☞ The Messiness of Reality and Stories
Do I really have to follow some kind of narrative? Can't I just live? So be more with comfortable with messy. Be more comfortable with agnostic, and I mean this about the things that make you feel good.
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world or life (or whatever) is this place where everything is (or is supposed to be) basically logical and consistent.
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
The apparent determinism of the macroscopic world is due only to the fact that the microscopic randomness cancels out on average, leaving only fluctuations too minute for us to perceive in everyday life.
Carlo Rovelli • Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
I asked Murphy, who has, in the past, said he identified as an atheist, if such a confluence ever made him wonder if there was indeed a higher power organizing all of this. “Ohhh,” he said. “I love the chaos and the randomness. I love the beauty of the unexpected.”