Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Building on Shifting Sands

Building on Shifting Sands

A risk analysis of life might temper ambitions.

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The human body is not the most robust or reliable of things. Nature operates on the basis that very high numbers of units can offset high fault rates. Nature would never create one bridge to cross a river since it would almost certainly have some fatal flaw. Instead, she would span a river with dozens of bridges, so the s…

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