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Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Popova describes herself as an “interestingness hunter-gatherer” and she writes Brain Pickings, one of the most popular
Rohit Bhargava • Non-Obvious 2017: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict The Future
McClintock, Prusiner, and Marshall offered projective thinking, suspending their disbelief regarding scientific views accepted at the time.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
consciousness fundamental in the universe and not a by-product of the brain?
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Brenner was in a thoughtful mood, drinking sherry before dinner at King’s College. When he began working with Crick, less than two decades before, molecular biology did not even have a name. Two decades later, in the 1990s, scientists worldwide would undertake the mapping of the entire human genome: perhaps 20,000 genes, 3 billion base pairs. What
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
In Greg Egan’s Permutation City, digital consciousnesses—Copies—inhabit synthetic worlds built entirely from staged memories and predicted futures. These beings live not by the sequence of experience, but by the logic of memory access. Their agency comes not from consciousness, but from how well they manage retrieval in a world where reality is
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