The Coarse-Grain Question

"Why can't some of us live for a thousand years, or even a million years? Where in the hell does a hundred years come from?" "An elephant sleeps about four hours a night, and the whale about two. So those are coarse-grained questions, and I'm not in this talk going to answer them," he says. 'We ought to be understanding the order of magnitude, the scale of human life without necessarily being able to predict how long Stuart Brand will live'

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