Out of control CHAPTER 2 HIVE MIND Decentralized remembering as an act of perception p.37 Each of our memories was delicately etched into its own plate, catalogued and filed faithfully by the temperate brain, and barring violence, could be retrieved like a jukebox song by pushing the right buttons. CHAPTER 4 ASSEMBLING COMPLEXITY p.92 Researching the plants that were associated with savanna, Packard soon came up with a list of other associated species such as thistles, cream gentians, and yellow pimpernels-that he quickly realized peppered the fringes of his restoration sites. Packard had even found a blazing star flower a few years before. [...] "What the heck is this?" he'd asked the botanist. "It's not in the books, it's not listed in the state catalogue of species. What is it?" CHAPTER 5 COEVOLUTION p. 121 The dethronement of learning is one of the most exciting intellectual frontiers we are now crossing. In a virtual cyclotron, learning is being s...
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