The Truth was the presumptuous name of the religion,…It arose from the belief that what appeared to be real life must in fact—according to some pious… - Iain Banks
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The Truth was the presumptuous name of the religion,…It arose from the belief that what appeared to be real life must in fact—according to some piously invoked statistical certitudes—be a simulation being run within some prodigious computational substrate in a greater and more encompassing reality beyond. This was a thought that had in some form, crossed the minds of most people and all civilisations…. However, everybody—well, virtually everybody, obviously—quickly or eventually came around to the idea that a difference that made no difference wasn’t a difference to be much bothered about, and one might as well get on with (what appeared to be) life.
Iain Menzies Banks (February 16, 1954 – June 9, 2013), officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. As Iain M. Banks he wrote science fiction; as Iain Banks he wrote literary fiction.
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I shall take that as meaning I am not being too hopelessly foolish." "You may still be, but then so may I." "Yes, well, let's not make a competition out of it.
"So basically you're sticking around to watch us all fuck up ?" "Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants."
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