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Mysteries offer no such clarity of definition, and no objectively correct solution: they are imbued with vagueness and indeterminacy. We approach mysteries by asking ‘What is going on here?’, and recognise that even afterwards our understanding is likely to be only partial. They provide none of the comfort and pleasure of reaching the ‘right’... See more

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In complexity economics, agents differ and in general lack full knowledge of each other and of the situation they are in. Fundamental uncertainty is therefore the norm; ill-defined problems are the norm; and rationality is not necessarily well defined. Agents explore and learn and adapt and open to novel behavior. Outcomes may not be in

W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium

Whatever supposition I should adopt, had I not equal reason to tremble? What was my security against influences equally terrific and equally irresistable?

Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale

My writings are not stand-alone essays on specific topics, with beginnings, ends, and expiration dates; rather, they are nonoverlapping chapters from that central idea, a main corpus focused on uncertainty, randomness, probability, disorder, and what to do in a world we don’t understand, a world with unseen elements and properties, the random and... See more

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle

“Il dubbio è per Agostino un passaggio obbligato per raggiungere la verità; anzi, richiamando Socrate, Agostino sosteneva che il dubbio stesso fosse espressione della verità, perché non potrei dubitare se non ci fosse una verità che appunto si sottrae al dubbio. La verità, pertanto, non può essere conosciuta in se stessa, ma unicamente sotto forma

Where postmodernism failed because it was inherently incoherent, the post-truth mindset may succeed because it is not. It faces the problem of truth head-on.

Abdu Murray • Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84 (Vintage International)

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Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

Despite its focus on uncertainty minimization, uncertainty itself has been shown to be intrinsically valuable, with agents being shown to seek uncertainty, find pleasure in its resolution, and to aim to occupy a band of uncertainty which lays at the edge of the agent ’ s ability to cope.