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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as remembering. —WILLIAM JAMES

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules”.

Greg Taylor • Stop Worrying! There Probably Is an Afterlife

If Perception and Action were the disciplines of the mind and the body, then Will is the discipline of the heart and the soul.

Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

As psychologist and philosopher William James explained: “Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

You wake up to a stream of consciousness, which is your perception of the world and its content, with you at the subjective center of the experience. Throughout the day this stream is the reason for everything you do. You get water because you’re thirsty, take turns while driving because you have a destination in mind, talk because you’re feeling g... See more

Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why

the mind stuff

psychology

Solarev • 5 cards

Mind has the characteristics of a process more than of a thing;