I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic__n fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn__ draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn__ do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system__earning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention__ay radically transform one__ life.
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Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic__n fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn__ draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn__ do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system__earning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention__ay radically transform one__ life.
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