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\u201cSo, we have facts, but people decide which facts they wanna listen to…<\/span><\/p> <\/div>\n

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which facts they wanna take and change their opinions, and which they want to disregard. And one of the reasons for this is, when something doesn’t conform to what I already believe, what people tend to do is either disregard it or rationalize it away, because information doesn’t take into account what makes us human, which is our emotions, our desires, our motives, and our prior beliefs.”
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 the subject of the self is riddled with paradoxes. Because the mind has been categorized as something \u201cnonphysical,\u201d its definition alone places the self outside of physical cause-and-effect, and beyond the scope of science. However, as with many philosophical quandaries that involve the proposal of a thesis and the emergence of a counter-thesis (or antithesis, in the words of Hegel), a synthesis often emerges, reconciling seemingly disparate views into a more coherent and sensible perspective.”<\/p>

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