Doug Wright

“Decisions, intentions, efforts, goals, willpower, etc., are causal states of the brain, leading to specific behaviors, and behaviors lead to outcomes in the world. Human choice, therefore, is as important as fanciers of free will believe. But the next choice you make will come out of the darkness of prior causes that you, the conscious witness of your experience, did not bring into being.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“More than 90 per cent of all money – more than $50 trillion appearing in our accounts – exists only on computer servers.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind