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Over the last few decades biologists have reached the firm conclusion that the man pressing the buttons and drinking the tea is also an algorithm.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
(one study describes our minds as a “menu of illusions”2).
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Their own experience of their own nature might have contributed something to this idea of a self within but somehow independent of the body.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Look, sometimes you have to make quick decisions. You can’t just have humans make them; you have to combine human and machine methods.”
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Indeed, people tend to fool themselves with their self-narrative of “national identity,” which, in a breakthrough paper in Science by sixty-five authors, was shown to be a total fiction. (“National traits” might be great for movies, they might help a lot with war, but they are Platonic notions that carry no empirical validity—yet, for example, both
... See moreNassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan
Without conditional predictions of this kind, there would be no way for the brain to know which action, among countless possible actions, would be most likely to reduce sensory prediction errors.
Anil Seth • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
une idée est plus crédible lorsqu’elle est la conséquence d’études dans différents domaines45.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
Psychologist Philip Tetlock once wrote: “We need to believe we live in a predictable, controllable world, so we turn to authoritative-sounding people who promise to satisfy that need.”
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
... See moreSo the brain creates our experience of the world. Next it conjures us, the self at its centre. It is a hero-maker, manufacturing both the illusion of self and its gripping narrative, framing our life as a journey towards a hopeful destination. The story it tells even has a narrator, an inner voice that chirrups away, performing a live improvisation