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The provided excerpts come from Tor Nørretranders' book, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, which explores the nature of consciousness and the self through the lens of information theory and physics. Nørretranders posits that consciousness acts as a "user illusion," similar to a computer interface, by filtering the massive amount of sensory information processed by the unconscious mind, reserving only a tiny fraction for conscious awareness. The text discusses complex concepts like entropy and thermodynamics in relation to information, the historical development of these ideas through figures like Maxwell and Boltzmann, and the implications of theories such as Gödel's incompleteness theorem and Turing's halting problem for the limits of human knowledge. Furthermore, the book examines the delayed and interpretive nature of conscious experience, contrasting the limited capacity of the conscious self (I) with the vast, automatic processes of the larger self (Me), and touches upon topics ranging from subliminal perception and neurophysiology to the evolution of consciousness and the Gaia hypothesis.