I write with teenagers in mind.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.