Kind of wish there were a box of influential books distributed to every 12-year old. Like the Finnish baby box, but for cognition.
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Replying to @starsandrobots
I would put in copies of Gödel, Escher, Bach and (with recency bias) perhaps Triumphs of Experience. Which other books are worthy?
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@starsandrobots Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Journal of John Woolman.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@starsandrobots in fact you may need, not a box, but a five foot shelf :) http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf) …2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
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