Many People Believe That Our Lives End

Hofstadter's Law: It Always Takes Longer Than You Expect, Even When You Take Into Account Hofstadter's Law

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

The Proverbial German Phenomenon Of The Verb-at-the-end About Which Droll Tales Of Absentminded Professors Who Would Begin A Sentence, Ramble On For An Entire Lecture, And Then Finish Up By Rattling Off A String Of Verbs By Which Their Audience, For Whom The Stack Had Long Since Lost Its Coherence, Would Be Totally Nonplussed, Are Told, Is An Excellent Example Of Linguistic Recursion.

You Make Decisions, Take Actions, Affect The World, Receive Feedback From The World, Incorporate It Into Yourself, Then The Updated 'you' Makes More Decisions, And So Forth, 'round And 'round.

Perhaps The Most Concise Summary Of Enlightenment Would Be: Transcending Dualism . ... Dualism Is The Conceptual Division Of The World Into Categories ... Human Perception Is By Nature A Dualistic Phenomenon - Which Makes The Quest For Enlightenment An Uphill Struggle, To Say The Least.