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A Story of Stories
The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six time scales. But the unit of survival is different at each of the six time scales. On a time scale of years, the unit is the individual. On a time scale of decades, the unit is the family. On a time sc... See more
Stewart Brand • Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
The Beginning of Infinity
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How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of millions? The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any large-scale human cooperation – wheth
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
What the ‘prevailing wisdom’ of the selfish gene, the tragedy of the commons, ‘red in tooth and claw’ actually show us is that we are deeply susceptible to stories about ourselves. Stories are so powerful that they can be employed to redirect our innate desire to be good and cause us to take an immoral action.