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How Puritanism Works
Not standing up for what you know to be right allows a tiny minority of pathological individuals to destroy a civilisation
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Ch 12: final extract and conclusion
A new and better model for understanding the science of life
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Ch 12: extract 8
Reflections on the extraordinary lengths we go to in order to preserve the machine model
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Ch 12: extract 7
Is anything completely purposeless?
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Ch 12: extract 6
More reasons we are not like machines ... and why do we find it so hard to say so?
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Ch 12: extract 5
More reasons we are not like machines: only room for one today (but it is a big one) ...
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Ch 12: extract 4
Why organisms are not machines: two more ways (at least three more to come)
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Ch 12: extract 3
Why organisms are not machines: three reasons (at least five more to come)
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Ch 12: extract 2
Gigantic lumbering robots, and other fantasies
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And now back to life
My reflections on the science of biology - until very recently
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Christ the (reluctant) Judge
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March 2025

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