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Your Brain Has a Press Secretary, and It Never Tells You the Real Reason
Practical consequences of Simler and Hanson's The Elephant in the Brain, from reading a room's body language to working out what a credential is…
Sep 30
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Michal Kalinowski
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Huxley's The Doors of Perception: a study guide to the reducing valve
A companion for anyone reading Huxley's 1954 mescaline essay, or about to. The briefing I wish I had, structured notes, connections to six other books…
Sep 17
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Michal Kalinowski
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The Rebuttal That Doesn't Quite Land
Alister McGrath is the critic Richard Dawkins was least prepared to answer. He read the same evidence, reached a different conclusion, and wrote a…
Aug 25
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Michal Kalinowski
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Reading Dawkins After You've Already Left
The God Delusion gets natural selection and moral progress right, but argues against a caricature of serious theology. A read from someone who left…
Aug 11
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Michal Kalinowski
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The Most Dangerous People Are Not the Angry Ones
Will Storr's The Status Game argues righteousness, not anger, is the most dangerous social force, because moral status games have no natural stopping…
Jul 12
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Michal Kalinowski
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Your Moral Convictions Are Not What You Think They Are
Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: why moral reasoning works like a press secretary rather than a judge, and what six moral foundations explain about…
Jun 27
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Michal Kalinowski
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You Didn't Answer That Question
Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow: you don't get the wrong answer to a hard question, you get the right answer to an easier one you swapped in…
Jun 11
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Michal Kalinowski
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Everyone Has an Agenda. Including You. Especially You.
Simler and Hanson's The Elephant in the Brain: why self-deception isn't a bug in human reasoning, it's the feature that makes the social game playable…
May 28
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Michal Kalinowski
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There's No Such Thing as a Violent Person
Sapolsky's Behave takes apart the idea of a fixed personality. Behaviour is the output of a layered stack of causes, biology, situation, history…
May 15
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Michal Kalinowski
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Your Brain Is Lying to You — And It's Doing You a Favour
Huxley's Doors of Perception isn't a book about drugs. It's a book about how little of reality you're actually seeing, and why that might be exactly…
Apr 17
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Michal Kalinowski
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You Are Not Who You Think You Are
Sapolsky, Kahneman, Simler and Hanson, Huxley and Peterson converge on one finding: the reasons you give for your behaviour are written after the…
Apr 16
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Michal Kalinowski
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