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I can, however, give you at least a taste of what I regard as the most powerful theory of beauty we yet have.
No, this theory comes from an expert on barnacles and worms and pigeon breeding, and you know who I mean: Charles Darwin.
It is, in theory, the global commons, belonging to us all.
And so, you tell them your theory and they say, "No, no, that's not the way consciousness is! No, you've got it all wrong."
And we're really making a lot of progress on coming up with a theory of mind.
Jeff Hawkins, this morning, was describing his attempt to get theory, and a good, big theory, into the neuroscience.
We have to have more theory, and it can come as much from the top down.
If you look at management theory these days, it used to be that our ideal leader sounded something like General Patton, right?
It was in theory, and hopefully in practice, a smart online magazine about sex and culture.
And I say, "God, I really wish I had really connected John Locke's theory of property with the philosophers that follow."
And reading that book made me reexamine that theory because I need to explain what I mean by that.
Now in learning from the past and sliding into the present, a radical theory of sex must identify, it must describe, explain and denounce sexual oppression and erotic injustice.
It's the one theory that the biologists ever really got right.
So Mendel had this idea of a gene as an abstract thing, and Darwin built a whole theory that depended on them existing, and then Watson and Crick actually looked and found one.
And Darwinian evolution is really the core theory.
It was Einstein's great general theory of relativity.
And he was reading Einstein's recently published general theory of relativity, and he was thrilled by this theory.
I'm a biologist, and the central theorem of our subject: the theory of design, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
Now, the difficult problem for any theory of biological design is to explain the massive statistical improbability of living things.
Complexity is the problem that any theory of biology has to solve, and you can't solve it by postulating an agent that is even more complex, thereby simply compounding the problem.
The God theory is not just a bad theory.
We couldn't have a germ theory of disease before we invented the microscope to see them.
Unlike the low entropy of the early universe, even though we don't know the answer for this, we at least have a good theory that can explain it, if that theory is right, and that's the theory of dark energy.
And even better, we will understand what happened at the Big Bang in terms of a theory that we will be able to compare to observations.
In addition to theorizing on evolution in "The Origin of Species," Charles Darwin also wrote the facial feedback response theory.
His theory states that the act of smiling itself actually makes us feel better, rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good.
The finding supported Darwin's theory, by showing that facial feedback modifies the neural processing of emotional content in the brain, in a way that helps us feel better when we smile.
There went that theory, down the trash can of history.
There was a theory.
It was a complicated theory; I'll tell you what it was soon enough.
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