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“The fear of panic has killed more people than most disasters themselves.”
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it's not red anymore.
In the tears and laughter of a single life, you find the grief and joy of humanity.
"Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain," writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.
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“The voice in your head is not you. You are listening to that voice. It’s a heckler, trying to make you feel bad.”
Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?