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Just a moment...
Viewed as a way to understand reality more deeply, suddenly research shifts from something intimidating to something beautiful, this process of slowly feeling the inner workings of the universe come into focus, clicking into place, a blossoming of clarity suffusing, igniting the jungle of neurons traversing my mind, until I can finally see.
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30 Essays to Make You Love Biology
Day 1. "I should have loved biology" by James Somers.
"It was only in college, when I read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, that I came to understand cells as recursively self-modifying programs." https://t.co/XeLSHx4CSm
Human technology is amazing — and I’m talking about everything from fingernail clippers to those AI language models — but it is nothing compared to the machinery of the cell. I mean, it’s not even in the same league: in terms of complexity, miniaturization, efficiency … and most of all resilience. Every human invention is a glass bauble by
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