Sylvano

“We can think about our own thoughts, reason about our own reasons, and communicate with each other through a shared language. We can access the machine code running in our brains by translating high-level abstract concepts into causally efficacious patterns of neural activity. This gives a physical basis for how decisions are made in real time, not just as the outcome of complex physical interactions but also for consciously accessible reasons, and it provides a firm footing for the otherwise troublesome concept of mental causation.”
― Kevin J. Mitchell, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

“One could in fact interpret this list as a subtle way of saying that the only way of “freeing oneself” from the debt was not literally repaying debts, but rather showing that these debts do not exist because one is not in fact separate to begin with, and hence that the very notion of canceling the debt and achieving a separate, autonomous existence was ridiculous from the start.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“The reader might be asking: But what does all this have to do with the origins of money? The answer is, surprisingly: everything.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“If argumentation is what we say, rhetoric is how we say it.”
― Bo Seo, Good Arguments: What the art of debating can teach us about listening better and disagreeing well