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The Sacred (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Problem With the Sacred or the Problem That It Blocks Our Ability to Deliberate

The sacred is important yet treated abstractly. We think about them in a far mode, even though they're especially important to us. The key thing to notice here is we look at things up close that are important to us in near mode and things far away from us that are less important in far mode. Robin's going to give one more part of his theory and then we can ask him more questions. All right. Well, why don't you go on to the system? Well, can we sum up the problem with the sacred or the problem that the sacred generates as it somehow blocks our ability to deliberate,. especially quantitatively or calculatively, about something?"

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