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“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. “

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back

Yes, vanity accompanies virtue. But do not let that fact be a reason to abandon virtue because if you do, then you will only have vanity

“Kissing seems not a great matter, in a way. And yet in one way it speaks the million things which words can’t.” John Thurber, born on this day in 1894, on longing, unrequited love, and the power of a kiss: brainpickings.org/2015/12/08/jam…

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

Movies are dreams of the hive mind

“Ask not what physics can do for biology--ask what biology can do for physics.”

What do you despise? From this you are truly known

Art is when one’s unconscious mind guides the body to create something smarter than the conscious mind.

He who studies stupidity, is studied by stupidity

A black hole is an exotic region of space. Weird things happen there. The brain is an exotic region of space. Weird things happen there.

Information highways, traffic accidents send cars flying off the road. The information expresses itself through consciousness.

This is what infinity looks like from the inside

Gravity is a bigger object pulling down a smaller object via entanglement

Social media makes heartbreak worse; it’s too easy to pull up a profile and undo healing.

Information traveling in all directions and dimensions, the paths taken wear on space. The paths overflow and are capped by what we call matter.

Clock pendulums synchronizing, People imitating desires. Neurons harmonizing leading to epileptic seizure

The universe, making itself better

Designer babies but for the universe. Smart, controlled decoherence machines, everywhere. They find the best, stable configurations and pull strings to bring it into existence.

Consciousness is the estuary of predictions and input