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The Eternal Flame (Orthogonal, #2) by Greg Egan

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“I need you to kill two of my children,” he said. “I can’t do it myself. I’m not that strong.”

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“Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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“The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

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“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity

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“Go on. I’m waiting for you to get to the part where you say you’re no more proud of being gay than you are of having brown eyes, or black hair, or a birthmark behind your left knee.” I protested, “That’s true. Why should I be ‘proud’ of something I was born with? I’m not proud, or ashamed. I just accept it. And I don’t have to join a parade to prove that.”
― Greg Egan, Luminous

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