Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

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.

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

I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

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

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.