Money

Nothing is impossible - just very expensive.

Fictions

The only things that make us what we are are our thoughts which we have made up.

Mysteries

Mysteries are never solved only replaced.

Mathematics

It seems that reality is written in numbers.

Anthropomorphism

The 

real reason 

we do not fine 

trees for littering 

leaves 

is 

that

we 

know 

they 

will 

                never          pay

                                       

Astronomy

Every galaxy we have observed in our telescopes is forever changing, becoming - spinning into something else.

The Nature of so called Progress

Madness has its evolutionary advantage for only the mad may do the impossible.

The Dilemma

Life cannot be both understood and lived.

The student

The student both passed and failed his quantum mechanics exam.

Our Prejudices

Many, perhaps most, of our prejudices and untruths are so deeply held they are unconscious, undetectable to us, unknown to us, beneath our understanding and yet the cause, the foundation, of that understanding. 

The Future

Let us not talk of progress (only children believe in such a thing) instead let us talk of change, of evolution, of possibility.

Fun Fact

Our sense of right and wrong has absolutely nothing to do with us.

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Which came first the chicken or the egg? 

Essentialist thinking.

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All abstractions are but obstructions.

Contact

It may be necessary for us to become the alien we have been searching for.

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Perhaps all planets are traps not just of gravity but of ways of thinking as well.

The Lesson

Children should be taught at nine to believe in a God without question than at twelve they should be shown the utter absurdity of such an idea.

The question

The question is not whether we will regard the machines of the future as conscious or not, nor is the question whether the machines of the future will in fact be conscious or not, the question is whether the machines of the future will regard themselves as conscious or not.

The Second Chance

And God said onto Adam; "eat from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge again and ye shall be cast out from the garden of Eden."

The Clue

Looking upwards one day I thought I glimpsed the faint outline of a hyper dimensional object, a hole in the fabric of our spacetime, a singularity, a mighty glitch in the program...

When in fact it was merely a cloud seen out of the corner of my eye.

The Event

Something took place, exactly when or where has yet to be established, what it means we don't know...

Pity

We feel sorrow for the child brought up by wolves in great forests when perhaps we should feel more sorrow for ourselves.

The Aesthetic Threat

The birth of a mutant so beautiful they render everything other then themselves meaningless.

Work in Progress

A poem only lives while it is being written; the same is true for us.

Avoidance Strategies

The great man can spend so much of his time avoiding the stupid man that the great man can himself appear stupid. 

Thus do great men sometimes mistake each other for idiots.

The Philosopher

"I could if I so wished, with subtle and long winded arguments, prove the existence of the external world, but I have more pressing matters to attend to."

The Human Condition

Anyone who has been forced to use a busy Starbucks toilet knows that man is essentially animal in nature.

Work in Progress

God is one of my favourite  fictional characters and I'm one of his.

Evolution

Hyper-intelligence may not have been evolutionarily advantageous; the caveman who grasps the fundamental nature of consciousness but is eaten by a Sabre-tooth tiger shortly thereafter does not pass on his hyper-intelligence.

Euthanasia

Please do not kill my dreams; they are perfectly capable of dying on their own.

An ideal world

To have two problems is better than having just one: they prevent you fixating.