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“Once beliefs are formed, the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which adds an emotional boost of further confidence in the beliefs and thereby accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive feedback loop of belief confirmation.”
― The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
― The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
“A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth”
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“Cooperation evolves only if individuals who are prone to cooperation outcompete individuals who are not (or who are less so). Thus, if morality is a set of adaptations for cooperation, we today are moral beings only because our morally minded ancestors outcompeted their less morally minded neighbors. And thus, insofar as morality is a biological adaptation, it evolved not only as a device for putting Us ahead of Me, but as a device for putting Us ahead of Them. (And”
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
“I made my own house be my gallows.”
― Dante's Inferno
― Dante's Inferno
“Finally, on June 29, 2007, boredom was pronounced dead, thanks to the iPhone. And so our imaginations and deep social connections went with it.”
― The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
― The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
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