Setayesh Dashti

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In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

by Giorgio Parisi

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"It is striking how in both physics and mathematics, there’s a lack of proportion between the effort needed to understand something for the first time and the simplicity and naturalness of the solution once all the required stages have been completed. In the sciences as in poetry, there’s hardly a trace in the finish product … of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in order to achieve it." — Oct 24, 2026 04:12PM

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Philosophy of Mind (Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy)

by Torin Alter

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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Loitering on Earth potentially meant finding oneself abruptly classed as biologically unacceptable, a menace to the pristine heredity of the race. Once pegged as special, a citizen, even if accepting sterilization, dropped out of history. ...more

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Setayesh’s Quotes

“A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

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“After the Reichstag fire, Hannah Arendt wrote that “I was no longer of the opinion that one can simply be a bystander.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

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“Le bourgeois (c'est-à-dire l'humanité entière maintenant, y compris le peuple) se conduit envers les classiques comme envers la religion : il sait qu'ils sont, serait fâché qu'ils ne fussent pas, comprend qu'ils ont une certaine utilité très éloignée, mais il n'en use nullement et ça l'embête beaucoup, voilà.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance 3e série. 1852-1854

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“Qu'importent nos ennuis, nos défaillances, la lenteur d'exécution et le dégoût de l'oeuvre ensuite, si nous sommes toujours en progrès ! Si nous montons, qu'importe le but ! Si nous galopons, qu'importe l'auberge ! Ce perpétuel malaise n'est-il pas une garantie de délicatesse, une preuve de foi !”
― Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance 3e série. 1852-1854

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