Infinity Imagined

2012/09/27

A photograph of the Saturn and its rings, taken by the Cassini spacecraft from inside the planet’s shadow. Earth is visible in the upper right as a small dot between rings. (High Res)

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Milky Way Galaxy

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Sandbanks in the straight of Gibraltar, photographed from the International Space Station.

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2012/09/27

Bonobo - The Plug (Quantic Mix)

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2012/09/26

“ Holism is colloquially summarized as “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” […] Hence, I think that the scientific concept that would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit is holism: the abiding recognition that wholes have properties not present in the parts and not reducible to the study of the parts.

For example, carbon atoms have particular, knowable physical and chemical properties. But the atoms can be combined in different ways to make, say, graphite or diamonds. The properties of those substances—properties such as darkness and softness and clearness and hardness—are properties not of the carbon atoms but rather of the collection of carbon atoms. Moreover, which particular properties the collection of atoms has depends entirely on how they are assembled—into sheets or pyramids. The properties arise because of the connections between the parts. Grasping this insight is crucial for a proper scientific perspective on the world. You could know everything about isolated neurons and be unable to say how memory works or where desire originates.

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2012/09/25

“ For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

2012/09/24

“ Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

2012/09/23

“ I do not see how one is supposed to divide up the world objectively so that one can make statements about parts.

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