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"LONG overdue, but finally got myself around re-starting it. As is known, it's much more technical than The Experience Machine, but all the more fascinating because of that. The nitty-gritty is indispensible for a real taste of just how powerful and promising PP is. Clark's constant emphasis on action-prediction loops and on integration with enactive/embodied cognition are major pluses here too. Beautiful stuff." — Jan 16, 2026 10:01AM
"LONG overdue, but finally got myself around re-starting it. As is known, it's much more technical than The Experience Machine, but all the more fascinating because of that. The nitty-gritty is indispensible for a real taste of just how powerful and promising PP is. Clark's constant emphasis on action-prediction loops and on integration with enactive/embodied cognition are major pluses here too. Beautiful stuff." — Jan 16, 2026 10:01AM
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― To Jerusalem and Back
― To Jerusalem and Back
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.”
― Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
― Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
“The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”
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“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
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Hélio’s 2025 Year in Books
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