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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
... See moreLeonard Mlodinow • The Grand Design
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
I do believe that you can understand most of moral psychology by viewing it as a form of enlightened self-interest, and if it’s self-interest, then it’s easily explained by Darwinian natural selection working at the level of the individual. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Information is increasingly seen by many philosophers and biologists, and even by some physicists, as the most basic building block of reality, more elementary than matter and energy.[1]
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Hammurabi and the American Founding Fathers alike imagined a reality governed by universal and immutable principles of justice, such as equality or hierarchy. Yet the only place where such universal principles exist is in the fertile imagination of Sapiens, and in the myths they invent and tell one another. These principles have no objective validi
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Accordingly, liberalism was correct in counseling people to follow their hearts rather than the dictates of some priest or party apparatchik. However, soon computer algorithms might be able to give you better counsel than human feelings. As the Spanish Inquisition and the KGB give way to Google and Baidu, “free will” likely will be exposed as a myt
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
