Sublime

What’s interesting about blockchain instead is that it enables “frictionless binding contracts,” to use the language of economics.

high-entropy macrostates have more equivalent microstates,

There’s really only two possibilities, for a belief of fact—either the belief got there via a mind-reality entangling process, or not. If not, the belief can’t be correct except by coincidence. For beliefs with the slightest shred of internal complexity (requiring a computer program of more than 10 bits to simulate), the space of possibilities is l

I Am/I Am Not

Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified.

William James escreveu que “o ideal de qualquer ciência é um sistema da verdade fechado e completo”.26 Segundo ele, os estudiosos atingem esse objetivo em grande medida desconsiderando o que James chama de “resíduo não classificado” — os sintomas e experiências que não “se encaixam com precisão nessa forma ideal”.

People feel (or presume) an authorship of their thoughts and actions that is illusory.

From a scientific method viewpoint, it’s not possible to prove a negative.

The more we understand the human mind in causal terms, the harder it becomes to draw a distinction between cases like 4 and 5.