Martin Freiberg – Uncommon Descent

At Sci News: New Interactive Phylogenetic Map Shows Full Diversity of Life on Earth

“LifeGate 2022, created by Leipzig University researcher Martin Freiberg, is an attempt to arrange all known species (about 2.6 million) in an interactive zoomable user interface.”

relatd JVL at 127, Why do some metals combine to form alloys while some cannot? The alloy has properties of the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Origenes: It makes sense to say that a statement about the system as a whole must come from a position... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Relatd: This is a subatomic/quantum effect. And not explainable as emergent anything. Well, I think water does exhibit properties not... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL I'm not sure we've latched onto the real notion of axiom, at least in mathematics. Again from Wikipedia: An axiom,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd Origenes at 180, A strong desire toward simple, but elaborate sounding, explanations doesn't explain anything. Human beings have been trying... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes StephenB Ted Bundy’s immoral actions are NOT a direct result of something made by God. Ted Bundy is made by... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
relatd JVL at 123, A little chemistry lesson. Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water. If you take a tank with... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes PM1What Gödel did was prove that, for a specific class of formal systems, there will be statements constructed in that... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Jerry: If anything actually emerged, it would destroy itself in a very short time. Nothing more has to be said.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Jerry: It’s an old computer (Apple laptop) but with most recent system for it. Me too; two different Macs in... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 Addition to my 118 The rules of a game tell you what is a legitimate move in the game. In... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd "anti-physicalist"? Seriously? Elaborate arguments confuse the issue. There is no "emergent" anything. It is fiction. As in fiction. [said with... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd What a horrible, horrible article. As a working editor, I would have had a long talk with the writer about... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
PyrrhoManiac1 @116 If “strongly emergent” means “caused by the physical anyway even though it cannot be explained by it”, then the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 @112 In my view, Gödel’s theorem makes clear that each system is necessarily based on axioms that cannot be proved... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Emergence is a nonsense idea. Yet thousands of comments are wasted on it. It is the least likely way for... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Targets become a question of: Which target is most convenient to hit just now? The Montagnards always destroy the Girondins... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
asauber "why Darwinism is not longer needed" News, The shine on it came off, due to it being obviously flawed. But...... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
News All true, bornagain, and thanks! The reason Darwinism survived various purges is that it was a useful weapon in Cancel... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
jerry has a beginning, a middle, and an end that’s unfolding over time. Any other scenario leads to absurdities. It's not... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes PM1 @111 In “Strong and weak emergence” Chalmers defines strong emergence as “not deducible even in principle from the laws... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...