Scott Young
Brain Training Doesn't Work
7 min read · · Debunking an alluring (but ultimately harmful) myth about how to get smarter. · Shared by 806, including Rick Powell, Andrei Luca
Literary Hub
Why Smarter People Might Be More Prone to Irrational Biases
7 min read · · 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 398, including Rick Powell
The New Yorker
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?
7 min read · · Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. · Shared by 99, 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 read · · 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 read · · At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness? · Shared by 559, including Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell
Big Think
Will we ever define the conscious mind?
6 min read · · Consciousness is something so mysterious that we still find it notoriously difficult to understand or even define. · Shared by 1261, including Rick Powell, John Hagel
Quillette
Against Authenticity
6 min read · · To be human is to be artificial. · Shared by 458, including Beate Jordaan, Gabriele, Rick Powell
Neuroscience News
A New Theory in Physics Claims to Solve the Mystery of Consciousness
6 min read · · 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 243, including Rick Powell, Matt Shaffer
Collab Fund
Rare Skills
3 min read · · 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 2297, including Rick Powell, Ines Bieler, Morgan Housel
Big Think
Why Nietzsche envied (and pitied) the stupidity of animals
8 min read · · 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 371, including Howard Getson, Rick Powell
The New York Times
Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless
5 min read · · The book “If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal,” by Justin Gregg, contrasts human thought with animal intelligence. The people come up short. · Shared by 85, including Rick Powell, Chris Bertram, Tactical Tech
Aeon+Psyche
The different lives of fringe and strange scientific ideas
~11 min read · · 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 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 · · Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing? · 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 · · 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 read · · Shared by 18, including Econlib, Steven Pinker, Julia Galef
Psychology Today
The Downside of Solitude
3 min read · · Losing connections with your social world. · Shared by 236, including Lee Keyes, Thomas Power, Rick Powell, Lynda
