Habit, conditioning, evolved machinery, aphorism 328, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry

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Habit, conditioning, evolved machinery, if ignored, account for a large part of what humans call “depth.” That we consider this fact “depressing” signals another aspect of human perception: we do not really want truth so much as we want to escape from superficiality. We prisoners of the heart! At last we have the key in our hand — but do not know which side of the door is out and which is in.






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