Scott Young
Brain Training Doesn't Work
7 min · · Debunking an alluring (but ultimately harmful) myth about how to get smarter. · Shared by 910, including Rick Powell, Essaadi, Andy Sporring - 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Essays, Andrei Luca
Literary Hub
Why Smarter People Might Be More Prone to Irrational Biases
7 min · · Are some people less susceptible to bias? How about those who are typically considered smart? We might like to think that people who are more intelligent can discern what is right or wrong and appl… · Shared by 533, including Rick Powell
The New Yorker
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?
7 min · · Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. · Shared by 259, including Felix M, Shelley Bonanno, MA, LLP (she/her/hers), David Nagel, Gregg Caruso, Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, Bailey Richardson, Marie-José Kolly
freddiedeboer.substack.com
We Can't Constructively Address Online Mental Health Culture Without Acknowledging That Some People Think They Have Disorders They Don't
5 min · · they're hurting, just in different ways · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
Big Think
Ask Ethan: How do fundamental particles create consciousness?
12+ min · · At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness? · Shared by 623, including Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell
Big Think
Will we ever define the conscious mind?
6 min · · Consciousness is something so mysterious that we still find it notoriously difficult to understand or even define. · Shared by 1393, including Rick Powell, John Hagel
Quillette
Against Authenticity
6 min · · To be human is to be artificial. · Shared by 593, including Beate Jordaan, Gabriele, Rick Powell
Neuroscience News
A New Theory in Physics Claims to Solve the Mystery of Consciousness
6 min · · Consciousness can not simply be reduced to neural activity alone, researchers say. A novel study reports the dynamics of consciousness may be understood by a newly developed conceptual and… · Shared by 610, including Rick Powell, Matt Shaffer
Collab Fund
Rare Skills
3 min · · Three rare and powerful skills: 1. Understanding how people justify their beliefs in a way that makes you respect their delusions. A rare and useful skill is understanding that people you find to be… · Shared by 5007, including Ines Bieler, Touche Theories, Morgan Housel, Rick Powell
Big Think
Why Nietzsche envied (and pitied) the stupidity of animals
8 min · · How can we be so sure that human intelligence is a good thing, when we’re not sure if intelligence even exists as a quantifiable concept. · Shared by 501, including Howard Getson, Rick Powell
The New York Times
Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless
5 min · · The book “If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal,” by Justin Gregg, contrasts human thought with animal intelligence. The people come up short. · Shared by 150, including Rick Powell, Chris Bertram, Tactical Tech
Aeon+Psyche
The different lives of fringe and strange scientific ideas
11+ min · · Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work? · Shared by 315, including Massimo Pigliucci, Lee Keyes, Rick Powell, Gabriele, Tactical Tech, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Michael Shermer, Jason Silva
Aeon+Psyche
What we’re doing when we’re doing epistemology
14+ min · · Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing? · Shared by 267, including Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Cecily Whiteley, Massimo Pigliucci
Aeon+Psyche
How memories persist where bodies, and even brains, do not
11+ min · · How can animals whose brains have been drastically remodelled still recall their kin, their traumas and their skills? · Shared by 53, including Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, Jason Silva, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
Scott Alexander
Book Review: The Scout Mindset
19+ min · · Shared by 19, including Econlib, Steven Pinker, Julia Galef
Psychology Today
The Downside of Solitude
3 min · · Losing connections with your social world. · Shared by 233, including Lee Keyes, Thomas Power, Rick Powell, Lynda