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We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

~Michael Shermer

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For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

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The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

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In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

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Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

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The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Writer

Born: September 8th, 1954

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