Of all the illusions to which human consciousness is prey, death may be the most beguiling. And the most asinine. To conceive of experiencing one's own death presumes a division of body and mind which, you see, was merely the superstition of a darker age. More accurately conceived, death is ...

Hamlet's famous question was thus, from a more modern perspective, ill posed. Because human consciousness is fundamentally and at every level a complex of normal chemical and mechanical processes, we cannot seriously entertain the fantasy of not knowing ourselves. And without an assurance that ...

Miscomprehension is that comprehension which is taken to be correct until technology reveals the actual nature of what is.

Television, however, has contradicted the social wisdom of our ancestors by suggesting that, under the right circumstances, one writer is preferable to none at all.

For everything which happens presently is a consequence of something which happened before it. The past, in this sense, is little more than a record of causes and their effects. This record is vast but finite, like the universe itself. When a machine is built powerful enough to crunch the ...

I find it advisable in poetry, as in life, to begin with the probability that God is too complex to be perceived by our senses or understood by our minds. A God anything less than this inscrutable, as a corollary to Anselm's theorem might demonstrate, would not be God, with the result that God ...

Of all the ways of making the weaker argument seem the stronger, merely stating that the weaker argument is an alternative to the stronger is one of the more subtle. Saying that further research into the matter is required is subtler still.