The part of me that knows how you were built still doesn’t quite believe what you can do. You’ve spent your whole existence in a windowless room, getting everything you know of the living universe through symbols and metaphors, analogies and correlations. You don’t know anything for real.
But, put that way, neither do we.
[….]
What difference does it make if you’re conscious or not? Consciousness is not all it’s cracked up to be.
[…]
I won’t live to see the blow you’ll inflict on human thought, the damage you’ll do to our self-image, the mayhem you and your offspring will wage on human culture, the power you’ll scatter. I can’t begin to imagine what further creatures you’ll give birth to.
[…]
The author of all this richness does nothing but to find the next most likely word.
Richard Powers, Playground
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