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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.


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The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.



It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.



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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.



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You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.



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Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.



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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.





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