Sublime

Earlier we heard Sherlock Holmes present the axiom of emergence: while individuals remain puzzles, man in the aggregate “becomes a mathematical certainty.”

search for always newer ways to conceive the world. Its strength lies not in the certainties it reaches but in a radical awareness of the vastness of our ignorance. This awareness allows us to keep questioning our own knowledge, and, thus, to continue learning. Therefore the scientific quest for knowledge is not nourished by certainty, it is nouris

I believe that this mysterious programmer of the brain is the true locus of human consciousness. In other words, consciousness is the creator of our brain activity, not the other way around.

De surcroît, alors que la guerre nucléaire et le changement climatique menacent uniquement la survie physique de l’humanité, des technologies de rupture pourraient changer la nature même de l’humanité et sont donc enchevêtrées avec les croyances éthiques et religieuses les plus profondes des êtres humains.

What remains truly novel is typically “hidden,” “obscure,” and “concealed” because it is troubling: the dirty secrets and the lies. They are hardly timid about sussing these out.