4 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
20957 | We don't choose our characters, yet we still claim credit for the actions our characters perform [Schelling] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |