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our conscious selves saw only the simulation in our heads, an interpretation of reality,
We’re not thinking machines, we’re—we’re feeling machines that happen to think.”
“No, nobody forced me to get the rewire. I could have just let them cut out my brain and pack it into Heaven, couldn’t I? That’s the choice we have. We can be utterly useless, or we can try and compete against the vampires and the constructs and the AIs. And perhaps you could tell me how to do that without turning into a—an utter freak.”
Enhancements. As though he’d upgraded his wardrobe instead of ripping out his senses and grafting new ones into the wounds.
If you don’t retrain you’re obsolete inside a month, and then you’re not much good for anything
WHY SHOULD MAN EXPECT HIS PRAYER FOR MERCY TO BE HEARD BY WHAT IS ABOVE HIM WHEN HE SHOWS NO MERCY TO WHAT IS UNDER HIM?
it’s not so much that you don’t mean any of it. It’s more like you don’t know what any of it means.”
I tried to imagine it: life without sensation, without any active awareness of one’s environment.
You understand the system by understanding the boundaries that contain it.
By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions.
