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Os humanos continuam fascinados pelo tópico das origens por muitas razões, tanto lógicas como emocionais. Não conseguimos compreender a essência de coisa nenhuma sem saber de onde veio.
Neil deGrasse Tyson • Origens: Catorze bilhões de anos de evolução cósmica (Portuguese Edition)
Because it is so impractical to use the underlying physical laws to predict human behavior, we adopt what is called an effective theory. In physics, an effective theory is a framework created to model certain observed phenomena without describing in detail all of the underlying processes.
Leonard Mlodinow • The Grand Design
The more we understand the human mind in causal terms, the harder it becomes to draw a distinction between cases like 4 and 5.
Sam Harris • Free Will

Gresham’s Law can explain why the median consumer reads low-quality information online. On the Internet, low-quality content drives out high-quality content, as the most wide-read articles are polarizing and emotionally jarring. First, they distort the truth by eliminating nuance and adding emotional charge to important topics. If you check almost
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obtuse.
Sam Harris • Free Will

The more controversial premise in the argument is premise 2, that the universe began to exist. Let me present two philosophical arguments and two scientific arguments in defense of this premise.