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“What are we running out of? We’ve only been gone a day. Fuel? Food?” “Worse. Cigarettes,”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.”
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“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.”
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.”
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.”
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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