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don’t know why I didn’t recognize the racial characteristics when I saw him. Evidently I’m easily deceived.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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netflix.comA human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
... See moreLoch Kelly , Adyashanti (Foreword) • Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
a photon is conscious.
Phyllis Kirk JD • Quantum Lite Simplified
‘People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
The “laws” of physics are not universal, because on small scales things behave differently from the way they do in the everyday world. Energy can express itself either as a wave or a particle, and sometimes as both. The consciousness of the observer determines how energy will behave.