The only advantage of e-therapists," Maura murmured, "is that their horseshit is cheaper than humans'. - Stephen Baxter

Almost all of history was a carefully constructed mythology for use as propaganda or nation building.

“No. You are wrong. These structures are alive.”
“What?”
“By any reasonable definition of the word. They can reproduce themselves. They can manipulate the external world, creating local conditions of increased order. They have internal states which can change independently of external inputs; they have memories which can be accessed at will…All these are characteristics of Life, and Mind.

Paul closed his eyes, hoping to make the incomprehensible Universe disappear into the vacuum from which it had sprung.