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‘Whenever we act’, continues Jacquette, ‘we intend to do something, and our intending intends, is directed toward or about a state of affairs that does not yet exist’ – hence actions are ‘future-directed, and in some cases fiction-directed’, since it may so happen that the state the agent aims at never comes to exist (e.g. utopia).
The Progress of This Storm
Andreas Malm
We desire to reform, to rearrange the effects without radically altering the cause. As the end is in the means, so the effect is in the cause.
Tweets From Krishnamurti
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The new biology improves upon the standard Darwinian view of spontaneous mutations and random selection as the motors of species adaptations; it demonstrates that __circumstances themselves can shape how genes adjust to the environment. Said another way, our lives are what happens when life acts upon life.__
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté, MD
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