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“The Buddhists were right about this…getting attached is an attempt to create stability…control—whether of the world or even of our own selves—is ultimately futile…We helplessly strive to control the uncontrollable.”
Reminiscent of The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.” Fitzgerald understood Buddhism—who would’ve thunk it?
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Reminiscent of The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.” Fitzgerald understood Buddhism—who would’ve thunk it?
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"The internet is not the world so much as it is a shadow cast by the world...Imagine that shadow flickering on the wall of Plato's cave, where artificial agents are confined and forced to rely on the shadow as their sole source of knowledge. Should such a being ever actually emerge from the cave...it would be to a consciousness so radically different from our own was to demand a new label." pg. 116
— Mar 30, 2026 07:27AM
Christine Beverly
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"The internet is not the world so much as it is a shadow cast by the world...Imagine that shadow flickering on the wall of Plato's cave, where artificial agents are confined and forced to rely on the shadow as their sole source of knowledge. Should such a being ever actually emerge from the cave...it would be to a consciousness so radically different from our own was to demand a new label." pg. 116
— Mar 30, 2026 07:25AM
Christine Beverly
is on page 121 of 320
" 'Technology,' as Turkle writes, 'can make us forget what we know about life.' " (pg. 112)
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