Machines Are Designed Not To Be Random.

There's A Certain Kind Of Scepticism That Can't Bear Uncertainty.

The Cumulative Nature Of The Evolutionary Process, The Fact That Memory Is Preserved, Means That Life Grows Not Just Through A Random Proliferation Of New Forms, But There's A Kind Of Cumulative Quality.

In Practice, The Goal Of Skepticism Is Not The Discovery Of Truth, But The Exposure Of Other People's Errors. It Plays A Useful Role In Science, Religion, Scholarship, And Common Sense. But We Need To Remember That It Is A Weapon Serving Belief Or Self-interest; We Need To Be Skeptical Of Skeptics. The More Militant The Skeptic, The Stronger The Belief.

Basically, Morphic Fields Are Fields Of Habit, And They've Been Set Up Through Habits Of Thought, Through Habits Of Activity, And Through Habits Of Speech. Most Of Our Culture Is Habitual.

A Lot Of Us Have All Sorts Of Ideas, And We Select Some Rather Than Others And Give Expression To Those... And Some Works Of Art Are More Successful Than Others. Some Languish In Obscurity And Are Never Heard Of Again, While Others Form The Foundation Of A Whole School Of Art.