Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
By altering the ingredients of the idea menu they are exposed to, we might, in turn, minimize the dangerous inputs to the processes of belief and network updating.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
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So, both human knowledge and biological adaptations are abstract replicators: forms of information which, once they are embodied in a suitable physical system, tend to remain so while most variants of them do not.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The real conflict in the oasis was not between the Jews and Arabs, but among the Arabs themselves, and more specifically between its two largest Arab tribes: the Aws and the Khazraj, the tribe that had originally invited Muhammad and his followers to Yathrib.
Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Bernhard Palsson, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, has overseen the construction of a model of E. coli’s metabolism.