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I sense that I am distinct in reality from my body and physical brain because I can observe them in the first person. This experience, my conscious subjective state, appears radically different from simply a lump of brain detecting the world or itself in a computerlike way. Viewing the world as...

Early writing systems like ancient Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Chinese began by using pictures or logograms for words. For the Akkadians, the word for God, "El"or "Ilu" in cuneiform, was written with an eight-legged star symbol that also signified the heavens. The Canaanites and Hebrews...