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Susan Blackmore’s
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.
Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion
Young brains are designed to explore; old brains are designed to exploit.
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
The more we learn about the brain the less room there is for consciousness to play a role.
Susan Blackmore • Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Novelty emerges from an individual mind, when it is judged by a committee, orthodoxy will usually prevail.
Hand Eysenck • Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 12)
One thing that always seems to happen with such projects is that, after they achieve their intended aim, if the ‘evolutionary’ program is allowed to run further it produces no further improvements.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
Just over a year ago, on a visit to one of the world’s most prestigious research institutes, I challenged researchers there to account for intelligent human behaviour without reference to any aspect of the IP metaphor. They couldn’t do it
Robert Epstein • Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
