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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Thus, one uses his pulse to be sure that a pendulum is regular and then uses the pendulum to be sure that the pulse is regular. Isn’t this a vicious circle? What does it mean? It means that we never measure time itself. We always measure physical variables A, B, C... (oscillations, beats, and many other things), and we always compare one variable with another one.
What Is Time? What Is Space?
Carlo Rovelli
In other words, consciousness itself is an illusion that our brain generates to give us a sense of oversight, which feels very much like top-down control.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
Perhaps 65 million years from now, intelligent rats will look back gratefully on the decimation wrought by humankind, just as we today can thank that dinosaur-busting asteroid.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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