I Think Religion For Many People Is

The Task Of The Mind Is To Produce Future, As The Poet Paul Valery Once Put It. A Mind Is Fundamentally An Anticipator, An Expectation-generator. It Mines The Present For Clues, Which It Refines With The Help Of The Materials It Has Saved From The Past, Turning Them Into Anticipations Of The Future. And Then It Acts, Rationally, On The Basis Of Those Hard-won Anticipations.

Imagination Is Cheap As Long As You Don't Have To Worry About The Details.

I Listen To All These Complaints About Rudeness And Intemperateness, And The Opinion That I Come To Is That There Is No Polite Way Of Asking Somebody: Have You Considered The Possibility That Your Entire Life Has Been Devoted To A Delusion? But That’s A Good Question To Ask. Of Course We Should Ask That Question And Of Course It’s Going To Offend People. Tough.

Homunculi Are Bogeymen Only If They Duplicate Entire The Talents They Are Rung In To Explain. If One Can Get A Team Or Committee Of Relatively Ignorant, Narrow-minded, Blind Homunculi To Produce The Intelligent Behaviour Of The Whole, This Is Progress.

Words Have A Genealogy And It's Easier To Trace The Evolution Of A Single Word Than The Evolution Of A Language.