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13 9 The Construction of Sensory Universes 9.1. Introduction 9.2. Chemoreception 9.3. Mechanoreception 9.4. Electromagnetoreception 9.5. Information filtering 9.6. Conclusion 9.7. References
14 10 Emotional and Social Forms of Robots 10.1. Introduction 10.2. Communication with social and emotional robots 10.3. Human empathy for machines 10.4. Machine emotions 10.5. Conclusion: risks and benefits 10.6. References
15 11 When Medical Technology Mimics Living Forms 11.1. Introduction 11.2. Historical and epistemological perspective 11.3. Simulation, biomimetics and bioprinting: a future for medical technology 11.4. References
16 12 From Living to Thinking: Mosaic Architecture 12.1. Introduction 12.2. Two main principles 12.3. Genes and cells 12.4. More complex anatomical mosaics 12.5. Epistemological rehabilitation of asexual reproduction 12.6. Social mosaics 12.7. Encephalic mosaics 12.8. Mosaics of thought 12.9. Man-made objects 12.10. Human and animal cultural traits 12.11. A universality of mosaics? 12.12. Conclusion: philosophical foundations 12.13. References
17 13 Converging Technologies or Paradoxes of Power 13.1. Introduction 13.2. Might, domination, power 13.3. Life, technique, power 13.4. “Technological arrogance” 13.5. Technological convergence and singularity 13.6. Innovation, research, invention 13.7. Conclusion 13.8. References
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1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1. Stromatolites dating back 2.5 billion years, observed in the Transva...Figure 1.2. The figure shows changes in the abundance of elements over time, mai...Figure 1.3. Banded Iron Formation (BIF). Courtesy of Pierre Thomas (2011). For a...Figure 1.4. Carbonaceous chondrite. Courtesy of Pierre Thomas (2016). For a colo...Figure 1.5. a) Proliferation of L-Bacillus subtilis. Courtesy of Jeff Errington....
2 Chapter 3Figure 3.1. Contractile proteins (in red) flex the microtubules (9+2) in the cil...Figure 3.2. Action sector of the ventral BMP4 gene. Insects on the left; vertebr...Figure 3.3. A centipede (myriapod) and a velvet worm (onychophora)Figure 3.4. Rear propulsion of tetrapods.1: thrust on the ground; 2: its reactio...Figure 3.5. The transition to an aerial life goes hand in hand with a consolidat...Figure 3.6. h: transverse humerus of the first tetrapods; 1 and 2: muscles balan...Figure 3.7. Transformation of the hyobranchial apparatus. 1: aquatic respiration...
3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1. Experimental creation of analogous forms in On Growth and Form. a) B...Figure 4.2. Illustration of “Julius Wolff’s Law” (1892), always in the spotlight...Figure 4.3. Bird pelvic passage analysis in On Growth and Form
4 Chapter 5Figure 5.1. Evolution of a landscape. Here are four visual representations of th...Figure 5.2. Molecular forms under the landscape. (a) The underside of the epigen...
5 Chapter 6Figure 6.1. Myxococcus xanthus lifecycle (source: Paz-y-Miño-C and Espinosa 2018...Figure 6.2. Transfer of an outer membrane (OM) motility protein from a donor to ...Figure 6.3. Phylogeny based on ssrRNA sequences of Entamoeba clones. The placeme...Figure 6.4. Clone-aggregation preference in mixed cultures of E. histolytica HM-...Figure 6.5. Bacterial multicell-aggregations (source: Paz-y-Miño-C and Espinosa ...Figure 6.6. Dictyostelium lifecycle (source: Paz-y-Miño-C and Espinosa 2018)Figure 6.7. Close-up of the social cycle in Dictyostelium, note the tip epitheli...Figure 6.8. Simulations of equilibrial frequency of cheater cells undergoing clo...
6 Chapter 7Figure 7.1. Form of the gynoecium of the love-in-a-mist flower (Nigella damascen...Figure 7.2. Phyllotaxis of the reproductive organs of some flowering plants at d...Figure 7.3. Diversity of floral forms in angiosperms. Some examples of perianths...Figure 7.4. Diversity of fruits illustrated by some samples kept in the herbariu...
7 Chapter 8Figure 8.1. Mammalian memory organization. The brain structures mentioned are co...
8 Chapter 11Figure 11.1. Our isomorphic epistemic framework for design engineering and the i...
9 Chapter 12Figure 12.1. Schematic presentation of the mosaic complexity model. Units (A) ar...Figure 12.2. Development of the brain in the vertebrate embryo. The vesicle (A) ...
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