Big Think
Why Nietzsche envied (and pitied) the stupidity of animals
8 min read · Aug 10th · 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.
Reader View · Shared by 153, including Rick Powell
The New York Times
Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless
5 min read · Aug 10th · The book “If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal,” by Justin Gregg, contrasts human thought with animal intelligence. The people come up short.
Reader View · Shared by 80, including Tactical Tech, Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
The different lives of fringe and strange scientific ideas
~11 min read · Feb 10th · Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work?
Reader View · Shared by 307, including Tactical Tech, Rick Powell, Massimo Pigliucci, Lee Keyes, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Michael Shermer, Jason Silva
Aeon+Psyche
What we’re doing when we’re doing epistemology
~14 min read · 2021-11-02 · Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing?
Reader View · Shared by 270, including Rick Powell, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Cecily Whiteley, Massimo Pigliucci
Aeon+Psyche
How memories persist where bodies, and even brains, do not
~11 min read · 2021-09-30 · How can animals whose brains have been drastically remodelled still recall their kin, their traumas and their skills?
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, Jason Silva, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦
Scott Alexander
Book Review: The Scout Mindset
~19 min read · 2021-09-29
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Econlib, Steven Pinker, Julia Galef
Psychology Today
The Downside of Solitude
3 min read · 2021-08-15 · Losing connections with your social world.
Reader View · Shared by 237, including Lee Keyes, Thomas Power, Rick Powell, Lynda
Aeon+Psyche
Why there’s no such thing as the mind and nothing is mental
~12 min read · 2021-08-30 · The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them
Reader View · Shared by 248, including Massimo Pigliucci, Anita Leirfall, Abeba Birhane, Uyên Đỗ, Howard Getson, Rick Powell, Nir Eyal, Alejandro Dominguez, Sonja Peteranderl, Jason Silva, Marylin Delgado, Matthias Lampe, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦
Nat Eliason
I'm a Stupid Monkey and You are Too
4 min read · 2021-08-20 · Instead of relying on Willpower, or even Habits, I use the Stupid Monkey model: how do you get a stupid monkey to not do something it really wants to do?
Reader View · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Neurodiversity is not enough. We should embrace psydiversity
~14 min read · 2021-07-29 · We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity
Reader View · Shared by 159, including Miguel Angel Escotet, Carly, Rick Powell, Vaughan Bell, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
Scientific American
Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning
2 min read · 2021-07-07 · New research shows that lightning-quick neural rehearsal can supercharge learning and memory.
Reader View · Shared by 377, including Thomas Power, Gabriele, Chris Isak , Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Rick Powell, Guy Kawasaki, Leonardo Sumulong, Mike Taylor, venkat - bala, Prof Patrick McGhee
TED Talks
How to support a friend or family member who’s struggling with their mental health
7 min read · 2021-05-30 · Every person’s experience is different, so what’s the best way for you to show up for them? Mental health advocate Sahaj Kaur Kohli provides you with 8 dos and 8 don’ts.
Reader View · Shared by 209, including ClearAction / Lynn Hunsaker, CCXP, Rick Powell, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦
Aeon+Psyche
The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities
~13 min read · 2021-05-18 · You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity
Reader View · Shared by 476, including justin caouette, Bas Grasmayer, Esther Schindler, Carly, Marylin Delgado, Anita Leirfall, Tom Connor, Vaughan Bell, Andrzej Jóźwik, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rick Powell, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jason Silva, kp 🇺🇦, John Hagel, Abeba Birhane
The New York Times
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.
~11 min read · 2021-05-09 · Psilocybin and MDMA are poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac. Universities want in, and so does Wall Street. Some worry a push to loosen access could bring unintended consequences.
Reader View · Shared by 210, including Shelley Bonanno, MA, LLP (she/her/hers), Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Daniel Kraft, MD, Sai Kan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, MAPS, Vaughan Bell, Bjorn Larsen, Rick Powell, Forbes India, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, Scott Galloway, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
The Guardian
Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory
9 min read · 2021-04-14 · After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why
Reader View · Shared by 478, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Steve Faulkner, Gabriele, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, David Owen, Jason Silva, Rick Powell, Cameron Yick, teresa bücker, Jennifer Daniel, Guy Kawasaki, Tim McDonnell, Lynn Cherny
youtube.com
(4) Less is more: Why our brains struggle to subtract
2021-04-14 · When solving problems, humans tend to think about adding something before they think of taking something away - even when subtracting is the better solution....
Shared by 7, including Bob Sutton, Rick Powell
