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Richard Dawkins
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Steve Grand points out that you and I are, ourselves, more like a wave than a permanent thing.
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REALLY, for an animal, is whatever its brain needs it to be in order to assist its survival. And because different species live in different worlds, there will be a discomforting variety of REALLYS.
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What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished world, but a model of the world, regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed so it's useful for dealing with the real world.
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The range of sizes and speeds which we have evolved to feel intuitively comfortable with is a bit like the narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum that we see as light of various colors.
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Middle World is the narrow range of reality which we judge to be normal, as opposed to the queerness of the very small, the very large and the very fast.
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Nothing is totally impossible. Miracles are just events that are extremely improbable.
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I suspect that life is quite common in the universe. And when I say quite common, it could still be so rare that no one island of life ever encounters another, which is a sad thought.
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Are our brains so versatile and expandable that we can train ourselves to break out of the box of our evolution?
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Are there some things in the universe so queer that no philosophy of beings, however godlike, could dream them?
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