Sublime

It helped that the simultaneous development of digital technology made it easier for people to accept the idea that we can enter into a cognitive partnership with an object. Smartphones, tablets and the internet all blur the ‘skull and skin’ boundary, and the Australian philosopher Ned Block, according to Chalmers, ‘likes to say that the thesis was

English Victorian version of a Renaissance man, Francis Galton. Galton wore many hats. He was an anthropologist, tropical explorer (Southwest Africa), geographer, sociologist, geneticist, statistician, inventor, meteorologist, and was also considered the father of psychometry,

Maybe the new local news is by intellectual vertical, rather than geographic area.

Traditionally things can be hidden in two fundamentally different ways. Things can be hidden in space, and they can be hidden in time. To hide in space means that phenomena lie beyond the scope of our everyday senses because they are either too small or too distant to be detected without amplification. Things can be hidden in time by being too fast

In the century and a half since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, we still are stymied by the complexity of the biosphere, and, just as with our financial systems, our efforts to intervene have often led to confounding results.

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