LIFE AS A VERB

Scattered specks of astonishing, energy-hungry complexity…

Tentacled archaeon thought to be similar to the ancestor of complex cells.
Credit: Hiroyuki Imachi, Masaru K. Nobu and JAMSTEC

Generative AI Image credit: Dale Crosby-Close

Even the hugest telescope has to have an eye-piece no larger than the human eye.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (1980: 17) Culture and Value. Translated by Peter Winch. The University of Chicago Press

May 2024 rendering based on electron-microscope data, showing the positions of neurons in cubic millimeter of brain cortex. Neurons colored according to size.
Image credit: D. Berger — Google Research & Lichtman Lab, Harvard University.

Alien intelligence evoked by this tantalizing glimpse into the nonlinear orthographic language of Heptapod lifeforms, in this still from the science fiction movie, Arrival (2016).