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Caffeine she’s held in reserve today, a silver bullet against serotonin-lack and big weird feelings.
Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he
says. Both a gift and a trap.
We have no future because our present is too volatile.”
“We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
Apophenia, Win had
declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.
There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.
“The dead can’t help you, and the boy’s no good.”
