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Francisco Varela, an experimental and theoretical biologist, studied what he termed "emergent selves" or "virtual identities." His was an immanent view of reality, based on metaphors derived from self-organization and Buddhist-inspired epistemology rather than on those derived from engineering and information science.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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John Brockman
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February 16, 1941
(age 83)
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John Brockman is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature.
Known for:
The Third Culture (1995)
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? (2007)
What We Believe But Cannot Prove (2006)
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