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Think of dissipative adaptation as a randomly fluctuating system “getting stuck” in the most stable states serially.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. —Erwin Schrödinger
Brian McDonald • The Golden Theme
As soon as you judge, you collapse the wave function, and the wave function represents all possibility outside the domain of time and space.
Melissa Joy Jonsson • The Physics of Miracles
THE MACHINE BEGINS TO SELF-DESTRUCT
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
as science digs deeper into the innermost realities of the universe, objective truth seems to break down. The concept in quantum mechanics that particles can behave as either particles or waves, depending on how they are observed, reveals a mixed metaphor hidden at the centre of our physical world.
Laurence Scott • Picnic Comma Lightning: The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century
(The original Latin word for ‘decide’, decidere, means ‘to cut off’, as in slicing away alternatives;
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
abruptly move from a static fixed point to chaotic oscillations. The oscillations don’t start out small and get bigger; when they appear, they are full size. This is a good example of what in physics is called a phase transition, in which a system suddenly changes from one state to another.
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
tends to increase over time. Entropy is often roughly defined as the disorderliness or disorganization of a system—a
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
The fractured mind wants endless bits and it strips you of your executive function. Protect the reserves of intent.