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Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society. — David Marusek

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... I tell you that loneliness itself is the secret. It's a secret you cannot tell anyone. Why?
Because to confess your loneliness is to confess your failure as a human being. To confess would only cause others to pity and avoid you, afraid that what you have is catching. Your condition is caused by a lack of human relationship, and yet to admit to it only drives your possible rescuers farther away (while attracting cats).
So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though you have too many friends already, and thus you hope to attract people who will unwittingly save you. But it never works that way. Your condition is written all over your face, in the hunch of your shoulders, in the hollowness of your laugh. You fool no one.
Believe me in this; I've tried all the tricks of the lonely man. — David Marusek

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Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them. — David Marusek

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Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated as if you were petting the actual cat. Our minds may know the difference between its models and reality itself, but it prefers its models. So much so that we apprehend reality through our models, rather than directly via the sense. When I'm speaking to you, I have a little bishop in my head, and though I speak out load, I'm speaking to my little bishop. When you answer, I can only perceive you through my model of you.
Mentars also make models, but they don't apprehend reality through them. They end up, not with little people in their minds, but with highly complex rule sets. They relate to their models in the same way we relate to weather models, as things to consult, but not to conflate with external reality. — David Marusek

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Who among us can claim normalcy, Bishop? — David Marusek

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Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. — David Marusek

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Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls ... The genius of the irrational ... This is the body's intelligence, not the mind's. Every living cell possess it ... [the] indomitable will to survive. — David Marusek

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Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns. — David Marusek

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In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed. — David Marusek

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What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods. — David Marusek

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And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life. — David Marusek

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I suppose that in a dark room, even a dim bulb feels bright. — David Marusek

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Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist. — David Marusek

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The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous. — David Marusek