“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".”
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David Christian
David Christian, a renowned historian, was born on June 30, 1946. He is best known for his book 'Big History,' which offers a macro perspective on human history, from the Big Bang to the modern era. more