Pam
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Psychologist | Researcher | Cyberpsychology | Sometimes Writer
Pam
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12 Questions For Life
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Alva Noë in https://aeon.co/essays/can-computers-think-no-they-cant-actually-do-anything
The British philosopher R G Collingwood noticed that the painter doesn’t invent painting, and the musician doesn’t invent the musical culture in which they find themselves. And for Collingwood this served to show that no person is fully autonomous, a God-like
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comOpinion | The Essential Skills for Being Human
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing... See more
“But this is nothing new. The story of technology – from prehistory to now – has always been that of the ways we are entrained by the tools and systems that we ourselves have made. Think of the pathways we make by walking. To every tool there is a corresponding habit, that is, an automatised way of acting and being. From the humble pencil to the
... See moreCyberpsychology requires thinking about and integrating cultural, generational, ethical and social aspects. It requires broad perspectives and points of view, changes in the online vs. offline paradigm. - Pamela Note
It's a question most of us could do with asking ourselves. I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn't quite the real thing, not just yet – that soon enough, we'll get everything in working order, get organised, get our personal issues resolved, but
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