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"I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner."

"Here's your change. Paper or plastic? Credit or debit? You want ketchup with that? I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know? "

Now you might say, that it's part of our human nature. Not something we learn from society, but part of our nature itself. That We care about each other. That, as many philosphers argued, we are born with a sense of compassion or sympathy, or pity. And perhabs we are even born with a sense of justice, some sense of fairness. Even the small children, when they're not treated as they would like to be treated. Without having a choice on the matter, we project this sense on the universe and we expect the universe to fulfill our demands. We think, for example, that evil should be punished. We think the goodness should be rewarded. And the problem, it goes all the way back to the early middle ages, often called the problem of evil. The obvious fact that we're just not always rewarded, the obvious fact that the evil sometimes get away with what they do, has always been a deep problem, for phylogical thinkers. But without even reference to religion, it's a problem for all of us. They observed that this recognition, that we have a demand of the world and the world just doesn't care.

I feel the top of the room come off,
kill everybody there
and I'm watching all the stars burn out,
trying to pretend that I care

But I didn't,
(no-one ever does)
and I won't,

"Down through the centuries the notion that life is rounded in a dream has been a pervasive theme of philosophers and poets.
So doesn’t it make sense that death, too, would be wrapped in dream?
That after death, your conscious life would continue in what might be called a ‘dream body’?
It would be the same dream body you experience in your everyday dream life, except that in the post-mortal state, you could never again wake up.
Never again return to your physical body."

"In a way, in our contemporary world view, it’s easy to think that science has come to take the place of God. But some philosophical problems remain as troubling as ever. Take the problem of free will. This problem has been around for a long time, since before Aristotle in 350 B.C. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, these guys all worried about how we can be free if God already knows in advance everything you’re gonna do. Nowadays we know that the world operates according to some fundamental physical laws, and these laws govern the behavior of every object in the world. Now, these laws, because they’re so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements. But look at yourself. We’re just physical systems too, right? We’re just complex arrangements of carbon molecules. We’re mostly water, and our behavior isn’t gonna be an exception to these basic physical laws. So it starts to look like whether its God setting things up in advance and knowing everything you’re gonna do or whether it’s these basic physical laws governing everything, there’s not a lot of room left for freedom.

So now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will. Say “Oh, well, it’s just an historical anecdote. It’s sophomoric. It’s a question with no answer. Just forget about it.” But the question keeps staring you right in the face. You think about individuality for example, who you are. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make. Or take responsibility. You can only be held responsible, you can only be found guilty, or you can only be admired or respected for things you did of your own free will. So the question keeps coming back, and we don’t really have a solution to it. It starts to look like all our decisions are really just a charade.

Think about how it happens. There’s some electrical activity in your brain. Your neurons fire. They send a signal down into your nervous system. It passes along down into your muscle fibers. They twitch. You might, say, reach out your arm. It looks like it’s a free action on your part, but every one of those – every part of that process is actually governed by physical law, chemical laws, electrical laws, and so on.

So now it just looks like the big bang set up the initial conditions, and the whole rest of human history, and even before, is really just the playing out of subatomic particles according to these basic fundamental physical laws. We think we’re special. We think we have some kind of special dignity, but that now comes under threat. I mean, that’s really challenged by this picture.

"It might be true that there are six billion people in this world, and counting, but nevertheless - what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms, it makes a difference to other people, and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as a victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are. "

I've been doing a lot of bad things without you
And all the damned things I knew confound you
As satan his devils try to take my hand
And the angels on my shoulders try to tell me that they understand
Oh well, oh well

I"ve been chewing the skin in my mouth without you
I've been insecure and cruel without you