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“To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.”

Want Looks Two Reality Eye Views Brain Accepting Illusion Servant Conspiracy Comforting Starks Credible Fulcrum Stark Reality

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.”

Ifs Persons Might Asks Brain Accepting Technology Design Computer Program Corners Digital Artificial Intelligence Developers Digital Technology

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.”

Men Sometimes Seems Sports Brain Accepting Ready Athlete Surgeons Brain Surgeons

Book:Women and Sports: 2

Source: Women and Sports: 2

“I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.”

Thinking Process Growth Brain Accepting Embrace Accepting Change Embrace Change

Author:Diane Keaton

“People always say, when did you realize you were funny? And I think it's not that you realize you were funny. It's that you're brain works in a certain way. And I don't think that that's - I think in some respects it's uncontrollable, and you can either accept it and deal with it and hone it or you can try to fight it. And I was too weak to fight it.”

People Thinking Way Trying Certain Fighting Realizing Deals Brain Accepting Weak Uncontrollable

Author:Jon Stewart

“We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the problems with the scientific worldview is that it leads human beings to have an overwhelmingly theoretical relationship to the world. For example, I no longer accept my being in the world practically and then try to describe that or elucidate that; rather, I see the world theoretically as colors and objects and representations which are fed through my retina into the brain.”

World Trying Humans Problem Human Beings Brain Accepting Example Objects Color Feds Bad Things Representation Theoretical Worldview

Author:Simon Critchley

“The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.”

People Humans Wells Hard Today Felt Levels Numbers Brain Accepting Century Comfortable Negative Roots Genuine Zero Squares Mathematician Abstraction Human Brain Minus Square Roots

Author:Keith Devlin

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.”

People Ifs World Soul Hands Light Asks Challenges Brain Accepting Window Prejudice Caught Your Soul Assumption Over You Bias Caught Up

Author:Alan Alda