"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."
-Kevin Kelly
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"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.“
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"Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far."
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"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness."
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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
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"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
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