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System Quotes by Alan Watts
- You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
- We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated…
- The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
- You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so…
- If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of…
- For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than…
- If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body,…
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