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“Religious belief is an attempt to endow your life with deeper meaning and embed it in a positive metacontext—it is the deeply human attempt to finally feel at home. It is a strategy to outsmart the hedonic treadmill. On an individual level, it seems to be one of the most successful ways to achieve a stable state—as good as or better than any drug so far discovered. Now science seems to be taking all this away from us. The emerging emptiness may be one reason for the current rise of religious fundamentalism, even in secular societies. Yes,”
― The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
― The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
“For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.”
― Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
― Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
“The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Analogy pervades all our thinking,”
― How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
― How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
“The illusion is irresistible. Behind every face there is a self. We see the signal of consciousness in a gleaming eye and imagine some ethereal space beneath the vault of the skull, lit by shifting patterns of feeling and thought, charged with intention. An essence. But what do we find in that space behind the face, when we look? The brute fact is there is nothing but material substance: flesh and blood and bone and brain…You look down into an open head, watching the brain pulsate, watching the surgeon tug and probe, and you understand with absolute conviction that there is nothing more to it. There’s no one there.”
― Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
― Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
Arvind’s 2025 Year in Books
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