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My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It’s essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don’t. The reality isn’t important; what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
We internalize the texture of the voices we’re exposed to. When you expose yourself to complex stories about the inner lives of other people over long periods of time, that will repattern your consciousness. You too will become more perceptive, open, and empathetic. If, by contrast, you expose yourself for hours a day to the disconnected fragments
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The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns
He said that “we have to shrink the world to fit our cognitive bandwidth.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Alexander von Humboldt • Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
creativity and imagination”—it’s
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
This is destroying our sense-making, at a time when we need it the most.