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CIA backed mystic

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(Flirting) you have two months to give me a reason to live

[s-n]

[s-n]

me and prozac

[dalals]

Byzantine mosaics found on the ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy.

[pmamtraveller]

Auguste Clesinger, 1849, “Woman Bitten by a Serpent”. Marble sculpture.

[therepublicofletters]

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[coriesu]

St. John Damascene and the Virgin of Tricherusa Giovanni Gasparro—2015

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Wilhelm Kuhnert (German, 1865–1926), "Tiger at the Waterhole" (details)

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Roberto Ferri

[angel-0f-filth]

[my-dailydreams]

[rubicunda]

Ether, 2006, Stephanie Valentin

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Will-O'-the-Wisp Elizabeth Adela Armstrong Forbes

[hildegardavon]

Kazimierz Alchimowicz, 1840-1916

Water Nymph, 1898, oil on canvas, 81x111 cm

Unidentified location

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

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[s-n]

For long i was a firm believer in the absolute primacy of reason. But I've come to realise that what actually sets humans apart is NOT reason.

What truly distinguishes humans is:

a) recursive language

Ability to encode abstract models, transmit concepts and build institutions.

b) symbolic cognition

We can treat representations (symbols) like real things.

c) hyper-social brain

Our intelligence evolved for cooperation, gossip, alliances, status, narrative and not just pure logic.

d) cumulative culture

Each generation builds on the last.

e) imagination and simulation

Massive prefrontal networks for scenario building.

f) complex intentionality

We can model what others think about what we think.

Reason is just one subroutine inside this enormous architecture.

Meaning, desire, purpose. All three originate in systems older and deeper than logic.

Reason is a servant, not a master.