Care bill and the political stories this week. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the u. S. Economy is showing signs of rebounding, after a lackluster first quarter. The Labor Department reports that employers added a net of 211,000 jobs in april, up sharply from the month of march. The Unemployment Rate for april fell to 4. 4 , a nearly 10year low. The strong showing could increase odds that the Federal Reserve will raise Interest Rates again next month. In somalia a u. S. Navy seal has been killed in a raid on the islamist m
Care bill and the political stories this week. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the u. S. Economy is showing signs of rebounding, after a lackluster first quarter. The Labor Department reports that employers added a net of 211,000 jobs in april, up sharply from the month of march. The Unemployment Rate for april fell to 4. 4 , a nearly 10year low. The strong showing could increase odds that the Federal Reserve will raise Interest Rates again next month. In somalia a u. S. Navy seal has been killed in a raid on the islamist m
Stories this week. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the u. S. Economy is showing signs of rebounding, after a lackluster first quarter. The Labor Department reports that employers added a net of 211,000 jobs in april, up sharply from the month of march. The Unemployment Rate for april fell to 4. 4 , a nearly 10year low. The strong showing could increase odds that the Federal Reserve will raise Interest Rates again next month. In somalia a u. S. Navy seal has been killed in a raid on the islamist militant group, al shabaab. I
Speak further on the relationship of false consciousness to consciousness. You alluded to that. I wonder if you could speak briefly on the qualifying word quasi when you corrected yourself from saying evolutionary processes in the brain to cause the evolutionary process is in the brain. There is a lovely book by Peter Godfrey smith, darwinian populations and Natural Selection. That is the title, where he introduces some elegant diagrams which let you see in addition to the pure cases of Natural Selection, the sort of parade cases of Natural Selection, there are lots of processes which are like Natural Selection in one or two or three features but are not classic cases. The development of the nervous system in the individual brain is very much a matter of generation, lots of extra neurons which compete and only some of them get to survive and populate the region and the rest are absorbed and lead to another generation. The very building of a brain is the clause i evolutionary process. O
I think that that signs up his view of it. He writes about technology and culture. The guardian, the new republic, mit tech review and his work has been included in the science and nature writing. I cannot note that in his biohe also says in the early 1980s he was a founding number of the universally unnoticed group and i want to give you sense up behind the stage banter that we were having. These guys all know each other they say that he and neck have been disagreeing for more than a decade. And he also describes it as a walking bummer. [laughter] there is no pessimism in davids view. Antiis a bit more moderated and then we will hear the doom and gloom area and david, start us off, he is the author of enchanted objects. I want to show you an image of my living room. Its a couple of minutes and that will illustrate many of the products that i talked about in the book. Enchanted objects have the same functionality as before except for now they can talk. These are ordinary things and hav