Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.