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You do not see light. You see only those objects that emit or reflect it. Intelligence is similar, but more profound… the sources or errors… are implicit in the reflections…

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Our private and social lives, our public existence… and all of our electronic activity, comprises a new form of analytical commodity of inestimable value. It is the precursor to entirely new forms of intelligence and ‘opportunity’, and these forms...

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Those forces that oppress the people… are fictions. ‘They’ are not (generally) an actual they. They are, in fact, the standing bodies of our failure to establish any kind of ‘we’ that is actual, mutual, intelligent or true. In those...

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“At one time, news was transmitted very ‘inefficiently’ by bards, who shaped their statement by all sorts of subtle tests (saying only what could be sung, for instance). This imaginative procedure has now been bureaucratized with the most astonishing...

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“If you ever find yourself easily overwhelmed or derailed by anxiety, bad news, or sudden worry, try what I did a few years ago. I started treating anything really intense like it was really hot coffee. Like, sure, I *could* drink it immediately, but it was...

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“Though you would not expect it, the sudden intrusion of additional domains of meaning and relation in your experience… would result in you experiencing something … at least conceivably… ‘more real’… than the relatively...