Observer: A Novel

the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.’

“Schopenhauer: ‘All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it’s violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.’”

Every technology is used before it is completely understood. There is always a lag between an innovation and the apprehension of its consequences.

Consciousness could not be ended by bodily death because consciousness created reality, and since time itself didn’t exist outside of consciousness, there was no “after death” except of the death of someone else’s physical body in another person’s now.

Einstein said ‘the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.’”

religion reflected humanity’s need to codify natural impulses of curiosity about nature and a desire for order, plus perhaps gratitude for life itself.

became a Christian because that is my culture’s expression of belief in something larger than this Earthly life, with ready-made rituals to embody that belief. If I’d been born in India, I’d have chosen to become Hindu; Congolese and it might have been Kimbanguism. The framework is what I wanted. I left Christianity because I found, as with most ot

‘There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.’

consciousness does not simply observe the universe. We create it, and we do so not just singly but collectively.