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Air Head: How Aviation Made the Modern Mind

• Terr_ 11y ago
  > The day’s lecture was short, with slides; the speaker, a neuropsychologist named Chris Frith, argued that a crucial feature of consciousness was regret. This reminds me of a quote from Dune, where Count Hasimir Fenring is talking with Baron Harkonnen: > "Mankind has ah only one mm-m-m science," the Count said [...] > "And what science is that?" the Baron asked. > "It's the um-m-m-ah-h science of ah-h-h discontent," the Count said.