Ways of knowing
A crash course in thinking better & metacognition
Ways of knowing
Difference between Imaginary and Imaginal
Imaginary is something that takes you away from reality like you imagining a pink elephant.
Imaginal is something that relates to reality, kinda like what children do with dolls. They have real toys but then they'll imagine the toys have lives and what not
Like every time I'm in a club or some techno place, I
... See moreThe idea of cognitive bias in psychology works in an analogous way. A cognitive bias is a systematic error in how we think, as opposed to a random error or one that’s merely caused by our ignorance. Whereas statistical bias skews a sample so that it less closely resembles a larger population, cognitive biases skew our thinking so that it less accur... See more
Difference between Propositional and Perspectival Knowledge
Propositional knowing: knowing that is something the case
Persperctival knowledge - knowing what’s it’s like to be you in your state of mind, here, right now.
The parenting thing is that a couple is always fundamentally at an informational asymmetry about making a decision on whether or not
... See more3 of Seneca's Metaphors for Taking Notes
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Biases: An Introduction — LessWrong
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But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find most meaningful and fulfilling. The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and inter
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