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CLONAL ELMS. “As a genus they have given up sex, and the trees spread by putting out suckers. In normal circumstances this means that if elms are cut down (or blown up as they were in Flanders in the First World War) they re-grow from shoots below ground. By this means a stand of elms may live for many hundreds of years. But the elm’s dependency on cloning for renewal also makes them vulnerable to sickness.” https://lnkd.in/eSunuQVx View in LinkedIn

“FAR OUT in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe). https://lnkd.in/ei-_8xs6 View in LinkedIn

EVERYTHING IS DEFINED. “By rephrasing it in that way we see that Boole is implying that there are no things which have no properties, no definition. ie: Things which have no definition do not exist. And since these definitions come from minds, it means that everything is mind-dependent.” https://www.quora.com/Does-everything-in-the-universe-connect?redirect_to_mweb=1 View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION. “That means every given thing must have a consistent definition (a definition which doesn't contradict itself), and that thing must be defined in contrast to something else (otherwise it wouldn't be a given thing, it would be the entire universe).” https://www.quora.com/Does-everything-in-the-universe-connect?redirect_to_mweb=1 View in LinkedIn

RESTATED. “This might sound obvious but we realize something profound if we rephrase it slightly. Being identical to itself means having the same properties, and being different from something else means having different properties, and the set of properties which apply to a given thing are determined by the definition of the thing.” https://www.quora.com/Does-everything-in-the-universe-connect?redirect_to_mweb=1 View in LinkedIn

BOOLEAN LOGIC. “You're asking if every thing in the universe connects. George Boole (creator of Boolean Logic) stated that any given thing must be identical to itself (if not it would be a different thing), and also it must be different from another thing (if not it would be the self-same thing).” https://www.quora.com/Does-everything-in-the-universe-connect?redirect_to_mweb=1 View in LinkedIn

THE STARTING POINT. “Q. Does everything in the universe connect? A. First let's answer that question logically, and then see if empirical science confirms the logical conclusion.” https://www.quora.com/Does-everything-in-the-universe-connect?redirect_to_mweb=1 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend is from an unusual source but caught my attention. The question posed was “Does everything in the universe connect?”. Many people think this is true but finding serious-minded articles on the topic has proved challenging. This one response by somebody claiming to be a (unpublished) quantum physicist but with very little footprint on the web seemed to me to be quite profound: is it brilliance or complex stupidity? https://lnkd.in/eGcaKNch View in LinkedIn

The bold early almond blossoms all emerge simultaneously, as blossoms must to perpetuate the species. How does that occur? View in LinkedIn

KANT’S OUTER BRAIN. “The brain does not live inside the head, even though that is its formal habitat. It reaches out to the body, and with the body it reaches out to the world. The brain is hand and the hand is brain.” (Neurologist Frank Wilson). https://lnkd.in/eeu8k7FF View in LinkedIn