If You Want The Truth Rather Than

Life May Be Not Only Meaningless But Absurd.

Eventually, I Believe, Current Attempts To Understand The Mind By Analogy With Man-made Computers That Can Perform Superbly Some Of The Same External Tasks As Conscious Beings Will Be Recognized As A Gigantic Waste Of Time.

If I Thought That Everything I Did Was Determined By My Circumstancse And My Psychological Condition, I Woudl Feel Trapped.

If Life Is Not Real, Life Is Not Earnest, And The Grave Is Its Goal, Perhaps It's Ridiculous T Otake Ourselves So Seriously.

Humans Are Addicted To The Hope For A Final Reckoning, But Intellectual Humility Requires That We Resist The Temptation To Assume That Tools Of The Kind We Now Have Are In Principle Sufficient To Understand The Universe As A Whole.