I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.
BERNARD BECKETTMany scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
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Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
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I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.
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And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.
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… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.
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Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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I write with teenagers in mind.
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Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
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Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
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In the end, living is defined by dying.
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Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
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The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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