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Brain Training Doesn't Work

7 min · 2022-09-14 · 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
brain
learning
cognitive science
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we must let go of the false promise that broad-ranging skills can come from practice on narrow tasks. Brain training is a dead-end, but learning is timeless.
Literary Hub

Why Smarter People Might Be More Prone to Irrational Biases

7 min · 2022-09-15 · 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
books
brain
cognitive bias
The New Yorker

Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?

7 min · 2022-10-03 · 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
psychology
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William Wordsworth wrote that “the Child is Father of the Man,”
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 · 2022-09-27 · 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 · 2022-09-09 · 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
science
brain
consciousness
Big Think

Will we ever define the conscious mind?

6 min · 2022-08-30 · 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
brain
neuroscience
Quillette

Against Authenticity

6 min · 2022-09-08 · To be human is to be artificial. · Shared by 593, including Beate Jordaan, Gabriele, Rick Powell
philosophy
psychology
relationships
society
better living
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We are profoundly social animals with brains designed to absorb and assimilate our surrounding culture, beginning most dramatically with language.
Neuroscience News

A New Theory in Physics Claims to Solve the Mystery of Consciousness

6 min · 2022-08-11 · 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
science
Collab Fund

Rare Skills

3 min · 2022-09-09 · 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
better living
psychology
career
skills
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Treating words like they cost you something is the right mindset.
Big Think

Why Nietzsche envied (and pitied) the stupidity of animals

8 min · 2022-08-10 · 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
nature
philosophy
The New York Times

Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless

5 min · 2022-08-10 · 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
books
Aeon+Psyche

The different lives of fringe and strange scientific ideas

11+ min · 2022-02-10 · 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
science
psychology
history
knowledge
conspiracy theories
Aeon+Psyche

What we’re doing when we’re doing epistemology

14+ min · 2021-11-02 · 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
philosophy
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Epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge, belief and evidence, starts here, with our fallibility.
Aeon+Psyche

How memories persist where bodies, and even brains, do not

11+ min · From 2021 · 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 · From 2021 · Shared by 19, including Econlib, Steven Pinker, Julia Galef
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Reading between the lines, I think she learned pretty much the same thing a lot of the rest of us learned during the grim years of the last decade. Of the fifty-odd biases discovered by Kahneman, Tversky, and their successors, forty-nine are cute quirks, and one is destroying civilization.
Psychology Today

The Downside of Solitude

3 min · From 2021 · Losing connections with your social world. · Shared by 233, including Lee Keyes, Thomas Power, Rick Powell, Lynda
psychology
mental health
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Loneliness is the painful experience of being isolated from others, whereas solitude is the pleasant experience of being by yourself.
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