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

Minds Almost Meeting

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Abstraction Is Inappropriate When Applied to the Human Being

Abstraction is less appropriate for important things up close, where you can attend to the details. So that's just the same sense of abstractly. It's just that it's inappropriate when applied to the human being, but appropriate. Well, it's appropriate for quick and dirty reasoning which is appropriate for the many things far away you can't be bothered to think very much about. And so one thing we should always appreciate about it is the things that are good about sacred thinking. Right?

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