* Reality is an illusion; illusion is also an illusion.
* I intend to complete this life busy, like a flower, exhaling the sweet scent of lovingkindness.
* We are not conscious; we only think we are.
* The limit to complete knowledge of the universe is transcended by being concurrently in two different universes, each modeling the other.
* Evolution shaped how we construct reality so as to emphasize what we need for survival and de-emphasize what is survival-irrelevant, such as non-locality.
* Life and quantum entanglement both requirement negative entropy, i.e., information storage, which requires negative feedback for homeostasis maintenance.
* Maintaining homeostasis requires sensors that are shielded from the system that receives and interprets their sensory input, so the system can without self-deception answer the question: What's happening?
* Maintaining homeostasis is favored by a system that uses past (stored) information and present input to anticipate the future, to answer the question: What next?
* Maintaining homeostasis is also favored by a system that accurately evaluates the relevance of past information, present input, and anticipations of the future, i.e., accurately answers the question: How important?
* Maintaining homeostasis is also favored by a system that has preferences for actions that tend to preserve homeostasis, i.e., that cares about its survival, that has preferences.
* Maintaining homeostasis is also favored by a system that can make survival-favoring choices.
* Maintaining homeostasis is also favored by a system that chooses among alternative actions, choosing those that it anticipates as most likely to lead to futures it prefers.
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