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Reflections 31st August

Animals, Algorithms and Three Decimal Places

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Richard Merrick
Aug 31, 2025
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Albert Einstein. Image: Caroline Langdell.
There is something quite sterile about the conversations in the world of business and politics at the moment. I sense more fear than curiosity, as though we have been swept overboard from a vessel of normality and are thrashing around, looking for something to hold on to.
Just because we sense that the things we have been told to cling to are disintegrating around us, it does not mean it is true ; just that we are looking in the wrong places.

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