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← Life is about the physical embodiment of knowledge
17 connected korrents · 13 moments from 31 Aug 1837 to 20 Sept 2026.
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Read this korrent: Life is about the physical embodiment of knowledge
Life is about the physical embodiment of knowledge
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David Deutsch — holds since c. 1997 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Physical life teaches that thoughts have reality and create the reality you know — tap to centre the map on it
Physical life teaches that thoughts have reality and create the reality you know
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Jane Roberts — holds since c. 1963–1970 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Knowledge that lives only in a book or a machine is not knowledge you have. — tap to centre the map on it
Knowledge that lives only in a book or a machine is not knowledge you have.
Last stated 12 months ago
18 Nov 2025
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Scott H. Young — holds since 2025-11-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The universe is transformation, and life is opinion — tap to centre the map on it
The universe is transformation, and life is opinion
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Marcus Aurelius — holds since c. 171–175 CE — tap for who they are
Same subject: Knowledge can be its own end and its own reward — tap to centre the map on it
Knowledge can be its own end and its own reward
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John Henry Newman — holds since c. 1852–1890 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment. — tap to centre the map on it
The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment.
Last stated 2 months ago
17 Sept 2026
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Brandon Taylor — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Life is not logical but consequential. — tap to centre the map on it
Life is not logical but consequential.
Last stated 4 months ago
12 Jul 2026
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Luciano Floridi — holds since 2026-07-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Education is to social life what nutrition and reproduction are to physical life — tap to centre the map on it
Education is to social life what nutrition and reproduction are to physical life
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John Dewey — holds since c. 1916 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The real world is not the physical world; it is the physical and digital worlds coming together into one experience. — tap to centre the map on it
The real world is not the physical world; it is the physical and digital worlds coming together into one experience.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 Sept 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg — holds since 2023-09-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that has become bored with the mechanics of running a business cannot succeed, regardless of its strategic success. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that has become bored with the mechanics of running a business cannot succeed, regardless of its strategic success.
Last stated a month ago
20 Sept 2026
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Bryan Cantrill — holds since 2026-09-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Sept 2024
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Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A designer's edge now is pulling things back, making them simpler and more understandable, because everyone can kind of execute right now. — tap to centre the map on it
A designer's edge now is pulling things back, making them simpler and more understandable, because everyone can kind of execute right now.
Last stated 3 months ago
29 Jul 2026
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Charlie Deets — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI-assisted writing creates an illusion of greater creativity while actually reducing the originality of the ideas expressed. — tap to centre the map on it
AI-assisted writing creates an illusion of greater creativity while actually reducing the originality of the ideas expressed.
Last stated 4 months ago
22 Jun 2026
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Adam Grant — holds since 2026-06-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: As building software gets easier, the differentiator becomes design, ideas, positioning and creativity. — tap to centre the map on it
As building software gets easier, the differentiator becomes design, ideas, positioning and creativity.
Last stated 3 months ago
4 Aug 2026
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Nate Parrott — holds since 2026-08-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Big leaps forward are sprints inspired by a hunch — tap to centre the map on it
Big leaps forward are sprints inspired by a hunch
Last stated 2 years ago
13 Nov 2024
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-11-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A pseudonymous teenager from Poland out-designed a trillion-dollar company that has spent forty years and unlimited resources on the same problem. — tap to centre the map on it
A pseudonymous teenager from Poland out-designed a trillion-dollar company that has spent forty years and unlimited resources on the same problem.
Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jul 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Action is subordinate for a scholar but essential; without it thought cannot ripen into truth — tap to centre the map on it
Action is subordinate for a scholar but essential; without it thought cannot ripen into truth
Last stated 189 years ago
31 Aug 1837
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Ralph Waldo Emerson — holds since 1837-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Big national problems lack grassroots effort, not good ideas — tap to centre the map on it
Big national problems lack grassroots effort, not good ideas
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Nov 2024
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Robert D. Putnam — holds since 2024-11-01 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 1837 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are