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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complete that it must include a model of itself.*

...nothing actually 'wants' to evolve. Evolution is something that happens, willy-nilly, in spite of all the efforts of the replicators (and nowadays of the genes) to prevent it happening.

At some point ... skepticism itself becomes irrational.

Or last moments of life ... become our first moments of truth.

'Today's experiences are the result of tomorrow's decisions.'

Hey, Siri! Call Robert Langdon!

'There's no PSI in science'

"Mannus, my friend, all there is lives always upon all there is;"

If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has not true bottom.

I wanted to fall asleep thinking about the cat.

There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr Wind-up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing that isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me.

We were just two lonely youngsters who needed someone to hold.

A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Life's plot, life's story is complex; things are not as simple as they seem. The man who dies in bed dies forever, whereas the man who dies from an assassin's bullet goes on living.

Fifth configuration: At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.