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But to this notion of bloodletting and the material transmutation of forms there corresponds an idea of purification. It has to do with isolating the very essence of any sensual ecstasy experienced momentarily and individually by the ...more
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John Brockman
“Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.”
John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

John Brockman
“Human beings are impossibly complex tarballs of muscle, blood, bone, breath, and electrical pulses that travel through nerves and neurons; we are bundles of electrical pulses carrying payloads, pings hitting servers. And our identities are inextricably connected to our environments: No story can be told without a setting.”
John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

John Brockman
“Human achievement is based on collective intelligence—the nodes in the human neural network are people themselves. By each doing one thing and getting good at it, then sharing and combining the results through exchange, people become capable of doing things they do not even understand.”
John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

Anne Lamott
“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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