Is all what we see or seem, but a dream within a dream? --Poe

i don't understand anything.

"dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life?" --havelock ellis

i thought this was true when i read it:

"Death is a tragedy. It is not demeaning to regard a person as a profound pattern (a form of knowledge), which is lost when he or she dies. That, at least, is the case today, since we do not yet have the means to access and back up this knowledge. When people speak of losing a part of themselves when a loved one dies, they are speaking quite literally, since we lose the ability to effectively use the neural patterns in our brain that had self-organized to interact with that person."

i'd say that seems accurate. it's from The Singularity is Near. i'm on page 417/487.