I personally cannot imagine that consciousness will be fully understood without reference to Godelian loops or level-crossing feedback loops. - Douglas Hofstadter

without concepts there can be no thought, and without analogies there can be no concepts.

Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.

The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.