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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom -
Isaac Asimov
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark,
The chances of success may hinge on our understanding of the possible diversity of the chemical basis of life itself: “otherness” not among DNA-encoded species but among life-forms using different molecules to encode traits.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
think of all the environments and tools he needed to piece it together:
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
If information was like entropy, then it could not be conserved—or contained.
John Brockman • Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The great biologist D’Arcy Thompson once said: “Everything is the way it is because it got that way.” If he is right—if everything is the way it is because it got that way—then every science must be, in part, a historical science.
John Brockman • Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution (Best of Edge Series)
consciousness does not simply observe the universe. We create it, and we do so not just singly but collectively.