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Sep 26, 2014 01:42AM

“In short, given continuous spacetime, there are a second-order infinity of possible histories of the biosphere.”
― Stuart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

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“But Laplace’s particles in motion allow only happenings. There are no meanings, no values, no doings.”
― Stuart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

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“And to come back to the economy for a moment, the lifetime distribution of firms is also a power law. Now”
― Stuart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

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“Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.”
― Stuart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

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“This web of life, the most complex system we know of in the universe, breaks no law of physics, yet is partially lawless, ceaselessly creative.”
― Stuart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

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