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Rob Lewis's avatar

Finally got a chance to listen to this lovely dialog between two such fine minds. How interesting, Daniel, that you brought up the word "environment" just after Dougald mentioned Ewe Poerksen's observations on scientific language. It's from Poerksen I realized that "environment" was an example of what he called "plastic words."

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Hadden Turner's avatar

"Is it bad luck with the chemistry or would we have always have come to this point due to how we fundamentally deal with the world?" is such a brilliant insight.

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