Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedNeal Stephenson: uncertainty
17 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality
“I don’t know. A lot of this kind of philosophizing can just have the effect of pulling you back, zooming out from the day-to-day particulars of your life, and thinking about things in a more detached, let’s say, maybe calmer frame of mind.”
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- Neal Stephenson
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- uncertainty
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- 17 Jul 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…And if you were somehow convinced that was true, or thought it very likely to be true, would it change anything in your behavior? I don’t know. A lot of this kind of philosophizing can just have the effect of pulling you back, zooming out from the day-to-day particulars of your life, and thinking about things in a more detached, let’s say, maybe calmer frame of mind. What’s your favorite poem by John Milton?…
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