I Don't Feel I Have The Right

For 13 To Be Unlucky Would Require There To Be Some Kind Of Cosmic Intelligence That Counts Things That Humans Count And That Also Makes Certain Things Happen On Certain Dates Or In Certain Places According To Whether The Number 13 'is Involved' Or Not (whatever 'is Involved' Might Mean).

The Strange Loop Phenomenon Occurs Whenever, By Moving Upwards (or Downwards) Through Levels Of Some Hierarchial System, We Unexpectedly Find Ourselves Right Back Where We Started.

Perhaps The Problem Is The Seeming Need That People Have Of Making Black-and-white Cutoffs When It Comes To Certain Mysterious Phenomena, Such As Life And Consciousness. People Seem To Want There To Be An Absolute Threshold Between The Living And The Nonliving, And Between The Thinking And The "merely Mechanical," ... But The Onward March Of Science Seems To Force Us Ever More Clearly Into Accepting Intermediate Levels Of Such Properties.

In Fact, A Sense Of Essence Is, In Essence, The Essence Of Sense, In Effect.

The Nice Thing About Having A Brain Is That One Can Learn, That Ignorance Can Be Supplanted By Knowledge, And That Small Bits Of Knowledge Can Gradually Pile Up Into Substantial Heaps.