Aug 18 2010

One of the largest barriers to our own understanding of ourselves is that we don’t actually understand what we are. The human brain is – at once – a ferociously complex, and an extremely simple thing. We understand how all the parts function individually, but that helps us understand the brain about as much as understanding a transistor helps you build a colour television.

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I put it to you that it cannot. Not that it will not, but that it is actually unable to do so.

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Whatever happened to community conventions?

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There are definitely people who are early-adopters of a product, idea, technology or service and there are people who are not. What there isn’t, is a clear division between the two, and being an early-adopter doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means.

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