If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.

Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.