"The doubt is whether a creature that certainly appears to be alive really is. Alternativley, the doubt that a lifless object might actyally live.
That's why dolls haunt us. They were modled on humans. They are, in fact, nothing but human. They make us face the terror of being reduced to simple mechanisms and matter. In other words, the fear that, fundementally, all humans belong to the void. Further, science,
seeking to unlock the secrets of life, brought about this terror. The notion that nature is calculable inevitably leads to the conclusions that humans too, are reducable to basic, machanicle parts."
-Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
To die, without the dieing
And live, without the life
This is the hardest miracle
propounded by belief.
-Emily Dickinson
"In solitude, we are at least alone."
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
Author: George Carlin
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