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last updated Jul 15, 2023 07:40PM
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Not a good book. But has a few good ideas in it that are worth discovering in some way. Goes on way too long.
Pro:
The book has a few interesting chapters about self-control and if it exists or not. And if it exists can we use it to gain control over our reproductive wants and bad memes? A very interesting question that we really don't know that much about. Tomasello has some great papers on it but they explain how it works not how much it is responsible for. Can the self-control module really con ...more
Pro:
The book has a few interesting chapters about self-control and if it exists or not. And if it exists can we use it to gain control over our reproductive wants and bad memes? A very interesting question that we really don't know that much about. Tomasello has some great papers on it but they explain how it works not how much it is responsible for. Can the self-control module really con ...more


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