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The best test of whether something is real or fictional is whether it can suffer
Drawn from what Yuval Noah Harari said
Mental modelThe map is not the territory
What Yuval Noah Harari actually said
- Yuval Noah Harari Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976
The simplest one, the best one that I can say in short, is the test of suffering. If it can suffer, it's real. If it can't suffer, it's not real. A nation cannot suffer.
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