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The Concept of Mind
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The Book Of Disquiet
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Giacomo Leopardi
“In all our actions, including those that appear selfless, we are in search of some kind of pleasure, even if it is only the pleasure of self-esteem. But while our desire for pleasure is infinite, our mental and physical organs are capable only of limited and temporary pleasures; and this mismatch between desire and capacity dooms us to perpetual dissatisfaction. There is no pleasure big or total enough to quench, even momentarily, our thirst for pleasure. But since the absence of pleasure is pain, it follows that we are always in pain, even when we might believe otherwise. And if life is nothing but an unbroken experience of pain, it would be better for every human being never to have been born.”
Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone

Eugene Thacker
“But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I’ve managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.”
Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

Eugene Thacker
“The last word of philosophy is loneliness.”
Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

Eugene Thacker
“A crying baby is the purest expression of the inanity of being human.”
Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“Of course, no one’s immune to these biases; I’ve caught myself cherry-picking data on more than one occasion. To that extent we all live in glass houses. But there are ways of error-checking yourself, if you care to use them. The scientific method, at its heart, is a set of tools explicitly designed to break through bias and shine a light on the empirical information underneath. Recognizing our prejudices, we can overcome them. But one thing we cannot do—and it has taken me so very long to realize this—is reason successfully with those who reject such tools. Logic doesn’t matter to a Jehovah’s Witness. Fossils mean nothing to a creationist. All the data in the world will not change the mind of a true climate-change denier.4 You cannot reason with these people. You cannot take them seriously. It is a waste of energy to even try.”
Peter Watts, Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays

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