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If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.

06/14/2023

…readers of fiction are emotionally immersed in a way that readers of philosophy usually aren’t (as cognitive research confirms), so readers take the scenarios more seriously.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

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06/13/2023

…where free will is absent, the mind is reduced to a mere byproduct of deterministic material reality. Consciousness, including the psychological sensation of intentionality and self-awareness in general, becomes a kind of meaningless sideshow compulsively played by our irrelevant “minds”, as we are forced to call them, to interpret that which they cannot affect.

— Christopher Michael Langan, The Art of Knowing

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06/10/2023

Thus, our architects need to shift their thinking away from creating the perfect end product, and instead focus on helping create a framework in which the right systems can emerge, and continue to grow as we learn more.

— Sam Newman, Building Microservices

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