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• I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
• It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc.…
• But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of…
• Minds are simply what brains do.
• The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
• You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
• I bet the human brain is a kludge
• Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the…
• Logic doesn't apply to the real world.
• Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of…
• General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything…
• In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.

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