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Uprooted cultural traditions collided in cities that filled with displaced populations. How to get along with each other in an ad hoc world was the critical question. Thus the times were right for thinking new thoughts about traditional
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This is happening today with massive imigration in the western world. Christian - Islamic - Jewish - Left - Atheism. conflict is inevitable.
“Spacetime is simply a species-specific desktop, and physical objects are icons on the desktop; or, as we have just been discussing, spacetime is a communications channel and physical objects are messages about fitness.”
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
“If we choose to measure its path and we discover, say, that it’s on the upper path, then for almost 14 billion years that photon has been on that path because of a choice we made today. If we had chosen instead to measure a superposition, then that photon would have a different history for the last 14 billion years. Our choice today determines billions of years of history.”
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
“The proper target of this objection is panpsychism, which claims that some physical objects also have consciousness.”
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
“conscious agent is dynamic: it perceives, decides, and acts.”
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
“It utterly fails to transcend the interface: it cannot explain how conscious experiences might arise from physical systems such as embodied brains.”
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
― The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
Steve Brule’s 2025 Year in Books
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