If we choose, we can use genetic engineering to alter the character of our offspring. ...the motivation to do this will eventually become overwhelmin… - J. Doyne Farmer

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If we choose, we can use genetic engineering to alter the character of our offspring. ...the motivation to do this will eventually become overwhelming.

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About J. Doyne Farmer

J. Doyne Farmer (born 1952) is an American physicist and entrepreneur, with interests in chaos theory, complexity and econophysics. He is currently Professor of Mathematics and Co-Director of the program on Complexity Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford University Martin School.

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Alternative Names: James Doyne Farmer James Doyne Farmer, Jr. J Doyne Farmer

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One of the factors that caused Spencer's ideas to lose popularity was social Darwinism... Social evolution is different from biological evolution: it's faster, it's Lamarckian, and it makes even heavier use of altruism and cooperation than biological evolution does. None of this was well understood at the time.

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It seemed that fundamental physics was stuck. The particle physicists were smashing particles into each other with ever increasing force, trying to figure out how many quarks could dance on the head of a pin. The cosmologists were working with very few facts... on what seemed to me to be mainly religious grounds. And most of physics was still focused on pushing and pulling, on the material properties... rather than on its informational properties. ...those that relate to order and disorder.

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