"the human brain is a magnificent, ornate, powerful pattern-matching engine. It has nothing to do with reason and logic, though. The surprise is not that humans are often irrational -- it is that we are ever logical at all."

I don't understand why you think logic is patternless, or whatever it is that makes you think that a pattern-matching engine won't exhibit logic.

"From the cosmic point of view, all that ever has been or ever shall be exists equally."
"But what really matters is the probability of getting from state A where I am now, to state B in the future. That, I can influence."

These two seem directly contradictory.