Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.