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The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
More than 20 years ago, two philosophers, Andy Clark and David Chalmers, wrote a journal article that opened with a question: “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” Now, that question would seem to have an obvious answer, right? The mind stops at the head. It’s contained within the skull. But Clark and Chalmers maintained that
... See moreAnnie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.
Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion
But a human brain is a flawed lens that can understand its own flaws—its systematic errors, its biases—and apply second-order corrections to them.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
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