things to think about

In which the author outlines the theory of the oceans being the starting points of basic chemistry, and the rise of so-called “replicators” (molecules capable of replicating themselves) through natural selection at the chemical level. According to Dawkins, DNA is the most successful of these replicators, and, over time, evolved ever-more elaborate protective shells for […]

Link to Science Weekly, the interview in question is linked in the second paragraph.
A real mind-blower of an interview (conducted by Susan Blackmore), some proper fireworks-off-in-the-head moments in there. Also, the guy has a fantastic voice that I could quite happily listen to all day.
I’m trying to wrap my head around what exactly he means […]

5:48, Pescovitz:
What’s interesting is that it always seems like the new agers always get a hold of a new or interesting technology, whether it’s psychedelics, whether it’s computers, whether it’s quantum physics and sort of ruin it by layering it with this almost evangelical, holier-than-thou patina on top of the whole thing.
10.49, Rushkoff
At a certain […]

For a while now, I’ve been rather preoccupied with information and how we, as human beings, use, store and process it. By “information”, I don’t necessarily mean bits and bytes or words on a page (though these are certainly useful forms); I’m thinking in more abstract terms, information as units of meaning which could range […]