“Schrödinger is certainly a worthy recipient of the Nobel Prize. But when Sweden called, there was no mention of his debt to Homer...”

“Consciousness is the experience of pre-existing contrasts (sensation) deriving meaning from a shared context.”

“Structure, logic, and potentiality prior to space and time… How is that not what we talk about when we talk about God?”

“we find ourselves at a fork in the road…AI will either complete the mechanization of human culture…or liberate us from the tyranny of machines altogether.”

“Tarot can be seen as a paradigm of Judeo-Christian spirituality. So deal me in…please!”

“What’s it like to be a 5 year old version of myself? It’s exactly like being a 75 year old version…because 5 year old me is 75 year old me!”

“…It makes no difference what direction we look, it’s utter devastation everywhere. Oh, the price we pay to have no God!”

“Where once I was judged by the standard of the Decalogue, now I judge the Decalogue by my standards.”

“If we are so far unable to find meaning for our existence, why would we expect meeting ET to change things?”

“What is Value? Does it exist, is it for real? Or is it something we make up to justify our capricious behavior?”

“Ovid freed us from the collective anonymity of Plato and prepared us for the intensely personal theology of Jesus.”

“AI treats Sally as the intersection of a bunch of sociological variables…(but) Startrek’s Borg Collective takes ‘post-modern Sally’ to a whole other level”