Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. - Heinz Pagels

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Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

Heinz Pagels

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

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The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

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I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

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The great unexplored frontier is complexity. . . I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.

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Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science shows us that the visible world is neither matter nor spirit; the visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

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What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

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