution in populations of ideas

It is known that learning of players who interact in a repeated game can be interpreted as an evolutionary process in a population of ideas. These analogies have so far mostly been established in deterministic models, and memory loss in learning has been seen to act similarly to mutation in evolution. We here propose a representation of reinforcement learning as a stochastic process in finite '...

Dawson, J. William. Modern Ideas of Evolution

While politicians have known for years that the essence ofleadership is embodied in a keen awareness of what the followers want, that news hasn't yet percolated sufficiently deeply into the medical care field. This is an excellent book-a model of thoughtful, academic analysis and insights, with a dash of historical relevance to give it the appearance of utility. Regionali7ation is good, necessa...

The evolution of ideas concerning the function of the neocortex.

Vernon B. Mountcastle is Professor Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and head of the Philip Bard Laboratories of Neurophysiology in the Zangvil Krieger Mind/ Brain Institute at that university. His illustrious scientific career has been devoted to the study of the cerebral cortex, and his work has had an enormous impact on the field and on our understanding of the biological basis of...