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ON SEPTEMBER 11th 2001 Shane Parrish was just two weeks into his job at a Canadian intelligence agency, armed with a computer-science degree and thrust into new responsibilities. Forced to make ...

In a previous post, you heard how Rene Descartes and other Enlightenment philosophers split the mind and its mental operations from the body, leaving medicine with an almost exclusive focus on the ...

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