“My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world.”

“My own sense of how to behave in a simulation has more traditional roots in the theory of perception. I’ve long believed that each of us lives in an egocentric simulation of the world run by the mind/brain. Since the zombies of each (waking) simulation have sentient real world counterparts, one should treat them as though they were real. Nonetheless as an angst-ridden teenager, my dawning acceptance of an inferential realist theory of perception made me feel as if I’d been condemned to solitary confinement for life. The sense of loneliness was indescribable. Naïve realism is better for one’s mental health.”

“I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.”

“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing”

“The social stock of knowledge differentiates reality by degrees of familiarity… my knowledge of my own occupation and its world is very rich and specific, while I have only very sketchy knowledge of the occupational worlds of others.”

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!”

“The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled”

“It is ironic that when the priority is personal safety, the world becomes a very dangerous world. It becomes a world in which everyone is doing things for their own individual best interests. It becomes a society of control, strategy and zero-sum games.”

“I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.”

“Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.”