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"Most smartest man in the world."
Hehe.
Smartestest! Have you read his paper about the animate and inanimate?
He submits that people are the temporal opposite of the 2nd law of thermo-dynamics.
Pretty out there.
One idea he had that I love to think about is he said astronomy and biology should be combined into one field of study.
he said astronomy and biology should be combined into one field of study.
I'm pretty sure stars aren't within what I could conceive of as alive... but I probably am a giant ball of hot gas, so it makes sense.
However, cosmic rays influence genetics. If we are a collection of living cells, could a planet be said to be alive because of a collection of living animals on it?
He (to the best of my knowledge) never explained the idea but it's interesting.
Interesting.