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

“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.”
― Kevin J. Mitchell, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us 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

“Hate to also tell you this, but … your smartphone is nothing more than an advertising billboard in your pocket.”
― Judson Brewer, Unwinding Anxiety: Train Your Brain to Heal Your Mind?– The New York Times Bestseller