Daydreaming Idly
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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”Until now, the conventional wisdom on the social evolution of humans has focused on the growth and development of the brain, not on the existence of a social gene or set of such genes that may have spring-loaded humans for civilization—or for altruism. Yet Wilson and his co-authors imply that such genes very likely exist.
E. O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything - Magazine - The Atlantic
This guy has long been one of my favorite scientists and thinkers. This article is well worth the read for anyone interested not only in biology, but also in how scientific ideas come about, get argued, and have the ability to shape our understanding of our own nature. E. O. Wilson has done this before. His latest idea is a challenge to the theory of kin selection. Enjoy.
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