- Subrayado en la página 28 | Pos. 422 | Añadido el domingo 26 de abril de 2020 13H11' GMT+00:00
Vaunted ‘human intuition’ is in reality ‘pattern recognition’.
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- Subrayado en la página 28 | Pos. 421-22 | Añadido el domingo 26 de abril de 2020 13H11' GMT+00:00
It turned out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will, but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted ‘human intuition’ is in reality ‘pattern recognition’.
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- Subrayado en la página 32 | Pos. 484-85 | Añadido el domingo 26 de abril de 2020 13H26' GMT+00:00
Hence it would be madness to block automation in fields such as transport and healthcare just in order to protect human jobs. After all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans – not jobs.
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- Subrayado en la página 56 | Pos. 845-48 | Añadido el miércoles 29 de abril de 2020 19H39' GMT+00:00
We usually fail to realise that feelings are in fact calculations, because the rapid process of calculation occurs far below our threshold of awareness. We don’t feel the millions of neurons in the brain computing probabilities of survival and reproduction, so we erroneously believe that our fear of snakes, our choice of sexual mates, or our opinions about the European Union are the result of some mysterious ‘free will’.
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- Subrayado en la página 154 | Pos. 2360-62 | Añadido el viernes 1 de mayo de 2020 15H57' GMT+00:00
Both these cases may seem to smack of racism. But in fact, they are not racist. They are ‘culturist’. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against traditional racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted. Traditional racism is waning, but the world is now full of ‘culturists’.
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- Subrayado en la página 216 | Pos. 3309-11 | Añadido el domingo 3 de mayo de 2020 14H18' GMT+00:00
is what Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach have termed ‘the knowledge illusion’. We think we know a lot, even though individually we know very little, because we treat knowledge in the minds of others as if it were our own.
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Such hopes are grounded in a misunderstanding of how humans actually think. Most of our views are shaped by communal groupthink rather than individual rationality, and we hold on to these views out of group loyalty. Bombarding people with facts and exposing their individual ignorance is likely to backfire. Most people don’t like too many facts, and they certainly don’t like to feel stupid.
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in a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know. The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference.
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Have you any idea how many movies, novels and poems you have consumed over the years, and how these artefacts have carved and sharpened your idea of love? Romantic comedies are to love as porn is to sex and Rambo is to war. And if you think you can press some delete button and wipe out all trace of Hollywood from your subconscious and your limbic system, you are deluding yourself.
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- Subrayado en la página 278 | Pos. 4258-60 | Añadido el jueves 7 de mayo de 2020 02H20' GMT+00:00
In the minds of the illiterate peasants, who did not speak Latin, ‘Hoc est corpus!’ got garbled into ‘Hocus pocus!’ and thus was born the powerful spell that can transform a frog into a prince, and a pumpkin into a carriage.
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Fascism insisted that people should not believe any story except the nationalist story, and should have no identity except their national identity.
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It is particularly noteworthy that our fantasy self tends to be very visual, whereas our actual experiences are corporeal.
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you will never encounter something that does not change, that has an eternal essence, and that completely satisfies you. Suffering emerges because people fail to appreciate this. They believe that there is some eternal essence somewhere, and if they can only find it and connect to it, they will be completely satisfied. This eternal essence is sometimes called God, sometimes the nation, sometimes the soul, sometimes the authentic self, and sometimes true love – and the more people are attached to it, the more disappointed and miserable they become due to the failure to find it.
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Then the epic starts expanding, and people embark on a quest not just to liberate themselves from their own attachments, but also to convince others to do so. Having accepted that life has no meaning, I find meaning in explaining this truth to others, arguing with the unbelievers, giving lectures to the sceptics, donating money to build monasteries, and so on. ‘No story’ can all too easily become just another story.
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- Subrayado en la página 309 | Pos. 4738-40 | Añadido el jueves 14 de mayo de 2020 14H07' GMT+00:00
Many people, including many scientists, tend to confuse the mind with the brain, but they are really very different things. The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger and love. Biologists assume that the brain somehow produces the mind,
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