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"Evolutionary neurobiology. Joseph Ledoux is the student of Michael Gazzaniga who was the student of Roger Sperry and worked on the famous split-brain experiments. I read about these in Koch’s book earlier this year and thought it would be cool to read a book from the academic lineage of such revolutionary work into consciousness. So far it has inspired me to learn more about cellular biochemistry, please give recs!" — Oct 02, 2020 08:52PM
"Evolutionary neurobiology. Joseph Ledoux is the student of Michael Gazzaniga who was the student of Roger Sperry and worked on the famous split-brain experiments. I read about these in Koch’s book earlier this year and thought it would be cool to read a book from the academic lineage of such revolutionary work into consciousness. So far it has inspired me to learn more about cellular biochemistry, please give recs!" — Oct 02, 2020 08:52PM
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"Only 2 chapters in so far. He does a good job of explaining computer architecture concepts with clear examples and analogies to a "file clerk" model which allow the reader to get an intuitive understanding of the CPU's tasks and organization." — Jun 16, 2020 09:17AM
"Only 2 chapters in so far. He does a good job of explaining computer architecture concepts with clear examples and analogies to a "file clerk" model which allow the reader to get an intuitive understanding of the CPU's tasks and organization." — Jun 16, 2020 09:17AM
“Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free, he'd become a slave to that point and his life would be governed by completely new criteria: the criteria of slavery. Like an animal, the point of whose life is that life itself, the continuation of the species.
An animal carries out its slavish activities because it can feel the point of its life instinctively. Therefore its sphere is restricted. Man, on the other hand, claims to aspire to the absolute.”
― Journal 1970-1986
An animal carries out its slavish activities because it can feel the point of its life instinctively. Therefore its sphere is restricted. Man, on the other hand, claims to aspire to the absolute.”
― Journal 1970-1986
“Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.”
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“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
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On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
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“Tariq snapped the magazine back into his handgun.
"Do you have it in you?" Laila said.
"To what?"
"To use this thing. To kill with it."
Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said.
"I'd kill with it for you, Laila.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
"Do you have it in you?" Laila said.
"To what?"
"To use this thing. To kill with it."
Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said.
"I'd kill with it for you, Laila.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“He dabbed at his tuxedo with a damp rag, and the fungi came away easily. "Hate to do this, Bill," he said of the fungi he was murdering. "Fungi have as much right to life as I do. they know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore."
Then he thought about what Bill himself might want. It was easy to guess. "Bill," he said, "I like you so much, and I am such a big shot in the Universe, that I will make your three biggest wishes come true." He opened the door of the cage, something Bill couldn't have done in a thousand years.
Bill flew over to the windowsill. He put his little shoulder against the glass. there was just one layer of glass between Bill and the great out-of-doors. Although Trough was in the storm window business, he had no storm windows on his own abode.
"Your second wish is about to come true," said Trout, and he again did something which Bill could never have done. he opened the window. But the opening of the window was such an alarming business to the parakeet that he flew back to his cage and hopped inside.
Trout closed the door of the cage and latched it. "That's the most intelligent use of three wishes I ever heard of," he told the bird. "You made sure you'd still have something worth wishing for--to get out of the cage.”
― Breakfast of Champions
Then he thought about what Bill himself might want. It was easy to guess. "Bill," he said, "I like you so much, and I am such a big shot in the Universe, that I will make your three biggest wishes come true." He opened the door of the cage, something Bill couldn't have done in a thousand years.
Bill flew over to the windowsill. He put his little shoulder against the glass. there was just one layer of glass between Bill and the great out-of-doors. Although Trough was in the storm window business, he had no storm windows on his own abode.
"Your second wish is about to come true," said Trout, and he again did something which Bill could never have done. he opened the window. But the opening of the window was such an alarming business to the parakeet that he flew back to his cage and hopped inside.
Trout closed the door of the cage and latched it. "That's the most intelligent use of three wishes I ever heard of," he told the bird. "You made sure you'd still have something worth wishing for--to get out of the cage.”
― Breakfast of Champions
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