Sublime

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter

Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. This was not

Phi has also been characterized by Koch as a measure of uncertainty reduction, so phi must in some way reflect the amount of knowledge the system has about its environment. As also explained in Chapter Eight, phi can be seen as an entropy measure, or a measure of the number of mental states that are potentially accessible to the agent.

Physics basically says we’ll understand the universe because we’re going to extremize a function. That’s what physics does—optimization, some least-action principles. So, we’re going to minimize the time, we’ll minimize the energy, we’ll minimize the distance. We’re looking for those functions that we’re trying to extremize and we’re going to repre

elaborated upon by Dr. Kelly: “Few working psychologists and neuroscientists, let alone the public at large, have any conception of the fundamental significance of quantum theory. Classical concepts and approximations are often sufficient to support the concerns of the special physical sciences, and quantum