Debbie Foster

@dafinor

The ability, or lack of it, to live with uncertainty shows up in psychology as the individual characteristic intolerance of uncertainty (IU). The person with more IU responds to situations of uncertainty with more negative emotions and rumination. It is a trans-diagnostic trait, i.e., it seems to be an important factor across various emotional diso
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from How We Break by Vincent Deary
The universe rather resembles a soup of experience-causing material, which your mind then separates into distinct, unified objects. And even this is inappropriately projecting our own conceptions of substance onto reality.
from A brief digression into Kant’s Transcendental Idealism by From Narrow To General AI
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he realized that mixing the two realms—treating, that is, intellectual ideas as if they had extension in space and duration in time or taking mere sensory impressions for inexhaustible and incontrovertible truths—would inexorably lead thinkers to untenable contradictions.
from The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
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Sex can teach us to relish the tumult of true equality. It can show us that the self need not remain imprisoned behind the eyes. And it can prove, if anything can at this late date, that there is a realm beyond rational exchange, a realm in which the profligacy of play is its own recompense.
from All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld
executing and monitoring the plan, and learning from the plan.[4]
from Planning for Everything by Peter Morville
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When we do not know what we should hope for, we can hope to learn.
from Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya
Imprisoned in the here and now, siloed by an ever-narrowing thresher of choices, we combine and connect experiences and create a story of ourselves, a timeline of our lives. At the same time, though, we imagine a story of our unlived lives, potentially infinite ramifications of worlds and meanings exceeding the grasp of anything but our imagination
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from The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
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There is no real forgetting. Everything leaves a mark, whether you remember it, whether you can bring it to mind or not. There is no subtraction in mind.
from How We Are by Vincent Deary
. through the [cave] paintings the animals are drawn into the notional world of human beings. This notional world stands in the same relation to the external world as the self does in relation to the inner world; it prevents us from vanishing into it.

Both the self and the notional world are immaterial entities, they don't exist in the same way elem
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from So Much Longing in So Little Space by Karl Ove Knausgaard

from How We Break by Vincent Deary

from A brief digression into Kant’s Transcendental Idealism by From Narrow To General AI

from The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton

from All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld

from Planning for Everything by Peter Morville

from Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya

from The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton

from How We Are by Vincent Deary

from So Much Longing in So Little Space by Karl Ove Knausgaard