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This retrospective plausibility causes a discounting of the rarity and conceivability of the event. I later saw the exact same illusion of understanding in business success and the financial markets.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mind is perfect. There is no evil. Imperfection, or evil, is non-existent. Man’s concept of evil is a wrong concept. Evil is as impossible as unequilibrium is impossible.
The Universal One
Walter Russell
Again, some people might be offended by my comparison of the Bible to Harry Potter. If you are a scientifically minded Christian, you might explain away all the errors, myths, and contradictions in the Bible by arguing that the holy book was never meant to be read as a factual account, but rather as a metaphorical story containing deep wisdom. But isn’t that true of the Harry Potter stories too?
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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