Status Updates From Into The Silent Land

BRAINS ARE WAAAAAACKYYYYYY

“‘It’s just the one lifetime?’ ‘Afraid so,’ she said. ‘Better make the most of it’”
Beautiful worlds that really encompass the book
What a treat to wrap my head around, I’m going to be thoroughly existential for days to come I expect

I like the thought that there are Brownies in my head

“Think of the brain as the hardware, the mind as the software, and the self as the text on the screen”

(Referring to a brain in a jar) “I imagine the worlds it had created: sky, clouds, people, pleasure, and pain”
“Though we may not have a special place in the universe, the universe, as far as we can understand it, has a special place in us”
Loved the chapter ‘Vodka and Saliva’
Who knew that Einsteins brain was chopped up, stolen, and kept in a cookie jar?

Interesting story of James “The Visible Man” would have loved more information
“How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your life”

“The brain thinks it’s a soul”
“We are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction”

“What the fuck am I doing here”

Illusions are irresistible… but I can live on illusions
“To disturb someone from a state of non-existence is a terrible responsibility. Look at what can happen”

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