by orchaeus | Nov 14, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-people-recurring-life-crises-decade.html∞ Actually, we are ignoring something obvious: humans »molt. »Internally. On a schedule that is at once unique, and related to personal history, circumstance and predilection. Those...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/language-vs-human-intelligence-13441c78a733″Language. Like everything that matters, we have a lot of provisional knowledge about it, but know nearly nothing of why we have it. It’s the stuff of science-fiction, or more —...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2017 | Shared Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity∞ THE ETHICS OF DEBATING or HOW TO NOT BE A CHARLATAN (revision of earlier discussion) You can attack what a person *said* or what the person *meant*. The former is more sensational. The mark of a charlatan is to...
by orchaeus | Nov 11, 2017 | Shared Link
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/10/decimated-germanys-birds-disappear-as.html?m=1
by orchaeus | Nov 11, 2017 | Shared Link
∞ We breed and confuse frameworks and reference frames, failing to discriminate or sustain them. Many of our ‘deepest questions’ are not questions, they are framework/reference frame errors. In these chapters on Light, Hermann Bondi gives us a glimpse of a...
by orchaeus | Nov 11, 2017 | Shared Link
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-theory-dopamine-role.html∞ “Dopamine cell firing can encode errors in reward prediction, providing a learning signal to guide future behavior. Yet dopamine is also a key modulator of motivation, invigorating current...
