The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
The main thing I keep coming back to is that nothing flourishes in isolation. Neurons first evolved around the same time that animals started eating each other: that is to say, the fact that we have thought at all emerges from an evolutionary necessity to be aware of the presence of other animals. That doesn’t mean intelligence has its origins in h... See more
Dark Properties – A quest to dig up bright ideas across shared ...
Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Br... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
As scientist and writer Carl Sagan explains in The Demon Haunted World, A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry. At least some of the mysteries of today will be comprehensively solved by our descendants. The fact that we ca
... See moreRhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
What if the emergence of life was the inevitable result of a universe that naturally and ceaselessly generates complexity and information? If that were the case, it would be more accurate to describe life as a regularity rather than an anomaly—not a fluke but an imperative.