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An advanced model capable of holding in focus all that information would have a profound familiarity with all the words and ideas that have shaped my personal mindset. Certainly its ability to provide accurate and properly-cited answers to questions about my worldview (or my intellectual worldview, at least) would exceed that of any other human.

the freedom of the press is precious and fragile and when a news organisation dies, it leaves a gaping hole.

W hen one is pr e-sented with a set of information that can be freely moved, manipulated, grouped and re -arrange d in a visuospatial manner, this interaction method can help us discover meanings or relationships.

there was substantial overlap in the brain networks used to understand stories and the networks used to navigate interactions with other individuals — in particular, interactions in which we’re trying to figure out the thoughts and feelings of others. Scientists call this capacity of the brain to construct a map of other people’s intentions “theory... See more

In a 2004 study, Angelo Maravita and Atsushi Iriki discovered that when monkeys and humans consistently use a tool to extend their reach, such as using a rake to reach an object, certain neural networks in the brain change their “map” of the body to include the new tool. This fascinating finding reinforces the idea that external tools can and

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Your success here will depend entirely on how successfully you can tell stories, and how successfully other people can repeat those stories, both to themselves and others.Your North Star here has to be: are other people retelling this story successfully?Port cities around the world are more similar to each other than they are to their inland... See more

It has been said that making sense of a situation i n-volves fitting its elements into some kind of structure that links them together (Kle in, Phillips, Rall, and Peluso, 2007), such as a story, a map, a script or a plan. That when people make sense of stimuli they do so by placing them into some kind of framework which allows them to,... See more

These stories have been given the name “teaching stories,” since their effect is not only to provide pleasure or a useful parable, but also to connect “with a part of the individual which cannot be reached by any other convention,” and establish “in him or in her, a means of communication with a nonverbalized truth beyond the customary limitations... See more