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• When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.

  Usama Fayyad

  Wall, Errors, Judging

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

  David Brooks

  Sleep, Brain, Levels

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Believe, Our World, Order

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