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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.
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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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"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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