Sublime

An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster figur

observer effect, by which individuals under study modify their behavior because of their awareness of the study.

Relativity is built on two sets of decision shortcuts. First, when we can’t assess absolute value, we use comparisons. Second, we tend to choose the easy comparison.

the Heisenberg principle (which states, roughly, that an act of observation produces changes in what is observed),

The experimental method of inquiry aims at establishing regular events which can be repeated. Consequently, unique or rare events are ruled out of account.

parameters: the quality and accuracy of the feedback we receive determines how quickly we learn.2

Je crois que c’est Jung qui a trouvé la formule psychanalytique la plus machiavélique : « Si vous ne comprenez pas le sens des actes de quelqu’un, observez-en les conséquences et vous découvrirez ses intentions. »

Bernardo Huberman's research group at Hewlett-Packard developed a scheme that first asked each person to bet on what everyone else was going to say.`° This "common knowledge" was then discounted, since it was obviously being counted more than once.