Some Of Us, Perhaps All Of Us,

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.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

It Is An Inherent Property Of Intelligence That It Can Jump Out Of A Task Which It Is Performing And Survey What It Has Done.

Irrationality Is The Square Root Of All Evil.

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