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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
The feeling of free will is built on an absence. I think it comes from the absence of an ability to know the future.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
It is a great poison, to know you have a destiny and that everything you do is right by default.
The Expert System's Brother
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Many religions praise the value of humility but then imagine themselves to be the most important thing in the universe. They mix calls for personal meekness with blatant collective arrogance. Humans of all creeds would do well to take humility more seriously.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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