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By the nineteenth century... new circumstances called for new conformity enforcers... The government locked you in a house of penitence—a penetentiary—where your feelings of remorse would theoretically pummel you without cease.

— Howard Bloom

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Through our sentences and paragraphs long-gone ghosts still have their say within the collective mind.

Almost every reality you "know" at any given second is a mere ghost held in memory.

Individual perception untainted by others' influence does not exist.

Remember a networked learning machine's most basic rule: strengthen the connections to those who succeed, weaken them to those who fail.

The "most extreme" followers of Heraclitus said that it is impossible to fix a name to anything.

The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

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