He works his way up, finally, the grand staircase and then a smaller staircase until he reaches the attic.

They're all searching for their staircase.

This is the steriolithography of a staircase.

Here's a key passage where he basically describes the staircase.

I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.

We climb the staircase and experience a state of altered consciousness.

And I think if Grace Kelly is the most glamorous person, maybe a spiral staircase with glass block may be the most glamorous interior shot, because a spiral staircase is incredibly glamorous.

I got that staircase for 20 dollars, including delivery to my lot.

But you don't need a religion to get you through the staircase.

One of the most common is climbing the secret staircase and losing ourselves.

Neil Selinger, to me, is the embodiment of mounting the staircase in his third act.

The world's many religions have found so many ways to help people climb the staircase.

So, I'm plugging along here and I'm just going to have to blow up the staircase.

JH So note how Bradley's petty, moralistic self just dies on the way up the staircase.

But sometimes it's as though a doorway appears from out of nowhere and it opens onto a staircase.

And most importantly, if the staircase is real, it explains the persistent undercurrent of dissatisfaction in modern life.

So here's the million dollar question for social scientists like me Is the staircase a feature of our evolutionary design?

We needed to see skin moving over muscle moving over bone.

I'm saying we are Homo duplex and this staircase takes us up from the profane level to the level of the sacred.

We are moving to cities. We are moving up in the world.

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This man is angry because somebody threw onions all over the staircase, and basically you know, I guess onions are a theme here.

So let me show you the scene, and then I basically used the trick that was identified by Sergei Eisenstein, which is, if you have a camera that's moving with a moving object, what is not moving appears to be moving, and what is moving appears to be stopped, so what you're actually seeing now is the train is not moving at all, and what is actually moving is the floor.

The big one is moving very slowly, and the small one is moving fast.

So, here you can see her moving her eyes around, moving her mouth around.

It stopped moving.

So, moving onward.

But moving on.

Anyway, moving along.

And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.

The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary upwards to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.

And they were moving and grinding and moving their arms up and down each other.

I can't be certain if the staircase is an adaptation rather than a bug, but if it is an adaptation, then the implications are profound.

They're just not moving.

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It's baleen. Moving on.

It's also moving vertically.

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And those moving gently.

And those moving gently.

And this is becoming common, it's moving very quickly, it's moving in a whole series of places.

Do you see the middle section moving down and the outer sections moving up? It's completely static.

And there are things moving towards greater complexity, moving towards greater diversity, moving towards greater specialization, sentience, ubiquity and most important, evolvability Those very same things are also present in technology.

Now let me say something about the staircase, which may seem like an odd metaphor for seniors given the fact that many seniors are challenged by stairs.

Two rockets landed in Kiryat Shmona one landed on a staircase of a three story apartment building and another completely destroyed a living room of a house.