"People will want artists to return them to certain periods. They will suffer what I call hyper-nostalgia as they look back to a time when people talked robustly about ideas like democracy."
"These Mimeses use look-a-likes of celebrities and public figures to create a photographic or filmic image, which challenges the observers' perception of reality by creating a false reality."
“Initially when we hook up this brain to a flight simulator, it doesn’t know how to control the aircraft,” "The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds or thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the processing power o
"If children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would never truly grow up."
"I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."
"First, the infectious organism isn't a bacterium or virus at all--it's a cancer cell that originated in a Tasmanian devil, and then took on a life of its own as a distinct pathogen, transmitted between animals..."
"The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students [...] the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger..."
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