The advancement of learning, and The new Atlantis

Bacon, Francis; Case, Thomas E.

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“…Despite the first observation of the ML phenomenon since 1605 by Francis Bacon, [18] no consensus on its mechanism and rational design principle has merged. [13f,19] Many chemists provides insights into different factors, including molecular structure, intermolecular interactions, molecular packing, chirality, polarity and impurity are thought to play significant role in generating this appealing phenomenon.…”

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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Achiral Molecules Leading to the Formation of Homochiral Superstructures that Exhibit Mechanoluminescence

Liu,

Ye,

Chen

et al. 2024

Angew Chem Int Ed

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Chirality, with its intrinsic symmetry‐breaking feature, is frequently utilized in the creation of acentric crystalline functional materials that exhibit intriguing optoelectronic properties. On the other hand, the development of chiral crystals from achiral molecules offers a solution that bypasses the need for enantiopure motifs, presenting a promising alternative and thereby expanding the possibilities of the self‐assembly toolkit. Nevertheless, the rational design of achiral molecules that prefer spontaneous symmetry breaking during crystallization has so far been obscure. In this study, we present a series of six achiral molecules, demonstrating that when these conformationally flexible molecules adopt a cis‐conformation and engage in multiple non‐covalent interactions along a helical path, they collectively self‐assemble into chiral superstructures consisting of single‐handed supramolecular columns. When these homochiral supramolecular columns align in parallel, they form polar crystals that exhibit intense luminescence upon grinding or scraping. We therefore demonstrate our molecular design strategy could significantly increase the likelihood of symmetry breaking in achiral molecular synthons during self‐assembly, offering a facile access to novel chiral crystalline materials with unique optoelectronic properties.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Achiral Molecules Leading to the Formation of Homochiral Superstructures that Exhibit Mechanoluminescence

Liu,

Ye,

Chen

et al. 2024

Angew Chem Int Ed

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“…his own Organon; there was the sunken Atlantis of Plato, here is his New Atlantis (cf. [5,50]). What Bacon proposes is therefore not "easy to [...] explain": "people will still make sense of things new in themselves in terms which are old."…”

Section: Bacon's Approach and His Program In Philosophy Of Sciencementioning

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“…The notion of knowledge and the notion of power are, indeed, intertwined. 5 The mainstream of present-day concepts of knowledge apparently still remains unimpressed by this idea. Since the beginning of the modern age, the predominant reduction of knowledge to the cognitive and contemplative has been, and still is, barely more than self-stylization and an "ideology" (cf.…”

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“…In the realm of Bacon's epistemology, intervention and representation-in other words: constructivity and reality-are not antagonisms or contradictions. I would tentatively like to call Bacon's epistemology real-constructivism 9 -a term also used by Juha Siltala 5 Krohn [43], Schäfer [67] and others show that it is misleading to ascribe the linear formula "knowledge = power" and its origin to Bacon. In general, according to Bruno Latour, epistemology and politics "go hand in hand."…”

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The Renaissance of Francis Bacon

Schmidt

2011

Nanoethics

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The program of intervening, manipulating, constructing and creating is central to natural and engineering sciences. A renewed wave of interest in this program has emerged within the recent practices and discourse of nano-technoscience. However, it is striking that, framed from the perspective of wellestablished epistemologies, the constructed technoscientific objects and engineered things remain invisible. Their ontological and epistemological status is unclear. The purpose of the present paper is to support present-day approaches to techno-objects ("ontology") insofar as they make these hidden objects epistemologically perceivable. To accomplish this goal, it is inspiring to look back to the origin of the project of modernity and to its founding father: Francis Bacon. The thesis is that everything we need today for an adequate (dialectic-materialist), ontologically well-informed epistemology of technoscience can be found in the works of Bacon-this position will be called epistemological real-constructivism. Rather than describing it as realist or constructivist, empiricist or rationalist, Bacon's position can best be understood as real-constructivist since it challenges modern dichotomies, including the dichotomy between epistemology and ontology. Such real-constructive turn might serve to promote the acknowledgement that natural and engineering sciences, in particular recent technosciences, are creating and producing the world we live in. Reflection upon the contemporary relevance of Bacon is intended as a contribution to the expanding and critical discussion on nano-technoscience.

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“…Long before the emergence of transhumanism proper, Christians viewed technology as a means of perfecting humanity and incorporated it into their vision of divine providence and human salvation. As many scholars have noted, Bacon ([1627] 1951) describes an imaginary Christian community that uses technology to enhance plants, animals, and even humanity in New Atlantis . American theologian Cole‐Turner (2015) sees a clear lineage between contemporary transhumanism and Dante Alighieri coining the verb transhumanar .…”

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Marginalization and Transcendence in Transhumanism and Minjung Theology

Song¹,

Geraci²

2022

Zygon

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The visibility of transhumanism in pop culture reveals its dramatic advance in twenty-first-century life. The more widespread the movement becomes, the more important it is to consider how transhumanism might be made relevant to global humanity. This article orients technological progress by drawing transhumanism into conversation with minjung theology from Korea. Minjung theology offers global tech culture-and its pursuit of technological salvation-an ethical foundation through attention to Han (an emotion specific to those who suffer from individual, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural oppression but have been unable to express it adequately) and the lived reality of those who are often excluded from benefits of technological society. Working in the other direction, transhumanist perspectives on technology offer minjung theology an opportunity to expand its reach through the development of a transcendent theological perspective.

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The advancement of learning, and The new Atlantis

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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Achiral Molecules Leading to the Formation of Homochiral Superstructures that Exhibit Mechanoluminescence

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Achiral Molecules Leading to the Formation of Homochiral Superstructures that Exhibit Mechanoluminescence

The Renaissance of Francis Bacon

Marginalization and Transcendence in Transhumanism and Minjung Theology

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