Sublime

But it is not known whether the principle obscurely described in the specification was applicable in any way to the invisible agency employed in Psycho.The punch line was that the article was signed "John Algernon Clarke." So the author claimed he was mystified by his own creation and couldn't properly determine whether his own patent was

As evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson states, “No serious scholar would think that human behavior is controlled the way animal instinct is, without the intervention of culture.”

The next step into mystical states carries us into a realm that public opinion and ethical philosophy have long since branded as pathological, though private practice and certain lyrical strains of poetry seem still to bear witness to its ideality

reconciled

And the final inevitable phildickian twist? PKD was born in ’28 and died in ’82 – the same numbers reversed, just how he would have wanted it.

But from the standpoint of modern sociology we feel that man is necessarily a social thing, if only for the reason that no individual can come into being without a father and a mother—and this is already society.

He knows only that these people—the tiny few immune to consensual reality—have a secret he needs to understand.

this troubled world can be achieved by acquiring and wielding a special kind of know-how, a knowledge that alone can save.3

Turns out Chalmers went on to become a leading disrupter in consciousness research.