If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

