Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big Hi... A source page for quotes linked to David Christian. 0 quotes
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“Деякі види настільки зневажають мозок, що ставляться до нього, як до одноразової розкоші. В одного виду морських слимаків замолоду є якийсь невеликий мозок. Вони користуються ним, поки плавають по морях, шукаючи укриття, де б можна було постійно отримувати їжу з води. Щойно таке укриття знаходиться, це дороге в обслуговуванні обладнання їм більше не потрібне і... вони його зʼїдають. (Дехто доволі жорстко пожартував, що це трохи нагадує академіків на безстроковому контракті).” MindBrainEvolutionAcademic Career Book:Origin Story: A Big History of Everything Source: Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
“...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.” WaySeemsSchoolTeachResearchAccountsUniversityOfferingIncapableFragmentsInstituteUnifiedDisconnectedInstitutes Book:Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History Source: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
“I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".” WayMayMadeBitsKnownEnvironmentPiecesPropertyComplexesEntityArrangementsPreciseArrangingBits And Pieces Author:David Christian
“Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.” ModernCreationAccountsMythMapsCreation Myths Book:Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History Source: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History