Adaption and overcome
Later this life invaded the land.
Some of our own early stock took part in that invasion. The moving equilibrium of the cells' life in our carly stock was almost literally an energy-eddy in the sea. The water of the sea conditioned it. Its energy-exchanges were based upon the sea. How if cut off from the sea could such a life exist? The Canadian biologist, Archibald Macallum, gave a reading of this riddle. The salts dissolved in our blood today are those of that long past geological epoch. Already in that sea the vertebrate creature, with many of its cells buried in the body's bulk, away from actual touch with the seawater, had evolved a system of branching tubes and a muscular pump, the heart, bringing to each buried cell a blood of salinity similar to that of the archaic sea, a substitute for that sea- water in which its cells had first arisen, to which their ways of life were adapted. When it left the sea altogether for its Odyssey on land, it had but to carry that habit of manufacture with it. It has done so. With that it has crossed mountain ranges and desert sands carrying its own medium with it. It has invaded air as well as land. It runs, and flies, and walks erect. The water of ocean itself has changed from what in that old sea it was. It has changed with the washings of rivers into it for millions of years since then. But the blood, a dynamic equilibrium, has in respect to those salts remained steady. The poet sang, with more literal truth than perhaps he knew, in- voking the sea, "the salt is lodged for ever in, my blood"s That some of them did give up that old ocean allowed the possibility of our becoming what we are
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Huzursuzluk
To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health.
Giyilebilen veya takılabilen teknoloji, mobil telefonlara paralel olarak duyguları da istismar etme amaçlı. Çiftlerin duygusal durumunu izlemek ve davranışlarını değiştirmek üzere algoritmalarla psikolojik sinyaller incelenip değerlendiriliyor. Dediklerine göre sırada anne/baba-çocuk ilişkileri olacakmış. Takılabilenler oldukça gelişmiş durumda, dolayısıyla hızla üçüncü aşamaya doğru ilerliyoruz, bu da ta başından beri planlanmış olan bedene yerleştirilecek olan mikroçipler.
Bunlara vücutta aktive olan piller de dahil. Bunların yararları mikroçiplerle kaydedilecekmiş. Bu sinsi "parmak ucunda yürüyüş" tekniği, aynı amaçla zorunlu psikolojik sağlık adına kullanılacak. Equilibrium adlı Hollywood filminde gelecekteki feci hayat tasvir edilmiş. Birçok insanın bu konudaki bilgisizliği ve saflığı çocuk seviyesinde...
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In all honesty, I’d had a harmless crush on my boss for years now. I didn’t give myself a hard time about it. There was no way to remain unaffected by Dane Davenport. “Good-looking” was too tame a term for him. Tall, dark, and supremely male, he exuded a raw sex appeal that could shake any girl’s equilibrium.
It wasn’t just his appearance that made him so lethally seductive. It was the entire package—his powerful personality, innate aura of authority, unshakable self-assuredness, and the untamed air about him that spoke of danger.
To understand the importance of this epistemological revolution—f i rst the creation and consolidation of the concept of the so-called two cultures, and then within it the triumph of sci-entif i c universalism—one must situate it within the structure of our modern world-system. It is a capitalist world-economy. It has been in existence for some fi ve hundred years and has ex-panded from its initial locus (parts of Europe plus parts of the Americas) to incorporate by the nineteenth century the entire globe in its orbit, becoming the only historical system on the planet. Like all systems, it has had a life: its period of origin, its longish period of ongoing functioning, and its current terminal structural crisis. During its period of normal functioning, it op-erated by certain rules or constraints within certain physical boundaries that expanded over time. And these characteristics allow us to call it a system. Like all systems, however, it evolved in observable ways that permit us to label it a historical system. That is to say, its description along its itinerary, while retaining some basic systemic features, was always changing or evolving. We can describe its systemic features in terms of cyclical rhythms (changes that return to an equilibrium, perhaps a moving equi-librium), and its historical evolution in terms of secular trends (changes that move away from the equilibrium, eventually far from the equilibrium).
where the old economy was a machine, the new one is a chemistry, always creating itself in new combinations, always discovering, always in process.
order, closedness, and equilibrium as ways of organizing explanations are giving way to open-endedness, indeterminacy, and emergence of perpetual novelty."
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A cycle has been completed, all disturbances have been resolved, perplexities have been concealed, and things have returned to their original state. Around us, cause and effect join hands, and synthesis and division maintain their equilibrium. Everything, finally, unfolded in a place resembling a deep, inaccessible fissure. Such places open secret entries into darkness in the interval between midnight and the time the sky grows light.
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Perfect competition” is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand. Every firm in a competitive market is undifferentiated and sells the same homogeneous products. Since no firm has any market power, they must all sell at whatever price the market determines. If there is money to be made, new firms will enter the market, increase supply, drive prices down, and thereby eliminate the profits that attracted them in the first place. If too many firms enter the market, they’ll suffer losses, some will fold, and prices will rise back to sustainable levels. Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.
But while people can get rid of money individually, by buying things with it, they can’t get rid of money in the aggregate, because the $100 billion still exists, and they can’t get rid of it short of burning it up. But as people spend more, this drives up demand curves for most or all goods and services. As the demand curves shift upward and to the right, prices rise. But as prices overall rise further and further, PPM begins to fall, as the downward arrow indicates. And as the PPM begins to fall, the surplus of cash balances begins to disappear until finally, prices have risen so much that the $100 billion no longer burns a hole in anyone’s pocket. At the higher price level, people are now willing to keep the exact amount of $100 billion that is available in the economy.
The market is at last cleared, and people now wish to hold no more and no less than the $100 billion available. The demand for money has been brought into equilibrium with the supply of money, and the PPM and price level are in equilibrium. People were not able to get rid of money in the aggregate, but they were able to drive up prices so as to end the surplus of cash balances.
Sayfa 34 - PPM is the purchasing power of the dollar
21. yüzyılın yapay zeka, büyük veri ve gelecek gibi yaygın film izlekleri arasında bunlarla çoğunlukla çakışan bir konu daha var: Gözetim. Sayıya vurursak, bütün bir 20. yüzyıl boyunca çekilen gözetim konulu filmlerin sayısı, 21. yüzyılın daha ilk 20 yılındakinden bile daha az. Geçen yüzyılın gözetim filmlerinin üçte biri, zaten yalnızca
It’s enough to make me ask the question: how well do we really know ourselves?
The more I think about it, the more I’d like to take a rain check on the topic of me. What I’d like to know more about is the objective reality of things outside myself. How important the world outside is to me, how I maintain a sense of equilibrium by coming to terms with it. That’s how I’d grasp a dearer sense of who I am.
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The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium.
Hollywood sineması
Hollywood filmleri de mi bir ışık yakamıyor beyinlerde? Önce film çevriliyor, sonra... Gattaca (1977), Inhale, Nefes Nefese (2010), Ada, Deney, Suretler (2009), Equilibrium (2002), Never Let Me Go (2010), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Zehra'nın Gözleri gibi filmler niçin çevrildi ve vizyona girdi sanıyorsunuz!
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güzel tavsiye:°°What we want is just a rest.°°
" Rest and a complete change, " said George. " The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for though, will restore the mental equilibrium.
