Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.