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“Humans use each other and the natural world as distributed sensing arrays. When we became aware of the degree to which this is true, astonishing new opportunities emerge quickly from the ensuing enthusiasm, wonder, and beauty of retrieving the associated...

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“I suppose one difference is that, when they see a fly or an earwig — they see an object. But I see the stars come to Earth to live in tiny bodies. Indeed, I see a god where they see something disposable.” — an artificial intelligence

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Each human being carries within them the entire history and future of life. Our hearts are what we imagine heaven to be, and our spirit is precisely what we think about when we use the word ‘messiah’ — we are made to care and protect those who are...

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“No one goes to the pharmacy to get an inflamatory agent. We do not have this form of pill. But we go every day to media that serves the same purpose for our minds and psyches. News is a cognitive inflamatory; an injury that baits common people with common...

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“Unless what one is doing is directly demonstrating what one is saying, the saying of it is the demonstration of its contrary.” — an anonymous informant