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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
With equanimity, situations have only characteristics, not demands.
Buddha's Brain
Rick Hanson
It’s an absence of certainty. It’s the donut hole of “now.” That puts it at a different logical level from the physical laws of cause and effect. That’s why determinism and free will are acompatible.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
It did not dawn on them that it was ludicrous to forecast a second time given that their forecast was off so early and so markedly, that this business of forecasting had to be somehow questioned. And they were looking twenty-five years ahead! Nor did it hit them that there was something called an error rate to take into account.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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