#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
"In the human case, it would be mistaken to give a kind of hour-by-hour accounting. You know, 'I had +4 level of experience for this hour, then I had -2 for the next hour, and then I had -1' — and you sort of sum to try to work out the total… And I came to think that something like that will be applicable in some of…
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