Dopamine, dukkha, and the evolutionary sense of striving
Fodder for a future development on dopamine-induced ceaseless striving, dukkha, [...]
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03, 2021
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06, 2019
Dymaxion Dreams
So much to do. Why does that weigh on me [...]
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11, 2016
Natural rights: nonsense upon stilts
"natural rights ... simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical [...]
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11, 2016
Mind as a Camera Metaphor
The human mind is like a camera with both automatic [...]
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11, 2016
Argumentative Theory of Reasoning
Reason is a form of social intelligence evolved not to [...]
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06, 2016
Who’s in a Name? Aspirational Appellations for Self-Improvement
We label other people frequently.“Michelle is a huge gossip.”“Mike is [...]
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01, 2016
Models, Metaphors, & Methods for Habit Formation
As I begin to write this post, I mark a [...]
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01, 2014
The Big 5 Personality Traits
extraversionagreeableness opennessconscientiousnessneuroticismindependently verified from multiple psychological studies
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02, 2009
Round-trip error
Humans tend to conflate statements of the form, "no evidence [...]
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02, 2009
Confirmation bias
Human propensity to look for evidence supporting a theory rather [...]