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Modern physics has indicated that our understanding of material phenomena is limited to some extent by the questions we ask of it.

Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur • The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Andy Coravos: When people ask what you do, they really seem to be asking who you are, putting the attention on people’s credentials within institutions (the nouns) rather than on their actions and contributions (how they live, work, and cultivate knowledge in their fields). Expertise is equated with the former, when it should be more about the latt... See more

future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future

An “Omics” Answer to the Replication Crisis

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By altering the ingredients of the idea menu they are exposed to, we might, in turn, minimize the dangerous inputs to the processes of belief and network updating.

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

emergent phenomena, ergodicity, radical uncertainty, and computational irreducibility.

Richard Bookstaber • The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction

His idea was to take physics beyond its age-old dualism of laws versus conditions, of evolution versus creation.

Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

paleontology,

Eugene V. Koonin • The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (FT Press Science)

Sota Yamashita

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Nature’s laws do not change very much. So long as the store of human knowledge continues to expand, as it has since Gutenberg’s printing press, we will slowly come to a better understanding of nature’s signals, if never all its secrets. And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about bec