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Much of life’s wisdom may be found in the original Star Trek. In the episode “What are Little Girls Made Of?” a scientist has made androids into which he was able (he thought) to transfer his own consciousness, but in the end, realized he had become only a machine after all. Pinocchio in reverse, as it were. Much of this wisdom is gone by The Next Generation and further iterations. At one point in the original, Lt. Uhura had the line “Don’t you see? They aren’t talking about the sun up in the sky, but the Son of God.” TNG later referred to other civilizations as going through their superstitious/religious phase. By Deep Space 9, religion is totally corrupt and venal. Oh, well…

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A great irony is that this conversation itself is the guy in the gorilla suit (especially this installment), but those that have aligned, or aspire to align, their wetware towards being human are the most likely readers: the rest are staring Yuval Harari in the eyes while a guy in a gorilla suit is walking right behind him.

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