Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's mu….

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku..

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful….

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate….

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more ….

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order..

Irrationality is the square root of all evil..

We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsib….

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselv….

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference..

I am the thought you are now thinking..

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true..

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charte….

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect..

The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, yo….

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't..

. . . all meaning comes from analogies..

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done..

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are co….

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals wha….

Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categorie….