The Fate Of The Paranormal Is To

We Want To Be Special. We Want Our Place In The Cosmos To Be Central. We Want Evolution-even Godless Evolution-to Have Been Directed Toward Us So That We Stand At The Pinnacle Of Nature's Ladder Of Progress. Rewind The Tape Of Life And We Want To Believe That We (homo Sapiens) Would Appear Again And Again. Would We? Probably Not.

Humans Evolved Brains That Are Pattern-recognition Machines, Adept At Detecting Signals That Enhance Or Threaten Survival Amid A Very Noisy World. ... But There Is Only One Surefire Method Of Proper Pattern Recognition, And That Is Science.

Absolute Morality Leads Logically To Absolute Intolerance.

The Fate Of The Paranormal Is To Become The Normal As Our Horizons Of Understanding Expand.

Machine Intelligence Of A Human Nature Could Be A Century Away, And Immortality Is At Least A Millennium Away, If Not Unattainable Altogether.