A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress items from the past week
>No merely material compound of atoms and cells could have imagined, built, and operated Voyager 1.
And yet, a merely material collection of atoms did imagine, build, and operate Voyager!
Indeed. The word "merely" is doing all the work in that claim; just replace "merely" with "amazingly".
>No merely material compound of atoms and cells could have imagined, built, and operated Voyager 1.
And yet, a merely material collection of atoms did imagine, build, and operate Voyager!
Indeed. The word "merely" is doing all the work in that claim; just replace "merely" with "amazingly".