The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.