Believing that technology is ruining our ability to think and feel like humans and fearing other ill-effects of technology, Vee-radicators are dedicated to the elimination of all technological devices (vee-coms, vee-sets, vee-pads, etc.) from Icaria. They particularly seek to eradicate all veemelds, who they consider machine-people and traitors to humanity.
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Bibliography & Recommended Reading
The following references were consulted and several used in this novel. I recommend them for further reading on the various topics explored in “Darwin’s Paradox”. These include the areas of ecosystem behavior and sustainability; viruses, human neurophysiology, co-evolution and symbiosis; chaos theory, and fractal geometry.
Ecosystem and Human Behavior, Evolution & Sustainability
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Human Neurophysiology and the Human Mind
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Viruses, Co-evolution and Autopoiesis
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Chaos Theory, Fractal Geometry & Spontaneous Order
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