A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
Atlas Shrugged
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Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
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