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Evolution: biological and social. Column in ComputerreOnline #84
When making strategic decisions, we do not take long‑term forecasts into account simply because, due to the organization of our society, we give priority to the short‑term interests of individual …
Mountain road. Column in ComputerreOnline #85
None of us will predetermine which scenario of humanity's development will be realized. But the actions of each of us can increase the probability of a technological transition or feralization.
The internal is more important than the external. Column in ComputerreOnline #86
A successful organismal construction turns out to be a trap from which it is practically impossible to escape without reorganizing the nature of selection. A biospheric crisis can release it.
Forward, Toward the Epigenetic Future! Column in KomputerraOnline #87
The distinctive feature of the epigenetic theory of evolution is its attention to the organism and its development as an integral system viewed phenomenologically rather than analytically.
Ontological adaptationism. Column in ComputerreOnline #88
Do not seek a way to shift responsibility from yourself onto “objective reality,” God, or the mysterious properties of the universe.
December Walks Around Kharkiv
The first part of the photographs shown here was taken on 1 and 2 December, and the second part (with the ice-covered trees) on 7 December, in the morning and …
Dnipropetrovsk, Early in the Morning and a Little Later
Yesterday, December 14, we spent on a trip to Dnipropetrovsk. We left at night (the train was at one o’clock) and arrived in Dnipropetrovsk at 5:40. Our cities are inconveniently …
Reality vs. actuality. Column in ComputerraOnline #89
Discussions of "objective reality" are most often linked to a simple sophism: let us imagine that which exists outside our conceptions and outside any connection with them...
Cold Morning and Cold Evening in Kyiv
I spent December 18 in Kyiv. The whole day went into standing in line at a not very pleasant office, and in the morning and evening I managed to take …
Dies irae
How "to work" with end-of-the-world expectations according to astrological versions, I do not know, but the threat of an ecological catastrophe should serve as an impetus to reconsider our way …
Dialogue with reality. Column in ComputerraOnline #91
Serious changes will inevitably occur in our lives; perhaps we are facing serious threats. Which worldview will prove to be the most adaptive in such a situation?