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The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and re...

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I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for ou...

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Max TegmarkOur Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...

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Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand ...

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Sam HarrisThe Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

When people have different ideas about which of these four modes of interacting applies to a current...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. A...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin...

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You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

There are two aspects of man’s existence which are the special province and expression of his sense ...

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Ayn RandThe Romantic Manifesto

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in t...

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The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

Having escaped the Dark Ages in which animals were mere stimulus-response machines, we are free to c...

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Frans de WaalAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

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George LakoffPhilosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought