There is not an “I” and “the neurons in my brain.” They are the same thing. An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated.
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“George, you must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously. There is no grand purpose in the universe. It just is. There’s no particular meaning in what decision you make today about how to act.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The way forward would seem obvious, if only I knew how many months or years I had left. Tell me three months, I’d spend time with family. Tell me one year, I’d write a book. Give me ten years, I’d get back to treating diseases. The truth that you live one day at a time didn’t help: What was I supposed to do with that day?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air

“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle

“The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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