A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
I__ been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I__ seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the first time I saw it: self-respect. If you make the mistake of holding the gaze of a street monkey in India, Nepal, or Malaysia, you__l find you__e facing a belligerently intelligent creature whose expression says, with a Robert DeNiro__ike scowl, __hat the hell are you looking at? You wanna piece of me?_ Forget about putting one of these guys in a little red vest.
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I__ been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I__ seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the first time I saw it: self-respect. If you make the mistake of holding the gaze of a street monkey in India, Nepal, or Malaysia, you__l find you__e facing a belligerently intelligent creature whose expression says, with a Robert DeNiro__ike scowl, __hat the hell are you looking at? You wanna piece of me?_ Forget about putting one of these guys in a little red vest.
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