“The mind has to be built out of specialized parts because it has to solve specialized problems. Only an angel could be a general problem-solver; we mortals have to make fallible guesses from fragmentary information. Each of our mental modules solves its unsolvable problem by a leap of faith about how the world works, byContinue reading “Constraints: Abstractions Towards Culture”
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The Path of Least Resistance Quote
Structure determines behavior. The way anything is structured determines the behavior within that structure. The next time you are in a building, notice how the structure of the building determines your path through it. Although you may move to your destination in a variety of ways within the building, your actions are still determined byContinue reading “The Path of Least Resistance Quote”
Culture in Mind Quote
“The implications are, quite literally, mind-bending. At birth, the human brain weighs a mere 25 percent of its eventual adult weight. This is a curious state of affairs for the brainiest of the primates. A macaque, by contrast, is born with a brain that is 60 percent of its adult weight. Its neural growth hasContinue reading “Culture in Mind Quote”
A Quote and Some Notes
From the moment of its [re]creation in 1975, we have instinctively felt the Temple of Set to be something unprecedented on this world. It crystallized a premise at once more ambitious and more subtle than that of its Church of Satan prelude. And unlike the cynical pessimism of the Church, the Temple has always hadContinue reading “A Quote and Some Notes”
Saturday Quotes and Resources
“It is not what you do not know that is the problem, but what you think you know that is not so.” – Wyatt Woodsmall, PhD “I am often concerned to see how little knowledge many aspiring Initiates have of exoteric human history. Unless you have a reasonably solid grounding in this subject, anything youContinue reading “Saturday Quotes and Resources”
Tuesday Quote
“You never believed in the meaning of this world, and youtherefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalentand that good and evil could be defined according to one’swishes. You supposed that in the absence of any human ordivine code the only values were those of the animal world –in other words, violence and cunning. HenceContinue reading “Tuesday Quote”
A Passing By
From the moment of its [re]creation in 1975, we have instinctively felt the Temple of Set to be something unprecedented on this world. It crystallized a premise at once more ambitious and more subtle than that of its Church of Satan prelude. And unlike the cynical pessimism of the Church, the Temple has always hadContinue reading “A Passing By”
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