Sublime

the notebooks do provide a pretty good snapshot of a creative brain moving very fast, while serving as an instrument of grounding and refinement.

We can see that the ancient idea that living matter has special physical properties was almost true: it is not living matter but knowledge-bearing matter that is physically special. Within one universe it looks irregular; across universes it has a regular structure, like a crystal in the multiverse.

When Donald Trump claimed that he used his own money to finance his primary campaign, he was really declaring, to the chagrin of his party leadership, that he was not to be part of Washington’s massive network of intertwining patron–client relationships.

On the contrary, mathematics molds itself into a preexisting, innate representation of numerical quantities, which it then extends and refines.

The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.

Três ideias profundamente desestabilizadoras ricochetearam por todo o século XX e se dividiram em três partes desiguais: o átomo, o byte e o gene.

Turns out Chalmers went on to become a leading disrupter in consciousness research.