An experimental personal conceptual knowledgebase.
A blog-based commonplace book.
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11, 2016
Extensible Umwelt
Our model of the world is a function of the [...]
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11, 2016
Perception is prediction
The likely mechanism by which confirmation bias works and in [...]
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11, 2016
Copernican principle
It's probably nothing special.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle
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11, 2016
Pessimistic meta-induction from the history of ideas
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal [...]
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11, 2016
Design via Variation With Selection
Design = fitness for purpose.Evolution via natural selection is the [...]
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09, 2016
Capitalism + Patrimony –> Plutocracy
R > G: The Return to capital exceeds the economic [...]
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08, 2016
Psychological Flow state characteristics
“There are clear goals every step of the way.” “There is [...]
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06, 2016
The double movement of Critical Thinking
Inductive inference + Deductive proof:"There is thus a double movement [...]
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06, 2016
Schopenhauer on the psychology of Stoicism / The First Noble Truth of Buddhism
"But if we have recognized that pain as such is [...]
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06, 2016
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Causality is a metaphysical assumption.Leucippus: Naught happens for nothing, but [...]