If A Mosquito Has A Soul, It

This Idea That There Is Generality In The Specific Is Of Far-reaching Importance.

You Can Imagine A Soul As Being A Detailed, Elaborate Pattern That Exists Very Clearly In One Brain. When A Person Dies, The Original Is No Longer Around. But There Are Other Versions Of It In Other People's Brains. It's A Less Detailed Copy, It's Coarse-grained.

The Strange Flavour Of Ai Work Is That People Try To Put Together Long Sets Of Rules In Strict Formalisms Which Tell Inflexible Machines How To Be Flexible.

No Reference Is Truly Direct — Every Reference Depends On Some Kind Of Coding Scheme. It's Just A Question Of How Implicit It Is.

Meaning Lies As Much In The Mind Of The Reader As In The Haiku.