Debbie Foster
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Debbie Foster
Ask others about their beliefs and values. Ask them about experiences and those moments that caused them to change. Ask how they feel, rather than about facts. Reframe your questions so they are deeper. Ask follow-ups. And as people
Charles Duhigg • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
It was hard to tell whether it was more exhausting having the bad thoughts, or knowing how dumb the bad thoughts were.
Margaret Sarsfield • Beta Vulgaris
In the 1970s, Austrian astrophysicist Erich Jantsch argued that these same basic principles underlie the regularities of social existence too, up to and including the cultural symbol systems used by humans to encode meaningful information and guide our behavior.7 Today, quantum information theory, discussed in the last chapter, is also being
... See moreEric Wargo • Time Loops
What are the modes of cognition that equivalentists seem willing to attribute to an LLM but against which the exceptionalists push back so vehemently? The discussion hinges on the use of terms that are commonly used to refer to human mental states. Does an LLM 'know' the facts that it generates in reply to your queries? Does it 'believe' them to be
... See moreChristopher Summerfield • These Strange New Minds
The principle we must accept if we want to go on with our lives is that no paradox makes the world stop functioning as it should. The laws of the universe get their say. Things always snap back to how they should be, and a paradox always eventually runs out its charge. The only reasons why paradoxes perpetuate for as long as they do is because we
... See moreR. F Kuang • Katabasis: A Fantastical Descent into Hell, Rivalry, and Redemption in the Pursuit of Academic Glory from Author of Yellowface—R. F. Kuang
Large Print ed.
our brains have evolved this quick-acting system to examine mood and energy, which provides a general sense, in a split second, of someone’s emotional state. That’s usually enough to figure out how to align, and whether we should feel safe or alarmed.
Charles Duhigg • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
She had never been too tired to paint. She would have to update her will. She hadn’t looked at it since Richard died. “What
Deborah Reed • Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan
Freud set out to develop a medical specialism but succeeded in producing a complex system of thought, a new way of understanding the mind, relationships, history and culture.
Frank Tallis • Mortal Secrets
The soul or consciousness, in fact, is nothing but the unity of a sense of self over time, the bare fact that to perceive and then to articulate our perceptions something must connect from this very instant to another, and another after that.