The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradua….

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more ….

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….

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

I am the thought you are now thinking..

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

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

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….

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..

Irrationality is the square root of all evil..

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

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….

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….

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..

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

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

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

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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

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