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Ch1 L50: Summary (Part III)

October 26, 2019 Leave a Comment

The basic cognitive step to make sense of the world around us is to connect things based on the law I called the law of adjacency: two spatial, temporal, or conceptual things are related to each other in mind [1]. As an example, we saw how the brain could relate the smell of a rose to its shape and create […]

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Ch1 L44: Beliefs – part XVIII (On rituals)

August 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

In the last post, we talked about learning which could be interpreted as making extraordinary things ordinary by creating concepts [1] or orders [2]. Earlier we had discussed that we related things based on the law of adjacency [3], two or more spatial, temporal or conceptual things are related to each other. Those relationships which have more similarities in more […]

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Ch1 L40: Beliefs – part XIV (The hallucinating solution)

July 14, 2019 2 Comments

Realizing our own mortality has been the greatest discovery of all time [1]. It has had such an irreversibly huge impact on our lives that many might have wished that they hadn’t had a bite from the fruit of knowledge. It also changed the way people had defined their lives. Imagine that each day they had to deal with many […]

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Ch1 L38: Beliefs – part XII (sacrifices V)

June 29, 2019 1 Comment

In the last post, we discussed who was chosen to be sacrificed and how the selection took place [1]. We should keep in mind what we discussed was just one of the many stories and there were different rituals with their own unique details and I just picked up the one which would help us study the transition from the […]

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Ch1 L36: Beliefs – part X (sacrifices III)

June 1, 2019 2 Comments

Through the last post, we saw how mankind canonized totems since they needed a focal point to direct their attention, sacrifices, and prayers [1]. We also studied in the post about the magic era [2] that based on the law of adjacency [3] and causality [4], they believed that two similar things can have similar effect or if you touched […]

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Ch1 L34: Beliefs – part VIII (sacrifices II)

May 18, 2019 3 Comments

To resume the discussion about human sacrifice, we saw that it’s a rational decision by nature [1]. Thinking tells us to sacrifice short-term gains for long-term benefits [2]. So, our primitive ancestors killed one because they believed [3] that it would save many. We embarked on the journey to know how we’ve evolved to fight Death [4]. Then Homosapiens created […]

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Ch1 L30: Beliefs – part VI (Magics)

April 13, 2019 8 Comments

The concept of causality [1] has enabled us to react to causes instead of effects and the belief [2] in it has directed us to look for the causes of phenomena. In fact, we can analyze the history of Sapiens based on the type of causes they’ve assigned to the things around. Sir James Frazer [3], in “The golden bough” […]

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Ch1 L29: Beliefs – part V (cause vs. reason)

April 7, 2019 6 Comments

In the 8th post, we studied how the brain could create supersigns [1] connecting two or more signs based on the law I called the law of adjacency [2]: If two or more things are spatially, temporally or conceptually [3] adjacent, they will be connected in our mind. We also saw that the brain connected the sign of a flower […]

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Ch1 L8: Supersign, Part 1: Why ending matters

February 21, 2018 14 Comments

In the last post, while moving towards the thing [1], you smelled something which our body could evaluate it either good or bad [2]. As you get closer to the thing, the smell becomes stronger. Here, the first cognitive analysis takes place: your brain connects the sign of the thing with the sign of the smell [3] and creates a […]

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Stationary Traveller by Camel

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My target readers are exactly those whom Einstein and Infeld have described in the preface of “the evolution of physics”: “Whilst writing the book we had long discussions as to the characteristics of our idealized reader and worried a good deal about him. We had him making up for a complete lack of any concrete knowledge of physics and mathematics by quite a great number of virtues. We found him interested in physical and philosophical ideas and we were forced to admire the patience with which he struggled through the less interesting and more difficult passages. He realized that in order to understand any page he must have read the preceding ones carefully. He knew that a scientific book, even though popular, must not be read in the same way as a novel.”

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