“Maybe Democritus did not understand that matter, as a convention or th...” — Dejan Stojanovic Quote

“Maybe Democritus did not understand that matter, as a convention or the world of atoms that makes the whole Universe, including our brain, which “rules” the senses and cognition, is the same convention. However, an atom is a convention. The World is a Convention of the Absolute. The conventions must be relative; only the Absolute is unconventional, but only by and through conventions are the world and life possible.”

“The passing of the Absolute through itself, between two zeros or two nothings, is life. This passage, which makes life possible, is impossible without nothingness as an equally important “force.” Only nothingness is emptiness or an absolute vacuum. The Absolute Source creates the world and life by swallowing emptiness, not by the explosion into the void.”

“The night is still waiting.”

“After the voyage, every form comes to the same place despite being dispersed in myriad directions in conditional “separation” and dissolution. When forms completely dissolve, the emptiness separating forms or shapes becomes a primordial desert of nothingness without the shapes. This nothingness is the same everywhere; every “place or point” becomes the same “place,” a pointless point; the distance disappears. Since there is no time without space, the same applies to time. Real space is nothingness or an absolute vacuum; it is non-dimensional.”

“I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.”

“People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.”

“Для психолога может показаться очевидным, что эволюция рефлексивного, самоосознающего мозга освободит нас от базового диктата нашего эволюционного прошлого. Для эволюционного биолога, очевидным является совершенно противоположное — что человеческий мозг эволюционировал не для того, чтобы изолировать нас от правил выживания и репродукции, но для того, чтобы следовать им более эффективно, более точно. Мы произошли от видов, самцы которых силой овладевают самками; сейчас самцы нашего вида шепчут самкам разные приятные глупости, и шептания вполне могут подчиняться той же самой логике, что и насилие — логике манипулирования самкой в интересах самца, и эта форма манипулирования служит той же функции.”

“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.”

“In those cultures lacking unfamiliar challenges, external or internal, where fundamental change is unneeded, novel ideas need not be encouraged. Indeed, heresies can be declared dangerous; thinking can be rigidified; and sanctions against impermissible ideas can be enforced -- all without much harm. But under varied and changing environmental or biological or political circumstances, simply copying the old ways no longer works. Then, a premium awaits those who, instead of blandly following tradition, or trying to foist their preferences on to the physical or social Universe, are open to what the Universe teaches.”