We have an illusion of free will because our behaviour is evolved to be inherently unpredictable since a predictable behaviour gets exploited by competitors in evolution. If someone can outguess you, they can dominate you. Evolution’s solution: become hard to predict.

इस एपिसोड में चर्चा प्रसिद्ध पत्रकार, लेखक, और विचारक चंद्रभान प्रसाद @cbhanp से. इस पुलियाबाज़ी में उन्होंने अपनी नई किताब 'What is Ambedkarism?' और दलित पूंजीवाद के महत्व पर विस्तार से बातें की. सुनियेगा ज़रूर। बहुत सारे विचार है इस एक एपिसोड में। ivmpodcasts.com/puliyabaazi-ep…

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I want to stop to repeat this because this is quite extraordinary. It shows evolution at work. Dogs have anatomical changes to their faces (a small facial muscle) that let's them make expressions that appeal to us. They're so cute!

अगला #By२ एपिसोड आ चुका है। इस बार सौरभ और प्रणय चर्चा कर रहें हैं तीन मुख़्तलिफ़ मुद्दों पर - १। निजीकरण की गति कैसे बढ़ाई जाए? २। मंगल गृह की तस्वीरें। और ३। कम्पनियों पर सरकार का बोझ डालने का परिणाम। ivmpodcasts.com/puliyabaazi-ep…

The main job of your prefrontal cortex is to justify the decisions that your subcortex and Limbic system has taken, while maintaining the facade of free will.

Kunal Shah The “world simulation” theory of consciousness suggests that right now all that you’re seeing is happening within the confines of your skull. Crazy to think that even when we look at the stars millions of light years away, we are really looking at the back of our skull.

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ONE student is getting really bizarre outlier data though. what's going on? they observe HER observing THE FISH and realize that the fish actually ARE behaving differently when she's taking the readings.

Twitter's animation for when you are the first to hit "like" on a tweet is different from when you aren't the first guy. Tiny beautiful pieces of user experience.

Why is nihilistic worldview assumed to be a bad thing?

Milan Kudera has died. He was known for "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." This is what he had to say about questions and answers. Deep.

Floats like a butterfly, sings like a Rafi. Two immortal Mohammeds. I love that this picture exists.

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Even the air in the country’s capital doesn’t move the discourse from caste and religion. We should be worrying about climate, broken cities, missing education, FLFP. Perhaps too many vested interests pushing caste/religion agenda while real issues have dispersed victims.

Brain plasticity is your biggest asset. Use it carefully.

Whatever happens in the global anglophone techno-capitalist world is downstream from the social dynamics amongst four active player archetypes. Active player archetype 1 - The genius. The one who invents, grokking five different disciplines at a world expert level. This person

a tiktok-like wikipedia app that learns from you (wip). kickstart your feed by listing your interests, or simply entering your twitter username. from there, the algorithms learns from your swiping behavior!