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See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.

— Charles Sheffield Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

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It is very clear that nothing in nature presents such a danger to the human race is our own actions.

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