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The predictive brain has much in common with Freud's general understanding of how the mind functions. Predictions are comparable to desires (or wishes), and desires encounter limitations imposed by reality. Behaviour is a compromise, a middle way negotiated between internal drives and the environment. These compromises are, in effect, revised 'pred

Some of the most powerful thinking in the area of strategic intelligence has come from David Perkins.14 His work is particularly helpful in two crucial areas: defining what strategic (or reflective) intelligence actually is, and seeking to understand the mechanisms of ‘transfer’ that is, how something that had been learned in one context becomes av

Unified Theories of Cognition,

They can combine frames into cognitive networks.

If competence without comprehension is so wonderfully fecund—capable of designing nightingales, after all—why do we need comprehension—capable of designing odes to nightingales and computers?

What are the consequences of thinking that your intelligence or personality is something you can develop, as opposed to something that is a fixed, deep-seated trait?

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.

A fine example of the non-transfer of skill exists in chess playing. It’s one of the most studied skills by psychologists, because its need for sequencing ideas, using memory, and developing projection in thinking ought to fire up the neurons like nothing else: top chess players should be top-notch problem solvers, with all the practice they get. B