Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds

 

Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds

 

Children of the Mind (1996) - Orson Scott Card

 Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)

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"What is your will, anyway? Nobody can see it. You don't hear it thinking. You only know what your will is afterward, when you look back in your life and see what you've done."

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Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)

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"We have given offense where we meant none," said Peter. "I am ashamed. We must go at once." Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue.

Xenocide (1991) - Orson Scott Card

Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

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"I spoke unclearly. We are using two different meanings of the words truth and belief. You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality-- to whether it literally depicts a real event in the real world. Your inner sense of truth responds to a story's causality-- to whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions, the way the gods work their will among human beings."

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Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

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I don't know anybody, and nobody knows me. We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we "understand."

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Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

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"Any animal is willing to kill the Other," said Ender. "But the higher beings include more and more living things within their self-story, until at last there is no Other. Until the needs of others are more important than any private desires.

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Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

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it was all an elaborate pretense at normality, but in Valentine's experience, normality was always a pretense, people acting out what they thought were their expected roles.

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Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

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he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow.

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Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

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While they're asleep. The part of their brain that records sight or sound, it's firing off every hour or two while they sleep, even when all the sights and sounds are complete random nonsense, their brains just keep on trying to assemble it into something sensible. They try to make stories out of it. It's complete random nonsense with no possible correlation to the real world, and yet they turn it into these crazy stories. And then they forget them. All that work, coming up with these stories, and when they wake up they forget almost all of them. But when they do remember, then they try to make stories about those crazy stories, trying to fit them into their real lives.>

 

Speaker for the Dead (1986) - Orson Scott Card

 Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)

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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

Ender in Exile (2008) - Orson Scott Card

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But I find it quite possible to hate someone and still see their side of the argument between us.

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Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection? That would explain a lot of history.

 

Ender's Game (1977) - Orson Scott Card

 Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

The word for the world is forest - Ursula K Leguin

 The Word for World Is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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Touch was a main channel of communication among the forest people. Among Terrans touch is always likely to imply threat, aggression, and so for them there is often nothing between the formal handshake and the sexual caress.

Ancestral night - Elizabeth Bear [White Space 1]

Ancestral Night (Elizabeth Bear)

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I said, “Busywork, they used to call it. There’s absolutely no value to it. Economic value, or personal. There’s value in work you enjoy, or that serves a need. There’s no value in work for its own sake. It’s just . . . churn. Anxiety. Doing stuff to be doing stuff, not because it needs doing. There’s enough for everybody.”

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Ancestral Night (Elizabeth Bear)

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We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.

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En busca del tiempo perdido II. Por el camino de Swan - Marcel Proust

 

21 Lessons for the 21st Century [Yuval Noah Harari]

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Vaunted ‘human intuition’ is in reality ‘pattern recognition’.

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It turned out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will, but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted ‘human intuition’ is in reality ‘pattern recognition’.

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Hence it would be madness to block automation in fields such as transport and healthcare just in order to protect human jobs. After all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans – not jobs.

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We usually fail to realise that feelings are in fact calculations, because the rapid process of calculation occurs far below our threshold of awareness. We don’t feel the millions of neurons in the brain computing probabilities of survival and reproduction, so we erroneously believe that our fear of snakes, our choice of sexual mates, or our opinions about the European Union are the result of some mysterious ‘free will’.

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Both these cases may seem to smack of racism. But in fact, they are not racist. They are ‘culturist’. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against traditional racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted. Traditional racism is waning, but the world is now full of ‘culturists’.

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is what Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach have termed ‘the knowledge illusion’. We think we know a lot, even though individually we know very little, because we treat knowledge in the minds of others as if it were our own.

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Such hopes are grounded in a misunderstanding of how humans actually think. Most of our views are shaped by communal groupthink rather than individual rationality, and we hold on to these views out of group loyalty. Bombarding people with facts and exposing their individual ignorance is likely to backfire. Most people don’t like too many facts, and they certainly don’t like to feel stupid.

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in a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know. The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference.

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Have you any idea how many movies, novels and poems you have consumed over the years, and how these artefacts have carved and sharpened your idea of love? Romantic comedies are to love as porn is to sex and Rambo is to war. And if you think you can press some delete button and wipe out all trace of Hollywood from your subconscious and your limbic system, you are deluding yourself.

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In the minds of the illiterate peasants, who did not speak Latin, ‘Hoc est corpus!’ got garbled into ‘Hocus pocus!’ and thus was born the powerful spell that can transform a frog into a prince, and a pumpkin into a carriage.

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Fascism insisted that people should not believe any story except the nationalist story, and should have no identity except their national identity.

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It is particularly noteworthy that our fantasy self tends to be very visual, whereas our actual experiences are corporeal.

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you will never encounter something that does not change, that has an eternal essence, and that completely satisfies you. Suffering emerges because people fail to appreciate this. They believe that there is some eternal essence somewhere, and if they can only find it and connect to it, they will be completely satisfied. This eternal essence is sometimes called God, sometimes the nation, sometimes the soul, sometimes the authentic self, and sometimes true love – and the more people are attached to it, the more disappointed and miserable they become due to the failure to find it.

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Then the epic starts expanding, and people embark on a quest not just to liberate themselves from their own attachments, but also to convince others to do so. Having accepted that life has no meaning, I find meaning in explaining this truth to others, arguing with the unbelievers, giving lectures to the sceptics, donating money to build monasteries, and so on. ‘No story’ can all too easily become just another story.

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Many people, including many scientists, tend to confuse the mind with the brain, but they are really very different things. The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger and love. Biologists assume that the brain somehow produces the mind,

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Vortex - robert charles wilson [Spin #3]

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Agency—that is, volitional action aimed at achieving conscious ends—had arisen only sporadically in the galaxy, mostly in the climax ecologies of biologically active planets orbiting hospitable stars. Species capable of agency seldom lasted longer than it took them to overload and overwhelm their planetary ecologies. They were, as the stars measure time, an unstable and ephemeral phenomenon.
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Axis - Robert Charles Wilson [Spin #2]

The Lady Astronaut of Mars - Mary Robinette Kowal

The Fated Sky - Mary Robinette Kowal

 (Lady Astronaut, #2)

The Fated Sky (Mary Robinette Kowal)
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“My mother once told me that an apology wasn’t about being right or wrong, but showing that the relationship was more important than the problem. And you aren’t actually the problem.”
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The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal

 (Lady Astronaut, #2)

Exhalation - Ted Chiang

Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

Contents
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"
"Exhalation"
"What's Expected of Us"
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects"
"Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"
"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"
"The Great Silence"
"Omphalos"
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"

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People used to speculate about a thought that destroys the thinker, some unspeakable Lovecraftian horror, or a Gödel sentence that crashes the human logical system. It turns out that the disabling thought is one that we’ve all encountered: the idea that free will doesn’t exist. It just wasn’t harmful until you believed it.

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Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

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Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana’s tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they’re not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.

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Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

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I just want to make sure we’re clear about our motivations. It’d be terrific if our digients learned practical skills, but we shouldn’t think of them as failures if they don’t. Maybe Jax can make money, but Jax isn’t for making money. He’s not like the Draytas, or the weedbots. Whatever puzzles he might solve or work he might do, those aren’t the reason I’m raising him.

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Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

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Jax becomes interested in tetrabrake, a subculture focused on virtual dance choreography for four-armed avatars;

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Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

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“A new sexual frontier?” says Stuart. “You mean popularizing a kink until it becomes mainstream.” “You could call it that,” says Chase. “But try looking at it another way: our ideas of what constitutes healthy sex have always broadened over time. People used to think homosexuality, BDSM, and polyamory were all symptoms of psychological problems, but there’s nothing intrinsic about those activities that’s incompatible with a loving relationship. The problem was having one’s desires stigmatized by society.

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Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

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We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers,

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Diario de Golondrina - Amélie Nothomb

(Pag 27)
<< Es una reflexión filosófica. Sexo significa "lo que separa". Las personas bellas viven aparte del resto de la humanidad. que forma una masa hormigueante e indistinta. >>

Interference - Sue Burke

Semiosis - Sue Burke

Semiosis (Sue Burke)

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“Let’s remember to be supportive and listen, not debate. We’re here to solve a problem, not to win.”

More than human - Theodore Sturgeon

<< It was his turn to think a while. Finally he said, "The mind make us do funny things. Some of them seem completely reasonless, wrong, insae. But the cornerstone of the work we´re doing is this: there´s a chain of solid, unassailable logic in the things we do. Dig deep enough and you find cause and effect as clearly in this field as you do in any other. I said logic, mind; I didn´t say `correctness`or `rightness`or `justice`or anything of the sort. Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to dthe mind that´s performing the logic.>>

Exit Strategy - [Murderbot Diaries #4] - Martha wells

Rogue Protocol - [Murderbot Diaries #3] - Martha wells