What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
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