How Our Beliefs are Shaped
The problem I see here is when people use this “comforting feeling” as a proof for their belief. I don’t think there is a convincing argument here. Just wanting and desiring something to be true does not make it so.
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Planned books:
- How to Cheat at Everything: A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, by Simon Lovell
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life In by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- You Are What You Choose: The Habits of Mind that Really Determine How We Make Decisions by Scott de Marchi, James T. Hamilton
- Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger (MacSci) by Jeff Wise
Current books:
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
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The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) by Ayn Rand
Recent books:
- Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
- Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chodron
- Tai-Pan by James Clavell
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