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John Horgan describes humanity as “matter that yearns to matter.”1
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question)
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
“science is not a collection of truths,” but rather “a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
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I’m sympathetic to Horgan’s claim that there’s something rotten in the state of science, I can get on board with the idea that our scientific luminaries are a bunch of asses and buffoons, and I’m even open to the possibility that large swaths of supposed scientific activity have basically become interpretative dance.