The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And that sentience, as imagined by the self-proclaimed sentient, is an illusion manufactured by a sufficiently complex series of neural interactions. A simulation, if you will.'
'On this basis, either everything of sufficient complexity is sentient, whether it feels itself to be or not, or nothing is.
You just need to move one decision at a time away from the gravity of who you were and toward the quiet pull of who you could still become.
Darkness doesn't need a reason to attack you. It only needs to detect your light.
It’s safer to treat everything as a possibility, not an absolute. Take information apart, look at it, keep what aligns with your own understanding, discard the rest. Never accept a full package from anyone.
The universe is a field of consciousness experiencing itself from different angles.
Growth happens in motion, not in purity.