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In Any Case, A New Kind Of Science Is A Wonderful Book, And I'm Still Absorbing Its Teachings.

Science Fiction Writers Put Characters Into A World With Arbitrary Rules And Work Out What Happens.

I Am, As It Were, An Eye That The Cosmos Uses To Look At Itself. The Mind Is Not Mine Alone; The Mind Is Everywhere.

When I See An Old Movie, Like From The ’40s Or ’50s Or ’60s, The People Look So Calm. They Don’t Have Smartphones, They’re Not Looking At Computer Screens, They’re Taking Their Time. They’ll Sit In A Chair And Just Stare Off Into Space. I Think Some Day We’ll Find Our Way Back To That Garden Of Eden.

Intellectually, Perspective [drawing] Is A Breakthrough, Because Here, For The First Time, The Physical Space We Live In Is Being Depicted As Ifit Were An Abstract, Mathematical Space. A Less Obvious Innovation Due To Perspective Is That Here, For The First Time, People Are Actually Drawing Pictures Of Infinities.