Howard Bloom Short Quotes

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Individual perception untainted by others' influence does not exist.

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A does not equal A because of location. For example, location in time.

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Aristotle and Heraclitus were both right. A equals A. But A does not equal A.

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Almost every reality you "know" at any given second is a mere ghost held in memory.

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When you repeat an old pattern in a new location, you sometimes make something new.

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The "most extreme" followers of Heraclitus said that it is impossible to fix a name to anything.

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Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem... They work together in teams.

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Through our sentences and paragraphs long-gone ghosts still have their say within the collective mind.

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Where did the second law of thermodynamics come from?... The steam engine.... The cosmos is not a steam engine.

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By 1999, over 880 studies suggested that some mutations might... be genetic alterations "custom tailored" to overcome emergencies.

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Remember a networked learning machine's most basic rule: strengthen the connections to those who succeed, weaken them to those who fail.

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Humor is a conformity enforcer clothed in the garb of congeniality. It focuses on others' weaknesses, disasters, stupiidities, and abnormalities.

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The real core of communication is what information theory's founder, Claude Shannon calls "meaning." And meaning is not covered in information theory.

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Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known.... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

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Reality is a fabrication slapped together by an often bumbling inner team.... The proclamation that "there can be no such thing as an objective fact" has a great deal of validity.

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The first two rules of science are: 1. The truth at any price including the price of your life. 2. Look at things right under your nose as if you've never seen them before, then proceed from there.

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A collective learning machine achieves its feats by using five elements... (1) conformity enforcers; (2) diversity generators; (3) inner-judges; (4) resource shifters; and (5) intergroup tournaments.

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