Everyday I despam, seeing random snippets and spam drek. There are hundreds of them.
Advertizing, essentially.
Some of it nasty, some mundane and once in a while, interesting because they feel compelled to scribe something closer to the university, kind of like high brow toilet stall graffitti. (A second thought: You mean that the nasty and mundane aren't interesting?)
Like reading a fortune cookie, one sometimes catches your eye. Today's spam sez:
If biologists have ignored self organization, it is not because self ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central thought, if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely, surely have to understand the commingling of self organization
and selection.
Hmmm. A final theory. I don't like that, but the question goes to the nature of life. What is it? We might find out in our time, and I don't think an answer, especially a scientific one, would make finite the things we find precious about life.
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