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The state hopes to regulate the biochemical pursuit of happiness, separating ‘bad’ manipulations from ‘good’ ones.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
All these would be rather trivial concerns had Lahontan’s books not been so successful; but they were to have an enormous impact on European sensibilities.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

With that preface, let’s examine an area of science that defies our everyday senses, but which has been proven
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
as though something in the colour’s chemical structure invoked violence: a fault, a shadow, an existential stain passed down from those experiments in which the alchemist dismembered living animals to create it, assembling their broken bodies in dreadful chimeras
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
“Do you really believe that water is toxic, love?” Yamasuki asked, tears in her eyes. Prior to the experiment she had asked him repeatedly to replace the proposition with a false one that was entirely harmless, but he had refused. He nodded. “I do.” He looked up at the crowd, helplessness and confusion in his eyes. “I do. I really do.” “Let me repe
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)

“an exhaustive list of purported ailments—[is] carried around by a neurotic patient, often accompanied by extensive documentation of each bowel movement or sip of water.”
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
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