The bias of any human in general, as is in every group of civilised union, is tolerable only as long as either they openly reveal. whether they stand with the Kauravas or Pandavas. Aravindan always had a kind of bias towards Indian vedic concepts , even in TV shows like Neeya Naana, along with GOPI. There is nothing wrong in weighing the contents , neutrally; but, perceiving with the red shift eyes, matters of anti-bias to self, in a cluster of words,using the podium of the seas, is action beyond the reasonable outlooks. Today I happen to see Aravindan in Swarajya ( I don't know why Mr Sekar omitted it as a reading subscriber) encouraging Darwin and slandering attributes , on removing the Darwin, from the 10th std syllabus, that too, temporarily, on account of loads; even if removed permanently, it is our prerogative and without any truth which Aravindan justified, should not have written casting shadows. Now His article; 2 you tube lists of scientists who oppose Darwin (this is for Mr G in our group also) ; 3 and my reply as comment in swarajya. KR IRS 4 5 23 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Bring Back 'Evolution' In Class 10 Textbook: It Is Too Important And More Common Than You Think* by*Aravindan Neelakandan* <https://swarajyamag.com/author/17508/aravindan-neelakandan>*-Thursday, May 4, 2023 12:57 AM IST* Charles Darwin - *Removing Darwin from the tenth standard syllabus is like not teaching children that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system.* The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras brings out an excellent bi-monthly technology magazine '*Shaastra*'. In its March-April 2023 issue, Dr K.Vijayraghavan, one of India's finest biologists and former Principle Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, has written a guest column - '*Wiring the Fly*'. The article deals with 'connectome', *a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain and how they are *connected in an organism. So far, we have studied the connectomes of very simple animals - in only three species. Dr Vijayaraghavan wrote about a recent major advancement where a connectome of a larva of a fruit fly, 3016 neurons and 5,48,000 connections, has been successfully studied. The fruit fly is the most favoured of insects by biologists. Incidentally, it was through experiments with fruit flies that the chromosomal theory of inheritance was proved famously by Thomas Hunt Morgan. Morgan was even called the fruit fly scientist, and his student Alfred Sturtevant prepared the first genetic map - a great achievement in the history of science. >From the studies of fruit flies, a universal understanding of the process of inheritance down to the level of chromosomes was obtained. And now, the study of the connectome of the larvae of the fruit fly pointed out the following in its conclusion: *As more brain connectomes of other organisms are mapped in the future, comparisons between them will reveal both common and therefore potentially optimal circuit architectures, as well as the idiosyncratic ones that underlie behavioral differences between organisms. Some of the architectural features observed in the Drosophila larval brain, including multilayer shortcuts and prominent nested recurrent loops, are found in state-of-the-art artificial neural networks, where they can compensate for a lack of network depth and support arbitrary, task-dependent computations. * Michael Winding et al. ,The connectome of an insect brain.Science379,eadd9330(2023) At the end of his guest column, the biologist wrote quoting Darwin from his recapitulation in The *Origin of Species*: "*As Charles Darwin said "... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved. " And each one teaches us about the other*". This universality that underlies the multiplicity of life is a fundamental law of nature. Darwin unveiled it in biology by uncovering the main (but not the only) process underlying this relation between unity and multiplicity. Darwin discovered natural selection in the realm of the biosphere. But as philosopher Daniel Dennett says, it is an algorithmic process. It has substrate neutrality. It has process uniformity. What do we mean by that? In a rough way, we can explain it like this. If we find life forms that are not carbon-based on another planet, and it has replicators with variations arising, then there will be natural selection, there on that alien planet as well. So natural selection works on any planet in any galaxy where life exists with reproduction and hereditary processes. Not just in exobiology. Even in advanced physics, we have what is called quantum Darwinism. Remember Schrodinger's cat, with a dead cat and a live cat superimposed? Wojciech Zurek, a theoretical physicist, proposes that a process analogous to natural selection may be at work 'selecting' the more stable quantum mechanical state and from there emerges the classical world of our experience. Similarly, in art and aesthetics. A Darwinian understanding of sexual selection processes in non-human animals may help us to understand and appreciate the techniques that artists may be employing in making the art appeal to us. Neurobiologist V.S. Ramachandran points out in his papers, books and lectures how we share the neurological basis of our aesthetic experience across the phylogenetic tree. So on and so forth we can go on. In religion, there is a natural selection of beliefs. In politics, there is natural selection. And one should remember when Darwinian science talks about survival of the fittest, what it means is the survival of the most adapting organism. It is not about rigidity. It is about flexibility. The organism that adapts to its environment in the most efficient way survives. So today, there is no field that can exclude the knowledge of natural selection - that is, if one wants to create innovatively and contribute to the advancement of knowledge. That is why the explanation given by the Union Minister that evolution has been removed only from the tenth standard and is there in the twelfth standard textbooks is weak. Class ten is the last schooling year where all the students, irrespective of the elective they choose, study a common science syllabus. Removing Darwin from the tenth standard syllabus would deny the students the right to understand evolution. It is like denying a student the right to know the heliocentric theory. It may or may not be useful for a child, in their future career, to know whether the sun revolves around the earth. But denying the learning of this fact surely deprives the child of he or she being part of the enlightened human civilisation of today. The same is true for evolution. Making a student come out of his or her secondary school without knowing evolution is a denial of human rights. What is amusing is the fact that the opposition political parties, which usually protest over the change of even one word in history with respect to the Mughals, are completely silent in this matter. After all, these are the parties which raised a hue and cry opposing the change of religious belief based 'BC and AD' into secular 'BCE and CE'. The issue has exposed that the so-called secularism in India is only proto-Islamism and pro-evangelism. It is definitely not positive science-minded secularism. There is also hypocrisy in the protests. In India, evolution, when taught, is often relegated to one of the last lessons. Teachers usually neglect it. It is not an overarching framework in the syllabus as it should have been taught. One wishes the protesting scientists today have taken care to look into this serious lapse of yesteryears also. That brings us to the question of what the present Government can do. This Government has an ideological orientation towards decolonisation. Decolonising means making the science curriculum more dynamic. For that, it can, for the first time in the world, create a separate textbook for evolution through natural selection and introduce it right from class eight to class ten. Here the students will learn about evolution and natural selection. They will understand how to observe nature for patterns of selection. They will understand how natural selection operates at different levels. It will make them more creative and innovative. Is the Centre listening? Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.” https://youtu.be/xQgOjHsMEeE Darwin theory opposed video by the scientists. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rajaram Krishnamurthy Just Now MR Aravindan Neelakantan speaks about western knowledge so vociferously. Then why such knowledge, unlike or like that of Darwin, available here is not supposed to be injected, as a natural selection? Anyway, Aravindan Neelakantan agreed that, both SUN at center as well as Darwin are not going to be useful, for the people in majority, in the future. So why worry? If I rob another man's wife is also my natural selection sir. Also the 2nd theory of Darwin is also satisfied. But you name that as brutal. So, the terms NATURAL and MIGHT of Darwin, is a BAMMATHU VELAI. (Balakumaran). If a dog could become a horse did the dog choose anything? If the veppam seed fell on the earth and another tree grew, is it its' natural selection, because you say, even in politics there is? The common features in a few or more species, might be a kind of architectural blueprint, but can it be said that, it wants to choose what it wishes to become? Or after Darwin infused the term, it chose to reform? Darwin is dropped by the world and so please as an elite and erudite, please refrain from NATURALLY SELECTING one group sir K Rajaram IRS 4 5 23 From USA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx K RAJARAM IRS 4 5 23 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopk_toV2SWa5wSbgR7%3DfiKMxQFqgZAWa7LcKk%2BwXixUeA%40mail.gmail.com.
