{"id":432,"date":"2005-04-07T06:53:53","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=432"},"modified":"2005-04-07T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T11:53:53","slug":"e-o-wilson-talk-at-morehead-science-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/e-o-wilson-talk-at-morehead-science-center\/","title":{"rendered":"E. O. Wilson talk at Morehead Science Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Sally and Tucker and I went to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/moreheadplanetarium.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=news_item&#038;id=263\">E. O. Wilson speak at the Morehead Science Center.<\/a> His talk was co-sponsored by the National Humanities Center which gave the talk an interesting direction toward Wilson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/067976867X\/\">Consilience : the unity of knowledge (1998) book<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1583484256\/\">Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of the Mind (with Charles Lumsden)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few not exactly random notes:<\/p>\n<p>Environmental Science | Ethics<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nSocial Science                 | Biology<\/p>\n<p>the quad above represents a flow of interactions as we try to get at big problems usually going clockwise say from Biology to social science to environmental science to ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Studying languages that add colors or that are impoverished in their names for colors we see:<br \/>\nonly 2 terms = Black and white<br \/>\n         3 terms = Black, white and Red<br \/>\n                           (note that these are the colors attractive to new borns &#8211; pj)<br \/>\n         4 terms = Black, white, red and Green OR Yellow<br \/>\n         5 terms = Black, white, red, and Green AND Yellow<br \/>\n         6 terms = Black, white, red, green, yellow and Blue<br \/>\n         7 terms = Black, white, red, green, yellow, blue and Brown<br \/>\nThen purple, gray, orange, in no particular order<\/p>\n<p>A bit about the incest taboo being strong in primates and recognized by very primative societies. If children are raised together at a very early age, they will not be physicially attracted to each other. Children raised together in a kibbutz rarely if ever marry within that kibbutz. All of this a description of the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edvard_Westermarck\">Edvard Westermarck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Small joking observation in response to a question of what traits other than language are unique to humans:<br \/>\nMan has Paleolithic emotions, Medieval institutions, and God-like powers of catastrophic destruction through his technologies.<\/p>\n<p>As an extra treat, we sat behind Larry Earley, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/interviews\/earley_interview.htm\">Looking for Longleaf: The Rise and Fall of an American Forest<\/a>, one of Sally&#8217;s favorite recent books to  have read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Sally and Tucker and I went to hear E. O. Wilson speak at the Morehead Science Center. His talk was co-sponsored by the National Humanities Center which gave the talk an interesting direction toward Wilson&#8217;s Consilience : the unity of knowledge (1998) book and his Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}