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He could construct complex equations, but more important, he knew that math is the language nature uses to describe her wonders.
Walter Isaacson • Einstein: His Life and Universe
Life is matter with intentionality.
Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
Philip Ball • We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology | Aeon Essays
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett,
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
In their sense of ‘I’. And what is that self? What form does it take? One way of thinking of it, as offered by the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, is as a looping pattern of abstractions. Our personality may be the most real thing in the world to each of us, but it is a fiction, a configuration, a way of thinking. It isn’t found in the meat
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Principle of Self-Understanding.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Here is one of the great Wallace innovations: the revelatory power of freakishly thorough noticing, of corralling and controlling detail.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Richard Feynman once wrote, “If you ever hear yourself saying, ‘I think I understand this,’ that means you don’t.”