701
deep learning, as it is commonly applied to algorithms, machine intelligence, and
neural networks.
8
Deep biology preserves in consciousness the readiness, willingness, and reciprocity potentials of the conscience. It extends from nerve endings,
and all those trillions of individuals within us, to the external world of mice and
spiders and whales. To companion animals and woodpeckers.
This unknown antecedent of feeling and co-symbiont affiliation procreates the
deepest, most intuition-bound logic of empathy between ourselves and all Others, in
principle. Such correlates—consciousness, the conscience—are the heart of all paradox, because of the frailty of the mathematical underpinnings, the innate ambivalence of principles, and the stubborn flame within the human spirit (as described by
Nikos Kazantzakis) that encounters a similar flame in all other creatures. Much like
the hundreds if not thousands of shrimp-like amphipods living inside the gills of the
whale shark.
9
At the time avid collectors like Albertus Seba were assiduously assembling every
diverse corpse they could afford, developing secretive methods for preserving the
dead bodies, then hiring scores of painters to create black and white, then prettified
color images for the eventual copper plates, putting up a third of their own funds to
solicit publishing agreements with subscribers who would contribute their share in
return for discounted finished products, and, ultimately, marveling at their lovely
likenesses, whole natural history museums on paper, there was no paralysis. This
was the science of natural history, delivered expensively to the public. Seba died one
year after the first edition of Carl Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae. The scientific renaissance had been launched, and the killing of plants and animals would fuel a commercial popularization that would lead from one of the earliest city gardens, that of
Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus designed in 1638, to the zoo and biomedical cultures of the modern world, wherein animals were viewed as laboratory units of
merchandise, things to be calculated, objectified, stored away upon shelves and in
dusty backroom cartons.
The paradox of this particular transition in the history of ecological aesthetics is
altogether palpable in a painter like Leonardo da Vinci, whose painted backdrops
typically encompassed a paradise-like setting—note those to the rear of “The Virgin
of the Rocks”(1483–1485), “St John the Baptist (with the Attributes of Bacchus),”
Workshop of Leonardo (1513-1519), “Portrait of Ginevra de’Benci” (1478–1480),
8 See “Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine,” by Travers Ching,
Daniel S. Himmelstein, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones, Alexandr A. Kalinin, Brian T. Do, Gregory
P. Way, Enrico Ferrero, Paul-Michael Agapow, Michael Zietz, Michael M. Hoffman, Wei Xie, Gail
L. Rosen, et.al., 04 April 2018. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0387, Journal of the Royal
Society Interface, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2017.0387; See also,
“Recent Advances of Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,” Binhua Tang,
Zixiang Pan, Kang Yin and Asif Khateeb, Frontiers in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00214/full, Review Article,
Front. Genet., 26 March 2019, https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00214
9 See “These Newly Discovered Shrimp Call a Whale Shark’s Mouth Home,” by Jason Daley,
Smithsonianmag.com, October 29, 2019, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tinycrustacean-calls-whale-sharks-mouth-home-180973421/. Accessed August 12, 2020.
77.5 From a Tired Trigonometry to the Welcoming Co-symbiosis of the Creation
deep learning, as it is commonly applied to algorithms, machine intelligence, and
neural networks.
8
Deep biology preserves in consciousness the readiness, willingness, and reciprocity potentials of the conscience. It extends from nerve endings,
and all those trillions of individuals within us, to the external world of mice and
spiders and whales. To companion animals and woodpeckers.
This unknown antecedent of feeling and co-symbiont affiliation procreates the
deepest, most intuition-bound logic of empathy between ourselves and all Others, in
principle. Such correlates—consciousness, the conscience—are the heart of all paradox, because of the frailty of the mathematical underpinnings, the innate ambivalence of principles, and the stubborn flame within the human spirit (as described by
Nikos Kazantzakis) that encounters a similar flame in all other creatures. Much like
the hundreds if not thousands of shrimp-like amphipods living inside the gills of the
whale shark.
9
At the time avid collectors like Albertus Seba were assiduously assembling every
diverse corpse they could afford, developing secretive methods for preserving the
dead bodies, then hiring scores of painters to create black and white, then prettified
color images for the eventual copper plates, putting up a third of their own funds to
solicit publishing agreements with subscribers who would contribute their share in
return for discounted finished products, and, ultimately, marveling at their lovely
likenesses, whole natural history museums on paper, there was no paralysis. This
was the science of natural history, delivered expensively to the public. Seba died one
year after the first edition of Carl Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae. The scientific renaissance had been launched, and the killing of plants and animals would fuel a commercial popularization that would lead from one of the earliest city gardens, that of
Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus designed in 1638, to the zoo and biomedical cultures of the modern world, wherein animals were viewed as laboratory units of
merchandise, things to be calculated, objectified, stored away upon shelves and in
dusty backroom cartons.
The paradox of this particular transition in the history of ecological aesthetics is
altogether palpable in a painter like Leonardo da Vinci, whose painted backdrops
typically encompassed a paradise-like setting—note those to the rear of “The Virgin
of the Rocks”(1483–1485), “St John the Baptist (with the Attributes of Bacchus),”
Workshop of Leonardo (1513-1519), “Portrait of Ginevra de’Benci” (1478–1480),
8 See “Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine,” by Travers Ching,
Daniel S. Himmelstein, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones, Alexandr A. Kalinin, Brian T. Do, Gregory
P. Way, Enrico Ferrero, Paul-Michael Agapow, Michael Zietz, Michael M. Hoffman, Wei Xie, Gail
L. Rosen, et.al., 04 April 2018. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0387, Journal of the Royal
Society Interface, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2017.0387; See also,
“Recent Advances of Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,” Binhua Tang,
Zixiang Pan, Kang Yin and Asif Khateeb, Frontiers in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00214/full, Review Article,
Front. Genet., 26 March 2019, https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00214
9 See “These Newly Discovered Shrimp Call a Whale Shark’s Mouth Home,” by Jason Daley,
Smithsonianmag.com, October 29, 2019, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tinycrustacean-calls-whale-sharks-mouth-home-180973421/. Accessed August 12, 2020.
77.5 From a Tired Trigonometry to the Welcoming Co-symbiosis of the Creation