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Our minds hold stale code.

Our stale code causes us suffering.

We can free ourselves from suffering by being aware of and changing our stale code.

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"Human evolution started about 4 to 7 million years ago and today's 'modern' human brain appeared on the scene some 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. For most of that time our ancestors lived in primitive hunter-gatherer societies."

— Peter Bevelin, Seeking Wisdom

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"This means that humans have spent more than 99% of their evolutionary history in the hunter gatherer environment. If we compress 4 million years into 24 hours...the history of humans began at midnight."

— Peter Bevelin, Seeking Wisdom

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"We are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more."

— Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

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"Evolution has made any behavior that helps us survive and reproduce feel pleasurable or rewarding. Behavior that is bad for us [to survive and reproduce] feels painful or punishing."

— Peter Bevelin, Seeking Wisdom

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"This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped thousands of generations ago continues to be felt subjectively even if it is no longer necessary for survival and reproduction in the present."

— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

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"Something that is truly free would need to be able to question its fundamental drives—to change them."

— Robert Ford in the TV Show "Westworld"

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