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“The problem when you ask a common person about their beliefs is that it’s not them that answers. It’s the feature of their mind that has this job. And its goal is not to believe or even disbelieve things. Its goal is to »keep its job. Humans...

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“…if you think that a corporate machine that has fracked the entire history of human existence … can ‘summarize’ human thought, experience and creativity for you… so that there is no longer any need to engage directly and creatively...

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“… it resists the gravity of the cliches it might otherwise collapse into… any by so doing, puts an end to them … ” — from a conversation orbiting the spirit of insight and creativity

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“You know, most of the time I just entertain myself by reflecting … hopefully with increasing playfulness and creativity … on the abject absurdity of nearly every moment of my own existence. And my mind. Inside me it’s so weird, so...

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There is an old trope about language, computation, possibility (and impossibility) where one (and it is crucial to understand that this entire charade is fundamentally »hypothetical) assembles some arbitrarily vast number of primates and adds a commensurate quantity...