You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.

Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.