Echopraxia Quotes

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You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

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Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

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The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

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It’s kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.

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Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn’t care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.

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It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

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The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called .

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Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.

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I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the...

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Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any re...

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At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there’s gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

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Word of advice,” the Colonel said from the other side. “Don’t tease the zombies.

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