Reductionism Is Merciless.

Sometimes It Seems As Though Each New Step Towards Ai, Rather Than Producing Something Which Everyone Agrees Is Real Intelligence, Merely Reveals What Real Intelligence Is Not.

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 Responsibility To - We Say "i", "i" Did This Because "i" Wanted To, Because "i" Am A Good Person Or Because "i" Am A Bad Person. The Loop Is The Fact That We Represent Our Selves, Our Desires, Hopes, Dreads And Dreams: It Is The Way In Which We Conceive Of Ourselves, Rather Than The Way We Conceive Of Mount Everest Or Of A Tree. And I Say It Exists Entirely In The Loop: The Self Is An Hallucination Hallucinated By An Hallucination.

We All Have Heard It Claimed That 13 Is An 'unlucky Number.' Indeed, There Are Many Hotels In America That For This Very Reason Claim Not To Have A 13th Floor, In The Sense That There Is No Button Bearing The Label '13' In Their Elevators (i Recently Stayed In One In New York, In Fact).

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

You Can Imagine A Soul As Being A Detailed, Elaborate Pattern That Exists Very Clearly In One Brain. When A Person Dies, The Original Is No Longer Around. But There Are Other Versions Of It In Other People's Brains. It's A Less Detailed Copy, It's Coarse-grained.