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Learning to Believe in Ghosts

February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 ~ sly ~ Leave a comment

[Written when I should have been doing my taxes] In Sapiens, Yuval Harari argues that the ability to conceive of imagined realities has permitted humans to thrive as a species. Supposedly, we are the only creatures that can communicate in the abstract. We have devised belief systems, supranational organizations, proverbial lines that define one nation … Continue reading Learning to Believe in Ghosts

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