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performing the virtuous actions in the first place.”
11
Such passing insights, gathering
energy between Aristotle and Aquinas, are exceedingly relevant to any discourse
that proposes to investigate the long-held Socratic predicate that “a cause increases
the probability of its effect…“.
12
The rise of the great Greek and Latin understanding of “scintilla conscientiae,” the sparks of conscience in human life and consciousness, touches upon our lives today in mores that explode the narrow categories
of science and spirituality; of all forms of expression and perception, precisely
because of their unavoidably paradoxical nature.
In one recent study of human behavior, investigators examined both aggressive
and social dominance, and the degree to which information feedback stokes either
penchant. Aggressive individuals tend to block out feedback. Whereas studies pertaining to aggression in other species have shown a particularly canny and demonstrative reliance, widespread, upon exogenous information-laden inputs. This
suggests that humans may be inherently violent; other species not.
13
Such conclusions are assuredly ill-boding with respect to the continuing Anthropocene.
In the case of Simpson’s Paradox, probabilities of differing classes or groups of
data, when juxtaposed, reverse the probability earlier projected.
14
In other words,
the larger the data class, the more dissimulated its projections and sums; much like
mean averages diffusing stark contrasts. It suggests, at one critical level, that an
ecologically overpopulated species such as our own will tend to lose distinctions,
and that which is emphatic will be suffused. This proffers enormous genetic, emotional, and political implications beyond the scope of full enumeration at this point.
Except to recognize that with a human population verging upon 8 billion, there is
unlikely to emerge any countervailing factors that might serve as biological anodynes for the current reality of collective human adulterations.
15
Lacking any consistent understanding of a sustainable human population—estimates have ranged from zero to 500 million and beyond—we are left with numeric
correlations. The human global population was roughly 1 billion in 1804, when
11 See “Medieval Theories of Conscience,” First published Mon Nov 23, 1998; substantive revision
Thu Jul 23, 2015, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conscience-medieval/, Accessed September 11, 2018.
12 See “Causation, Probability, and the Continuity Bind,” by Anthony F. Peressini, British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science 69 (3):881–909, 2018: https://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?pub=158,
Accessed September 11, 2018.
13 See Volume 24, Issue 23, P2812–2816, December 1, 2014, “The Social Dominance Paradox,” by
Jennifer Louise Cook, Hanneke E.M. den Ouden, Cecilia M. Heyes and Roshan Cools, Open
ArchivePublished:November 20, 2014DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.014, Cell
Biology,
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)01290-1, Accessed
September 11, 2018.
14 See Simpson, Edward H. (1951). “The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables”.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 13: 238–241.
15 See G. U. Yule (1903). “Notes on the Theory of Association of Attributes in Statistics”.
Biometrika. 2 (2): 121–134. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/2.2.121; See Simpson, Edward H.
(1951). “The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables”. Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society, Series B. 13: 238–241.
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performing the virtuous actions in the first place.”
11
Such passing insights, gathering
energy between Aristotle and Aquinas, are exceedingly relevant to any discourse
that proposes to investigate the long-held Socratic predicate that “a cause increases
the probability of its effect…“.
12
The rise of the great Greek and Latin understanding of “scintilla conscientiae,” the sparks of conscience in human life and consciousness, touches upon our lives today in mores that explode the narrow categories
of science and spirituality; of all forms of expression and perception, precisely
because of their unavoidably paradoxical nature.
In one recent study of human behavior, investigators examined both aggressive
and social dominance, and the degree to which information feedback stokes either
penchant. Aggressive individuals tend to block out feedback. Whereas studies pertaining to aggression in other species have shown a particularly canny and demonstrative reliance, widespread, upon exogenous information-laden inputs. This
suggests that humans may be inherently violent; other species not.
13
Such conclusions are assuredly ill-boding with respect to the continuing Anthropocene.
In the case of Simpson’s Paradox, probabilities of differing classes or groups of
data, when juxtaposed, reverse the probability earlier projected.
14
In other words,
the larger the data class, the more dissimulated its projections and sums; much like
mean averages diffusing stark contrasts. It suggests, at one critical level, that an
ecologically overpopulated species such as our own will tend to lose distinctions,
and that which is emphatic will be suffused. This proffers enormous genetic, emotional, and political implications beyond the scope of full enumeration at this point.
Except to recognize that with a human population verging upon 8 billion, there is
unlikely to emerge any countervailing factors that might serve as biological anodynes for the current reality of collective human adulterations.
15
Lacking any consistent understanding of a sustainable human population—estimates have ranged from zero to 500 million and beyond—we are left with numeric
correlations. The human global population was roughly 1 billion in 1804, when
11 See “Medieval Theories of Conscience,” First published Mon Nov 23, 1998; substantive revision
Thu Jul 23, 2015, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conscience-medieval/, Accessed September 11, 2018.
12 See “Causation, Probability, and the Continuity Bind,” by Anthony F. Peressini, British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science 69 (3):881–909, 2018: https://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?pub=158,
Accessed September 11, 2018.
13 See Volume 24, Issue 23, P2812–2816, December 1, 2014, “The Social Dominance Paradox,” by
Jennifer Louise Cook, Hanneke E.M. den Ouden, Cecilia M. Heyes and Roshan Cools, Open
ArchivePublished:November 20, 2014DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.014, Cell
Biology,
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)01290-1, Accessed
September 11, 2018.
14 See Simpson, Edward H. (1951). “The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables”.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 13: 238–241.
15 See G. U. Yule (1903). “Notes on the Theory of Association of Attributes in Statistics”.
Biometrika. 2 (2): 121–134. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/2.2.121; See Simpson, Edward H.
(1951). “The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables”. Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society, Series B. 13: 238–241.
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