I wanted to tell her I understood, but part of understanding was knowing that telling her that would only make her nervous.
Meredith Russo: If I Was Your Girl
Mindestabverstand.
Redenken.
And then whenever I stop and think — why did I want to do something? — how did I work out how to do it? — I get a very strong desire just to stop thinking about it. Like I have now. It’s a big effort to talk about it.
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Not only in the morning.
But that’s not me. By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.
I am the one who wakes up in the morning.
Always.
Every morning.
I don’t die.
I just become increasingly unlikely.
Geweltheit.
I had ceased to be curious about other people’s lives, much less other worlds.
Knowing Why Knowing.
The major difference is in the world, not the arguments. In a time where actual conspiracies are commonplace, conspiracy theories acquire a ring of plausibility.
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We have always had disagreements about what’s true, but today, we have a disagreement over how we know whether something is true. This is an epistemological crisis, not a crisis over belief.