Whatever is conscious is creative. Whatever is unconscious is uncreative. Highway hypnosis is phenomenon when you drove a car on a familiar route and completely blanked on the experience. You could be doing something immersive like listening to the audiobook. In order to experience highway hypnosis first you need to solve the problems of learning how to drive and driving the route many times. “Once we have conjectured the knowledge then tested it in the world and it solves our problem then this knowledge can run like an algorithm it seems directing our behavior while that which we really are - the conscious creative entity that is a person is able to move on to learning other things. This happens when we are on so-called autopilot.”
A person is an entity that can create explanatory knowledge. And is universal in its capacity to do so. What universal here means is: there is no problem in principle which a person is incapable of tackling. And the reason for this is that the mind - the software running on the hardware that is the brain - is a universal computer. It is “Turing Complete”. So whatever a universal Turing Machine can do a human mind can do as well, given enough time
Big part of thinking well is paying attention to your expectations (tracking when your believes falsify). That’s why the practice of being attentive when you are surprise feels so productive.
Inaccessible stranger vs. known approachable person. When people know more about others, they think others know more about them. When participants learned about a stranger, they felt as if the stranger also knew them better, and they acted as if the stranger was more attuned to their actions. As a result participants were more honest around known strangers. Our sense of depends not only on what people know about us but also on what we know about them.
1% of the richest owns weird businesses like auto dealerships. 75% earns a lot of money by owning a business and only 25% by earning wages. If you earn 75k a year only doubling the earnings will move you higher on the list.
Happiness: nature, body of water, sex, marriage/partnership, NYC the least happy, High: Flagstaff, Hawaii
Ought statement can never be derived from is statement.
When you write you complete your ideas. If you don’t write at all you don’t even realize you have incomplete ideas. You have an illusion that all of your ideas are complete. Tags:
People with different political parties identities are three times less likely to follow each other on Twitter. Based on study with bots with the identical content but different political affiliations.
Believing truths and avoiding falsehoods are incompatible processes. First is believing things even though you never can be certain. Second is suspending judgment. Callard believes the Socratic method is the best way out of this. Do it like in the court room, where prosecution and defense role is to make the best effort to present cases for innocence and guilty.
It’s interesting that styles of for example ceramics changes every like hundred years (flowing trends just alike today) – Michał archeolog doing ground work on Mayan civilzation in Guatemala
Madison studied failed democracies of the past to create a more resilient model of US democracy. Today, USA is ultra polarized and social media feeds us information that we already agree with. Madison worked on amending cooling and anti-mob mechanisms into the constitution. However they were dismantled over time enabling current state of democracy.