Sylvano

“This is because there is every reason to believe that slavery, with its unique ability to rip human beings from their contexts, to turn them into abstractions, played a key role in the rise of markets everywhere.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“we must make a distinction between those who are morally competent and those who are not. This, I have long held, is the fundamental pivot; this is the variety of free will worth wanting.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Just Deserts: Debating Free Will

“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

“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