Just as we believe in other people’s kidneys and brains (thanks almost entirely to arguments from analogy and authority), so we come to believe in our own kidneys and brains: Just as we believe in everyone else’s mortality (again, thanks primarily to arguments from analogy and authority), so we come, eventually, to believe in our own mortality, as well in the reality of the obituary notices about us that will appear in local papers even though we know we will never be able to flip those pages and read those notices.
— Hofstadter, Douglas R. I Am a Strange Loop. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basic Books, 2007.
