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See Michael Gilberson , co-blogger with Lynne Kiesling at Knowledge Problem , discussing recent research: " Cooperation and cheating among bacteria ". I think we are beginning to see that ethical issues, that is, "problems" of cooperation between individuals, permeates life, and that...
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Gene Callahan has posted a link to an interesting article describing how plants respond to signals from other plants in their enviroment and alternatively cooperate or compete with neighboring plants, depending on degree of kinship.
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I copy here some thoughts I posted on two linked threads by Jeffrey Tucker and Stephan Kinsella in November regarding problems with intellectual property , as well as some relevant parts of the comment thread by Stephan and others: My own view has come around to the idea that state-created IP is abusive...
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[I note that this is one of my earlier Avatar-themed posts. 2010/02/15] I`ve often referred to Bruce Yandle , a "free-market environmentalist" who is dean emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University`s College of Business & Behavior Sciences, Distinguished...
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It has come to my attention that Gene Callahan has responded to my remarks regarding "objective moral truths" that I noted here . Rather than continuing the long threadjack of an unrelated post by Bob Murphy (on climate change science), I copy and respond below to Gene`s remarks: 1. Gene :...
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[Well, the Mises server just swallowed my first attempt at this post, so the reader will just have to suffer this sketchier one.] I have been chasing both Gene Callahan and Bob Murphy to try to get them to spell out what they mean when they assert that there is an "objective moral order" in...
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[Update: Bob Murphy sends in an email comment, copied (in relevant part) at the bottom of this post.] I`ve addressed here on five different threads the question of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post . I`ve commented here mainly because...
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A recent post on the Mises Daily pages on the " Religious Roots of Liberty " by the late Congregationalist minister Rev. Edmund Optiz (1914-2006) (originially published in The Freeman, February 1955 ) provides an opportunity to restate and discuss some of the thoughts I`ve been working though...
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I refer to my previous posts on the interesting subject of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post , returned to in a subsequent post but abandoned, to be picked up but ultimately punted by Bob Murphy (and again by Gene when he visited Bob...
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When I first heard of Karl Popper's book All Life as Problem Solving , I though that he would show how all the experiences humanity faces during life can be boiled down to instances of problem solving, but as I have become more intimate with his thought (though, I have yet to read the above book...
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I refer to Bob Murphy `s blog post, "Do Non-Believers Burn in Hell?" , which is still active, but with little further contribution from Bob (who`s been busy doing God`s work on other matters). In the post Bob asserts that "the doctrines of Christianity make sense and are logical"...
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His helpers are busy in a laboratory near you: http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_802264340 And other stories show how He left some of His Watchmaking tools lying scattered around the universe: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080114110715.htm http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy...