We have been able to map the entire neural network of the common earthworm - some 302 neurons - and yet, the cosmos is not yet full of immortal worms.https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/1373756388959252482 …
The reason old Rome was not, in fact, eternal, is because the romans didn't think of drawing sufficiently high-resolution maps of their city.
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True if the ancient city of Rome was composed of roads and buildings only. I believe it was more than that...
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It's almost as if there were a metaphor for something in there
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No. It’s because Rome was infinitely more complex than a single map could possibly describe, just like a simple diagram of a worm’s nervous system. There’s a universe inside each neuron we have limited visibility into.
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