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From Biology to Sociopolitics: Conceptual Continuity in Complex Systems
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Ageing, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy
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Cell Biology: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Living State
Published in Hardcover by HarperCollins (1989)
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Real and Financial Sector of Industrial Countries
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Glaubensdokument contra Geschichtsbuch? : die Schriftlehre Wilhelm Herrmanns
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The treatment presented in the work is especially significant because it is accomplished through the direct application of careful logical thinking and not flung out of a computer as reworked information, so common in this electronically driven information age. The work is a tribute to the human mind and an example of the advantage that the wise ones, the sapiens, still hold over the flawless memories of the electronic ones -- an exquisite example of the ability of the human intellect to raise information to the level of knowledge and, through careful generalization, to elevate knowledge to the level of wisdom. The human triumphs through perfert , selective "forgetting" rather than through perfect memory. Wisdom is achieved through careful documentation, analysis and generalization rather than through flawless recapitulation. Ultimately society and science will be moved more by wisdom than by information. FROM BIOLOGY TO SOCIOPOLITICS is a clear articulation of a remarkable insight by a truly wise man and it is one of the most thought provoking works I have had the pleasure to read.
I read FROM BIOLOGY TO SOCIOPOLITICS on the heals of reading some works by Amartya Sen who wrote extensively on the role of "entitlement" as the social glue derived from government and creating a mutual need for induvidual success at all social levels. Sen was impressed with the lack of famine in democratic societies and his perception of of mutual needs or entitlements in those societies was a remarkable insight. It won the Nobel Prize. Herrmann's insight strikes me as no less remarkable.