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“You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart.”
― Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
― Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
“This emphasis on the will reaches back to the sustained crisis of James’s youth. In a diary entry dated April 30, 1870, as a first indication of his recovering from his depressive breakdown, he had resolutely written, “My first act of free will will be to believe in free will.”
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
“To seek the satisfaction of the mattering instinct in our connections with others with whom we are intimately bonded—our family, lovers, friends, colleagues, community members—seems to many people the most salubrious path to satisfying the mattering instinct,”
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
“Consisting of roughly 86 billion neurons, connected by roughly a hundred trillion synapses, the human brain is the most complicated object on this planet designed to resist entropy.”
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
“Schopenhauer, philosophy’s reigning pessimist, wrote, “Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
― The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
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