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"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."
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"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."
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"The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day."
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"One lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity."
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"The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs."
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"The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality."
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"A single thought can shift your entire world."
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"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."
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"We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually."
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"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
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"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."
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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
History
"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."
Life
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
Computer
"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
Science
"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
Power
"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
Creativity
"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."
God
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
Creativity
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
Limit
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Technology
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