“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make sense of our purpose in the universe, asking questions that science cannot answer. And yet, our sense of… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of a species can slowly change so as to ensure that each individual member can extract from its surroundings the energy needed to maintain its complex structures. This is what natural selection is all about. But it’s… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share
“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make sense of… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
“Emergent properties can seem magical because they do not seem to arise from the component parts of a structure. [...] Thought [...] seems to… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
“Without knowing the full extent of the past, we have no idea whether the events we can see are typical of larger patterns or simply contingent products of particular eras, societies, or conjunctures. A statistician might say that the sample from which historians generalize is seriously skewed for the simple reason that we have no idea how or by how… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share
“The key shortcoming of the multiverse theory, however, is that it appeals to something outside the universe, namely, a vast ensemble of other universes… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
“Indeed, we humans bear witness to the process of evolution in the very composition of our bodies. The calcium that gives solidity to our… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
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