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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.