Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The ability to distract or delude yourself has never been greater,
Scott Young • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
we become aware that we have a self—we become truly self-aware.
Anil Seth • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
A human mind considers many ideas for every one that it ever acts upon, and only a small proportion of those cause behaviour that anyone else notices – and, of those, only a small proportion are ever replicated by anyone else.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Network size increased up to the age of about thirty, stabilised, and then began to decline again from the age of about sixty.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
self-consciousness was the product of a positive feedback loop between perception and reflection, the two eventually amplifying each other
Exurb1a • The Fifth Science
cognitive contretemps—this
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
The brain is good at cutting out the irrelevant.
Raph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
under what explanatory theory should they ‘imitate’?
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Neural Darwinism is still speculative.