Silicon-based Life May Be Impossible For One

The Adjacent Possible Is A Kind Of Shadow Future, Hovering On The Edges Of The Present State Of Things, A Map Of All The Ways In Which The Present Can Reinvent Itself.

We Are Often Better Served By Connecting Ideas Than We Are By Protecting Them.

The Patterns Are Simple, But Followed Together, They Make For A Whole That Is Wiser Than The Sum Of Its Parts. Go For A Walk; Cultivate Hunches; Write Everything Down, But Keep Your Folders Messy; Embrace Serendipity; Make Generative Mistakes; Take On Multiple Hobbies; Frequent Coffeehouses And Other Liquid Networks; Follow The Links; Let Others Build On Your Ideas; Borrow, Recycle; Reinvent. Build A Tangled Bank.

Who Is Giving The Orders To Ants? No One. They Are Self-organizing. Each Of Our Immune Systems Get Smarter Over The Years As Its Biochemical Parts Share Information, And It Responds With Individualized Defenses, But It Isn't Conscious And It Has No Memory. The Host Of That Party Didn't Decree That Everyone Would Gather In The Kitchen, But It Happened Anyway. Emergence Means We Sometimes Act In Concert For Better Or Worse.

Silicon-based Life May Be Impossible For One Other Reason: Silicon Bonds Readily Dissolve In Water.