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Our sense of our own freedom results from our not paying close attention to what it is like to be us.
Sam Harris • Free Will
To state that there is no God or that there is a God, then, necessarily entails faith. And so the declaration that science is the only arbiter of truth is not itself a scientific finding. It is a belief.
Timothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Frankfurt’s astute observation of where that leads us feels prophetic in 2017. He argues that once we decide that it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, we simply resort to being true to ourselves. This, to me, is the birthplace of one of the great bullshit problems of our time: the “you’re either with us or against us” argument.
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
As Luke Muehlhauser writes, in The Power of Agency:11 You are not a Bayesian homunculus whose reasoning is “corrupted” by cognitive biases. You just are cognitive biases.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. The purpose of this book is to give the answers that are suggested by recent discoveries and theoreti
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