Sublime

Notre cerveau porte en lui des milliers de modèles du monde extérieur.

apprendre, c’est fixer les paramètres d’un modèle hiérarchique de la réalité.

In this view, learning becomes similar to programming: it consists of selecting the simplest internal formula that fits the data, among all those available in the language of thought.

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

Learning, in this sense, therefore means managing an internal hierarchy of rules and trying to infer, as soon as possible, the most general ones that summarize a whole series of observations.

This classic effect (which is even more striking when the words are printed in color) reflects the intervention of your executive control system. When the words and colors conflict, the central executive must inhibit word reading to remain focused on the task of naming the ink color.

Chunking the information you deal with helps your brain run more efficiently.