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Agency Quote by Paul Bloom

“Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we…” quote by Paul Bloom — Download Open image

“Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.”

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