Sublime
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we are riders on planet Earth, not gods acting from the heavens. We are agents within a constantly changing universe.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
These are worlds that will be revealed not by better instruments but by new models and frameworks that allow us to see the familiar world in unfamiliar ways—to transform domains described into domains rigorously quantified and observations informally sensed into those formally understood.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The unknowable became the unknown, opening the Universe to scrutiny and analysis,
Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
the whole seems to take on a life of its own, almost dissociated from the specific characteristics of its individual building blocks.
Geoffrey West • Scale
Talking with local cosmology friends,
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
providing the very reason for our existence as the agents through which the universe would know itself.