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Intelligent and educated people are less likely to learn from their mistakes, for instance, or take advice from others. And when they do err, they are better able to build elaborate arguments to justify their reasoning, meaning that they
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“No one is having an experience of the objective reality that really exists; each creature perceives only what it has evolved to perceive.”
― The Brain: The Story of You
― The Brain: The Story of You
“Genocide is only possible when dehumanization happens on a massive scale, and the perfect tool for this job is propaganda: it keys right into the neural networks that understand other people, and dials down the degree to which we empathize with them.”
― The Brain: The Story of You
― The Brain: The Story of You
Varun’s 2024 Year in Books
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