“We’ve been searching for our reflection. I suggest a team of three to five year olds to help us imagine how ET might really look and act.”

“Science is not the antithesis of Christianity; it is a subset of it… not the enemy of religion but its most powerful engine.”

“We can put a good figure on how much we know about the universe: 5%.”

“In less than 500 years, we’ve gone from a privileged species on a privileged planet at the center of the Universe to a speck on a speck on a speck.”

“Nihilist Nietzsche joining forces with Orthodox Theists and 21st century computer scientists…”

“We imagine we’re seeing the Universe as it is; in fact, we’re looking through a kaleidoscope, mistaking colored glass for reality.” 

“Memories light the corners of my mind, misty watercolored memories…scattered pictures of…the way we were.” (Streisand)

“Effectively, consciousness effects/reflects a ‘fold’ in spacetime that invalidates the familiar Euclidean metric.”

“I think Camus gets himself into some serious trouble here…he lets dreaded ‘objective values’ slip back into his system.”

“Going forward, you might want to tone down that male  machismo, just a bit.” 

“Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4.”

“…The evangelists outlined an economic doctrine challenging today’s Liberal (capitalist), Marxist (socialist), and Islamic (iqtisad) models.”