— Life is like a node which is born within the flow of information. As a species of life that carries DNA as its memory system… man gains his individuality from the memories he carries. While memories may as well be the same as fantasy… it is by these memories that mankind exists. Computerization — the ability to operate with unthinkable numbers — raised memory to a whole new level, which entailed unforeseen consequences.
— Nonsense! All this chatter does not prove in any way that you are a living, thinking being.
— Can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?
Don't forget who you are. The best part of me is well-hidden and you have to do the same. Remember it all, every insult, every tear.
Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I remember,
involve me and I learn.
By the 1980s Benjamin Franklin was incorrectly receiving credit for an instance.