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Hobbes believed that people could escape this hellish existence only by surrendering their autonomy to a sovereign person or assembly. He called it a leviathan, the Hebrew word for a monstrous sea creature subdued by Yahweh at the dawn of
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“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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Neuroscience bookclub
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A group created by members of the COURSERA/Duke University Medical neuroscience class of 2013. Our intent is to explore a broad variety of popular neu ...more
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