Pinboard: bookmarks for mwfogleman tagged 'mind'

That doesn’t mean we must approve of every possible extension of the mind, and even good extensions will have some drawbacks. Socrates worried that writing would make people forgetful and unwise. Sure enough, writing did rob us of some gifts, such as the ability to recite epic poems like The Iliad from memory. But it also created a much larger pool of knowledge from which people could draw, a pool that has continued to expand (or, dare we say, continued to extend?).
If we’ve learned anything since Clark and Chalmers published “The Extended Mind,” it’s not to underestimate the mind’s ability to adapt to the changing world.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Overcoming Bias: No Universally Compelling Arguments
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february 2009 by mwfogleman

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Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com

Wired.com: The subtitle of your book predicts a "coming dark age." Do you really believe this?
Jackson: Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering.

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february 2009 by mwfogleman

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Overcoming Bias: Politics is the Mind-Killer

If you want to make a point about science, or rationality, then my advice is to not choose a domain from contemporary politics if you can possibly avoid it.

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january 2009 by mwfogleman

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Do it for a Month » Blog Archive » Absolute beginner’s guide to having a lucid dream
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december 2008 by mwfogleman

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LUCID DREAMING
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december 2008 by mwfogleman

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Depression: How You Label Determines How You Feel

In their fascinating study “Would you be happier if you were richer?”, published in Science, Princeton professors Alan Krueger and Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for his work in behavioral economics, found that perhaps the best indicator of happiness was frequency of eating with friends and family.

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december 2008 by mwfogleman

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I’m Sorry, I Don’t Know, I Can’t … | ThinkSimpleNow.com
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july 2008 by mwfogleman

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I Am Not My Body : NPR
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may 2008 by mwfogleman

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The Person I'm Supposed to Be : NPR
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may 2008 by mwfogleman

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I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really. - New York Times
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may 2008 by mwfogleman

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Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education
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may 2008 by mwfogleman

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Caring for Your Introvert
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april 2008 by mwfogleman

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The Highly Sensitive Person
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april 2008 by mwfogleman

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Mental Heuristics Page
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april 2008 by mwfogleman

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TED | Talks | Tod Machover, Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head (video)
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april 2008 by mwfogleman

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An Introduction to Critical Thinking
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april 2008 by mwfogleman

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TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding --

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march 2008 by mwfogleman

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Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang
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february 2008 by mwfogleman

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Mind Over Matter - The Atlantic
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february 2008 by mwfogleman

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Relax Like A Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

I have — as do most males in my family — what is called “onset insomnia.” I don’t have trouble staying asleep, but I have a difficult time falling asleep, sometime laying awake in bed for 1-2 hours. There are two approaches that I’ve used with good effect without medications to address this: 1) Determine and set a top priorities to-do list that afternoon for the following day to avoid late-night planning, 2) Do not read non-fiction prior to bed, which encourages projection into the future and preoccupation/planning. Read fiction that engages the imagination and demands present-state attention. Recommendations for compulsive non-fiction readers include Motherless Brooklyn and Stranger in a Strange Land.