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“this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

“This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Consciousness seems to be nature's ingenious mode of self-torture.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety