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[–] 25 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Your brain is there to keep you alive

It isn't there to make you happy

Life isn't fair, it never was, and it never will be

Just make the most of things, because it's all we have

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    “Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”

    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Your brain is there to keep you alive

    No matter the technology we develop, will we ever escape the mindset of being prey?

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