Pattern Matching Quotes by Peter Watts

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• Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
• Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management…
• But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.
• Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry…
• Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down…
• Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to…
• What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?
• What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

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