Bo Fowler's Blog, page 13

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 attended 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. 

Untitled

Thinking is just whispering very, very quietly.

A future controversy

In the distant future artificially intelligent theologians will debate whether we humans had souls.

 

Self Consciousness

Perhaps self consciousness is not so much a miracle as an aberrance.