Observer: A Novel

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

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

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

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

Alea jacta est.

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.’

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

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