Hofstadter's Law: It Always Takes Longer Than

For 13 To Be Unlucky Would Require There To Be Some Kind Of Cosmic Intelligence That Counts Things That Humans Count And That Also Makes Certain Things Happen On Certain Dates Or In Certain Places According To Whether The Number 13 'is Involved' Or Not (whatever 'is Involved' Might Mean).

The Paraphrase Of Gödel's Theorem Says That For Any Record Player, There Are Records Which It Cannot Play Because They Will Cause Its Indirect Self-destruction.

Perhaps The Most Concise Summary Of Enlightenment Would Be: Transcending Dualism . ... Dualism Is The Conceptual Division Of The World Into Categories ... Human Perception Is By Nature A Dualistic Phenomenon - Which Makes The Quest For Enlightenment An Uphill Struggle, To Say The Least.

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 Of Ants.

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, You Can Feel That That Person Did Not Totally Perish From The Earth... Because They Live On In A 'second Neural Home'?... In The Wake Of A Human Being's Death, What Survives Is A Set Of Afterglows, Some Brighter And Some Dimmer, In The Collective Brains Of Those Who Were Dearest To Them... Though The Primary Brain Has Been Eclipsed, There Is, In Those Who Remain... A Collective Corona That Still Glows.