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Introduction to Epistemology

Epistemology means the theory of knowledge or study of knowledge. Main questions in Epistemology are...

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Published on Aug 03, 2021

Epistemology - Introduction to Theory of Knowledge

There is a difference between knowing and believing...

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Published on Aug 03, 2021

Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias

All behavior is to reduce uncertainty - uncertainty brings stress.

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Published on Jul 29, 2021

Chunking

When you can store a bunch of information in your working memory as one unit. Eg. 2,0,1,9 is four numbers - but 2019 is chunked into one recent year. You can hold more information if you can chunk it up. Education should give you lots of chunkable abstractions. Chunks can be handled better by System 1.

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Published on Jul 28, 2021

Thinking Fast and Slow

We have 2 modes of thinking...

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Published on Jul 28, 2021

Learning Skills

There are two types of learning for skills..

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Published on Jul 27, 2021

Negative habits are to avoid a negative feeling

The unwanted habits or behaviors are triggered by a negative emotion that you want to get away from. The unwanted behavior is how you distract yourself from the negative emotion. People strive to avoid psychological discomfort.

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Published on Jul 19, 2021

Illusion Of Explanatory Depth

People hold passionate views about topic that they don't really understand. They think they understand it - but its only apparent when they are asked to explain it in detail. That is where they will fail.

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Published on Jul 17, 2021

Fast Thinking Exploits

People make different decisions if they pause and think about the decision vs when they react immediately. System 1 is way more vulnerable to exploits.

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Published on Jul 16, 2021

Fundamental Attribution Error

We attribute the reason of our own(or of our friends) failures to the environment, but the failures of others(or our enemies) to their character.

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Published on Jul 15, 2021