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4dog

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1. Here's an out-of-the-box thought on intelligence

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sat Aug 6, 2022, 02:18 PM

Aug 2022

Primo Levi wrote a piece in The Periodic Table called Iron, in which the information of the intelligent protagonist/writer is contained in the arrangement of the electron spins in iron. The writer has to leave Earth because the oxygen is rusting him/her/it.

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