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“If argumentation is what we say, rhetoric is how we say it.”
― Good Arguments: What the art of debating can teach us about listening better and disagreeing well
― Good Arguments: What the art of debating can teach us about listening better and disagreeing well
“And then, at some point, actors emerged on this stage. Simple lifeless components were somehow assembled into forms that held themselves apart from these general happenings and instead acted on the world. Entities that do things came into existence.”
― Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
― Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
“The suggestion that the fundamental logic underlying these methods is broken should be terrifying.”
― Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
― Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
“The reader might be asking: But what does all this have to do with the origins of money? The answer is, surprisingly: everything.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“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.”
― Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
― Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
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