We Have To Get Better At Believing

The Way To Build A Complex System That Works Is To Build It From Very Simple Systems That Work.

Species Go Extinct Because There Are Historical Contraints Built Into A Given Body Or A Given Design.

Each Organism's Environment, For The Most Part, Consists Of Other Organisms.

A Brain Is A Society Of Very Small, Simple Modules That Cannot Be Said To Be Thinking, That Are Not Smart In Themselves. But When You Have A Network Of Them Together, Out Of That Arises A Kind Of Smartness.

A Single Thread Of Self Generation Ties The Cosmos, The Bios, And The Technos Together Into One Creation. Humans Are Not The Culmination Of This Trajectory But An Intermediary, Smack In The Middle Between The Born And The Made... The Arc Of Complexity And Open-ended Creation In The Last Four Billion Years Is Nothing Compared To What Lies Ahead.