“Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?”
Source: Oryx and Crake
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Source: On including animal deaths in her work as symbolism in “An Interview with Yiyun Li” https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-yiyun-li/ in Brick Magazine (2019 Feb 19)
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.
Much Too Young, written by G. Brooks and Randy Taylor
Song lyrics, Garth Brooks (1989)
Foreword (March 2007) to Quantum Aspects of Life (2008), by Derek Abbott.
Context: Does life in some way make use of the potentiality for vast quantum superpositions, as would be required for serious quantum computation? How important are the quantum aspects of DNA molecules? Are cellular microtubules performing some essential quantum roles? Are the subtleties of quantum field theory important to biology? Shall we gain needed insights from the study of quantum toy models? Do we really need to move forward to radical new theories of physical reality, as I myself believe, before the more subtle issues of biology — most importantly conscious mentality — can be understood in physical terms? How relevant, indeed, is our present lack of understanding of physics at the quantum/classical boundary? Or is consciousness really “no big deal,” as has sometimes been expressed?
It would be too optimistic to expect to find definitive answers to all these questions, at our present state of knowledge, but there is much scope for healthy debate...
“In this line of work, too much paranoia can be worse than too little.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 5, “High Society” (p. 101)
On spending her adolescent years on a sailboat, The Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-07/entertainment/ca-1268_1_band-daisy-chainsaw (1992)
