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Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind

by Russell Powell

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Jun 03, 2025 04:32PM

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order

by David Bohm

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Jul 17, 2024 03:46PM

“What if the purpose of human charity wasn't to protect the weak -- which seems pretty anti-Darwinian anyway -- but to preserve the mad? Don't they get special treatment in most primitive societies?
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You have to be careful about who you do away with. It could be that some part of our understanding comes in vessels incapable of sustaining themselves. What do you think? Maybe you'd have to be crazy to think that.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

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“You think that you can create a history of what has been. Present artifacts. A clutch of letters. A sachet in a dressing table drawer. But that's not what's at the heart of the tale. The problem is that what drives the tale will not survive the tale.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

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“I no longer have an opinion about reality. I used to. Now I dont. The first rule of the world is that everything vanishes forever. To the extent that you refuse to accept that then you are living in a fantasy.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

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“The days are long but the years are short.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

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“You’re the shock absorber. From the Titans’ point of view, you stop the masses from realising the extent of their subjugation. You relieve them of the need to exercise raw financial and political power in the protection of their interests where those interests collide with the law. But…you also protect ordinary humans from the consequences of that subjugation as best you can. Yours is an equivocal profession. But I hear you’re not entirely an asshole.”
― Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir

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