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The fifth element needed to form a nucleotide is phosphorus, which would need to come from phosphate-rich terrestrial rocks called apatites or from extraterrestrial meteors bombarding the earth.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
A single atom is an inscrutable universe of unknowns, despite all of our progress. High-energy physics has only scratched the surface of this mystery, and everything we have learned thus far has been an endless series of counterintuitive surprises.
Bernardo Kastrup • The Daimon and the Soul of the West
Alfred wonders if pranic globules, which are more visible on sunny days, might be a form of energy exuded from the corona of an invisible sun composed of dark matter.
Melissa Joy Jonsson • The Physics of Miracles
Which came first, the neuron or the feeling? What was the universe like before there were any living beings around to observe it? Does it feel like anything to be a mushroom, or a bee, or a rock? What happens to your subjectivity when you die?
I’m not sure we’ll ever know. But I do know that life gets richer when you contemplate that either one of t
... See morePerhaps this is the Overmind of the species, or a kind of “mind of the planet,” or perhaps we have been parochial in our search for nonhuman intelligence, and another minded, but radically different, intelligent species shares the earth with us. I offer these ideas in a speculative vein.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Aristoteles evrendeki maddelerin hepsinin 4 temel elementten oluştuğuna inanırdı: Toprak, hava, ateş ve su. Bu elementleri de iki kuvvet etkiliyordu: Ağırlık toprağın ve suyun batma eğilimi, hafiflikse havanın ve ateşin yükselme eğilimiydi. Evrenin içeriğinin madde ve kuvvetler olarak ikiye ayrılması günümüzde de yaygınlığını koruyor.
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As science becomes more unified, it is to be hoped that we can explain consciousness as well as idealized physical situations, following the current threads of quantum mechanics that have made it clear that the observer’s decisions are closely linked to the evolution of physical systems.
Robert Lanza • Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
We have these qualities and these capacities that transcend the physical description. They emerge from the physical description, we don’t need anything else but the physics, but because of how we are configured and how organized we’ve become through evolution by natural selection, our minds can reach to the farthest edges of the cosmos and, in some
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