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It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
~ Rudy Rucker
Inherently
Mind
Processes
Realize
Soothing
Uncontrollable
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It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
~ Rudy Rucker
About
After
Being
End
Going
Good
Half
Hour
How
Know
Like
Movie
Obvious
Out
Particularly
Something
Tedious
Very
Watch
Worked
You
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Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
~ Rudy Rucker
Been
Computation
Convince
Everything
Lately
Myself
Working
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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
~ Rudy Rucker
Being
Could
Fail
Fiction
Fiction Writer
I See
I Wonder
Natural
Now
Principle
Science
Science Fiction
See
Wonder
Writer
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One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
~ Rudy Rucker
About
Carry
Experiments
Fiction
Lets
Nice
Nice Things
Out
Science
Science Fiction
Things
Thought
Us
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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
~ Rudy Rucker
Arbitrary
Characters
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Happens
Out
Put
Rules
Science
Science Fiction
Science Fiction Writers
Work
Work Out
World
Writers
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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
~ Rudy Rucker
Absolutely
Automatic
Become
Book
Me
Never
Selling
Story
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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
~ Rudy Rucker
Around
Before
Chew
Fiction
Funky
Ideas
Lot
Play
Roll
Science
Science Fiction
Some
Them
Then
Turn
You
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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
~ Rudy Rucker
Does
Everyone
Fact
Get
Hard
Published
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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
~ Rudy Rucker
About
Finding
Science
Shortcuts
Traditional
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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
~ Rudy Rucker
Evil
Morons
Nation
Nay
Our
Our World
Run
Unfortunately
World
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Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Because
Position
Skeptical
Truly
Uncertain
Very
Would
Would-Be
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I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
About
Area
Cause
Clear
Dealing
Edge
Going
Know
Leading
Science
Talking
Things
Way
Where
Which
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Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Chaotic
Determined
Inherently
Most
Nature
Old
Predictable
Sense
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Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
About
Be Different
Call
Computer
Designed
Different
Every
Every Time
Machines
Now
Point
Processing
Program
Random
Same
Stay
Time
Up
Want
Whole
Word
You
Your
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Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Been
Being
Coming
Coming Home
Dogs
Experiments
Far
Home
Know
Masters
Most
Pets
Sense
Seven
Stared
Who
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Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
About
Any
Anyone
Cannot
Coming
Coming Home
Dogs
Home
Knows
Means
Nobody
Now
Opinion
Owner
Really
Right
Some
Tell
Unknown
Weight
Whether
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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Being
Collective
Each
Idea
Influenced
Kind
Living
Memory
Nature
New
New York
Now
Past
Squirrel
Squirrels
Take
Thing
York
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There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Bear
Certain
Kind
Scepticism
Uncertainty
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
~ Ruth Benedict
Actively
Begins
Gratitude
He
Himself
His
Job
Man
Virtue
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