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assembly theory, a way of differentiating life from nonlife, not by its chemistry but by its complexity.

Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

realism, or a “realist empiricism.”117

Simon Carnell • Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

Can the emergent properties be deduced from the properties of the components?

Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

Philosophers have sought exhaustive knowledge in one of two ways: either by mastering the general nature of the universe (such as Parmenides, Plotinus, Spinoza, Hegel) or by isolating its smallest constituents (Democritus, Epicurus, Leibniz, Wittgenstein [early]). The former group are monists, the latter group pluralists.

John M. Frame • A History of Western Philosophy and Theology

the three disciplines (Perception, Action, and Will)

Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

On beauty in science: “He’s a very intuitive person,” says Niemi. “He sees the equations, but he sees beyond the equation. He thinks immediately, does this make sense in a wider context? … He smells the equation, if it smells good or not. Or if it has the beauty.”

Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation

inciting reactions—and tracking the evolution of complexity. Because that, Cronin believes, is the entirety of life.

Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

The first citation given concerns the “uniqueness problem,” which emphasizes a result long known by those of us who worked on IIT: that in systems that have mathematically perfectly symmetric interactions (the specifics are complicated, but just imagine this like a geometric shape), IIT gives conflicting answers as to the boundaries of the consciou... See more

Erik Hoel • Ambitious theories of consciousness are not "scientific misinformation"

studying the collective behaviors of heterogeneous systems of many interacting parts is central to their intellectual mission, is typically beyond the scope of current analytic techniques, and is gradually coming to the fore.