Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Identifying free will becomes a matter of perspective, not of physical proof.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
This is a standard worldwide shamanic motif. The heart is not in the body, so the magician can’t be killed. You have to find and destroy the heart.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
This exposes the temporal coupling by creating a bucket brigade. Each function produces a result that the next function needs, so there is no reasonable way to call them out of order. You might complain that this increases the complexity of the functions, and you’d be right. But that extra syntactic complexity exposes the true temporal complexity of the situation.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise