[extropy-chat] EDU: Georgia and Evolution

[Kevin Freels]

That's terrific! It sure would help us in America if we had a bunch of
30-130 thousand year old fossilized neanderthal bones all around us like you
have in France! Europeans, Africans, and Australians have access to all the
cool stuff!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JDP" <jacques at dtext.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] EDU: Georgia and Evolution


> > --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:
> >
> >>One really has to wonder about the worlds that people
> >>live in in their minds.
> >>
> >>Georgia Takes on 'Evolution'
> >>
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/education/30GEOR.html?pagewanted=print
> >
> >>I would be less inclined to worry about the people like
> >>Kass in the world and more inclined to worry about the
> >>people who at a very local level are brainwashing minds.
>
> I have been giving a little help to a 16 y/o highschool student here in
> France for his biology course. I was delighted to discover what they are
> studying. A strong stress on Man, seen as a natural product of
> evolution; emotions as caused by processes in the nervous system;
> genetic engineering shown in a positive light.
>
> Think of this: What kind of education did the political guys now in
> control receive ? A very different one. Probably no connection
> whatsoever between Man and evolution. What will happen when the kids
> raised on this get in control? Transhumanism is likely to seem rather
> obvious for people educated that way in highschool.
>
> 3 main topics for this year:
>
> 1) Nervous comunication
>
> - Fundamental aspects of nervous communication [with nociception as a
> particular case]
> - The action of chemicals on the nervous system [enkephalins/morphine,
etc.]
>
> 2) From genotype to phenotype
>
> - The relationship betwen DNA and proteins
> - Complexity of the relationship between genes, phenotypes and environment
>
> 3) The position of Man within evolution
>
> - Looking for the common ancestor
> - The emergence of the humand kind
>
> And that's for the whole country. The content is pretty technical for
> that age, and he's not even in a scientific path. Hopeful stuff, I say.
>
> Jacques
>
> PS: Happy birthday to Max! I hope you become more present again in the
> movement you initiated in a near future. You are a great inspiration for
> many.
>
>
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