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41 " is without question that we live inside a dream. I do not mean this world is illusory or submissive to one’s will. Rather, you will have noticed that when inside a dream, despite the contorted narrative, and the sudden return of friends long dead, and a crack in the sky—for as long as you are asleep, the logic holds. It is only upon waking that you realise there was no logic to the dream at all. The waking world is no different. Yes, we are familiar with the presentations of light and sound and time. Yes, we are aware that two objects cannot occupy the same space, that eleven is a prime number, and so on. But what is the logic beneath these presentations? What is so self-evident about light or sound or time? The answer is: nothing. "
― Exurb1a , Geometry for Ocelots
42 " The world is not comprehensible. It is only that we have been asleep so long its incomprehensibility has become familiar. - Excerpts from The Metaphysical Sutras of Lord Anaximander "
43 " Moderation or self-death, "
44 " It was decided that limiting the Union’s growth because of bivnik was anti-Devan, tantamount to a condemnation of our nature. Instead, we would innovate our way out via some technology yet to be discovered.” “Fantastic,” Leo said. “Give Hisarya a few "
45 " There is nothing obvious about the picture of the world we have obtained using the scientific method. Molecules, quarks, atoms, billions of stars and galaxies, meat that knows it’s sentient—what is this madness? And, of course, one might ask: is the scientific model of reality not just another kind of magic, another absurd, fanciful delusion? The answer is: yes. However, it also happens to be the only delusion that doesn’t go away when one stops believing in it. "
46 " there may still be some hope of turning the tide of bivnik before it is too late. Show them how the walls of paradise are crumbling. When the barrier to the right course of action is low enough, most folk will do the right thing. "