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People also tend to make mistakes based on the “conjunction fallacy,” that is, they improperly determine that specific conditions are more probable than a single, more general one.
Thinking in New Boxes
Luc De Brabandere, Alan Iny
You know what you figure out in the middle of a trip? That all these assumptions and preconceived notions of who you are, they’re all bullshit. You’re just an organism who is trying to find normalcy by repeating patterns.” Unless, of course, you’re him, in which case patterns are made to be broken. He doesn’t say this about himself, though. But it is understood. A pattern-driven mind doesn’t often stumble onto a goat’s vagina. But his does.
How Joe Rogan Went From UFC Announcer to 21st-Century Timothy Leary
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For all the morbidity of existential psychotherapy, it is deeply life-affirming. Change is always possible. Intimacy can be freeing. Existence is precious. “I hate the idea of leaving this world, this wonderful life,” Yalom said, praising a metaphor devised by the scientist Richard Dawkins to illustrate the fleeting nature of existence. Imagine that the present moment is a spotlight moving its way across a ruler that shows the billions of years the universe has been around. Everything to the left of the area lit by the spotlight is over; to the right is the uncertain future. The chances of us being in the spotlight at this particular moment—of being alive—are minuscule. And yet here we are.
The Existentialist Prepares to Die
Jordan Michael Smith
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