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The Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
Intelligence is revealed in seeing how to use what one knows already to tackle a problem never, in that precise form, seen before – it is creative
Iain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
“We often seem to be curious,” says Schulz, “about things that aren’t particularly novel—they just puzzle us.”
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
“Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.”
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between experience and theory made him a prime example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, experimental testing, a willingness to question dogma, and the ability to discern patterns across disciplines can lead to great leaps in human understanding.
Walter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
“No man ever steps in the same river twice,”
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
Kurzweil calls himself a “patternist.” He believes consciousness is a pattern of information, a biological configuration of energy and matter that persists over time. It does not reside in the hardware of our brains—the cells and atoms and neurons, which are always changing—but in the computational patterns that make up our sensory systems, our att
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