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On the flaws in the human perspective
19 Sep 2022
Hello,
New articles:
Ideologies are presented to us as distortions of reality—a synonym for ‘false belief’. But they are merely a subjective understanding of the relationship between things. In this sense, all things are ideologies. We can only choose those better or worse.
Full article at bottom of email
The secular world replaced the soul with a mind in the brain. Modern science of mind finds no such thing, but a collection of mini-minds which does not stop at the body, but extends into the world. This philosophy presents us a secular spirituality, a god we can all believe in.
Highlights from the Marginalia:
An argument for why intelligent people are less happy: because intelligence does not measure how good you are at solving the poorly defined problems of life
The psychology of killing: “once I began to spend time with people who had killed, I learned that killing is often highly contextual and arises from a specific set factors that are present at that time; which may never occur again”
We don’t have 100 biases: An argument that behavioural economics has fallen into a trap of simply creating a taxonomy of biases rather than an applicable model for thinking about human behaviour
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This week’s article selection: Everything is ideology
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