Cliff Notes
(Quotation cited in Ray Kurzweil’s book, The Age of Spiritual Machines)
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“I often dream about falling. Such dreams are commonplace to the ambitious or those who climb mountains. Lately, I dreamed I was clutching at the face of a rock, but it would not hold. Gravel gave way. I grasped for a shrub, but it pulled loose, and in cold terror I fell into the abyss. Suddenly I realized that my fall was relative; there was no bottom and no end. A feeling of pleasure overcame me…”
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– written by Heinz Pagels, physicist and quantum researcher, shortly before his death in a 1988 climbing accident.