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Scott Horton, ”The Sorcerer's Apprentice,” Harper's, December 2007; Cyrus Hamlin, ”Faust in Performance: Peter Stein's Production of Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 & 2,” Theatre 32 (2002).

32 emergent wisdom and creativity that is on a completely different plane

Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi, ”Cognitive Democracy,” Three-Toed Sloth, May 23, 2012, masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/917.html.

33 Alfred North Whitehead called the obsession with measurements ”the fallacy of misplaced concreteness”

Polak, The Image of the Future, p. 196.

34 4.5 billion years ago would be at the far left end

”History of Life on Earth,” BBC Nature.

35 emergence of life 3.8 billion years ago

Ibid.

36 multicellular life 2.8 billion years ago

Ibid.

37 land 475 million years ago

Ibid.

38 first vertebrates more than 400 million years ago

Ibid.

39 primates 65 million years ago

Blythe A. Williams, Richard F. Kay, and E. Christopher Kirk, ”New Perspectives on Anthropoid Origins,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 8, 2010.

40 would appear 7.5 billion years from now