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The Self Is Not So Much Linked To Its Ancestors, It Is Not So Much The Product, And Merely The Product, Of All That, But Rather, In The Strictest Sense Of The Word, The Same Thing As All That: The Strict, Direct Continuation Of It, Just As The Self Aged Fifty Is The Continuation Of The Self Aged Forty.

No Self Is Of Itself Alone. It Has A Long Chain Of Intellectual Ancestors. The "i" Is Chained To Ancestry By Many Factors ... This Is Not Mere Allegory, But An Eternal Memory.

[a Living Organism] ... Feeds Upon Negative Entropy ... Thus The Device By Which An Organism Maintains Itself Stationary At A Fairly High Level Of Orderliness (= Fairly Low Level Of Entropy) Really Consists In Continually Sucking Orderliness From Its Environment.

The Plurality That We Perceive Is Only An Appearance; It Is Not Real. Vedantic Philosophy... Has Sought To Clarify It By A Number Of Analogies, One Of The Most Attractive Being The Many-faceted Crystal Which, While Showing Hundreds Of Little Pictures Of What Is In Reality A Single Existent Object, Does Not Really Multiply That Object.

[plato] Was The First To Envisage The Idea Of Timeless Existence And To Emphasize It-against Reason-as A Reality, More [real] Than Our Actual Experience.