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So we have reached a paradox: The commitment to a totally scientific view of the world has led to theories that may be unscientific, according to Popper’s definition of science. In a sense, the miracle believers and the miracle nonbelievers have found a bit of common ground. This is not to say that the transcendent experience of miraculous phenomen
... See moreAlan Lightman • Where Science and Miracles Meet
Every progress in science in the last decades, from the moment it was absorbed into technology and thus introduced into the factual world where we live our everyday lives, has brought with it a veritable avalanche of fabulous instruments and ever more ingenious machinery. All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
Here’s Kevin Kelly, futurist and Wired founder and brilliant, brilliant man, pondering the future of the book: Over the next century, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a conc... See more
The Marginalian • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Everything in the Universe, From Wandering Turtles to Falling Rocks, Is Surrounded by ‘Fields’ That Guide and Direct Movement
Daniel W McSheaaeon.co
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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