Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Tor Nørretranders

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Danish author Tor Nørretranders.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Tor Nørretranders

Tor Nørretranders is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on light popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in popular science. He introduced the notion of exformation in his book The User Illusion.

Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.
The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror. — © Tor Nørretranders
The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror.
Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.
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