I passed through a condensed Kübler-Ross model upon seeing the above greet me at Facebook. It went a little something like this:
- WTF?
- You’re 25 years too late.
- Damn, I’m old.
The resistance grows in strength as we get closer to shipping, as we get closer to an insight, as we get closer to the truth of what we really want. That’s because the lizard [brain] hates change and achievement and risk.
Seth Godin, Quieting the lizard brain
These and other insights from Linchpin, Godin’s new book. It’s outstanding.
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
Forgetting in a digital age
Dan Misener of CBC’s Spark:
In his new book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argues that forgetting is a natural human process, and that digital technology and cheap storage are creating all sorts of problems, from an assault on privacy, to an inability to make decisions.
Source: cbc.ca
Where consciousness isn't
Tuomas Manninen in Metapsychology:
The key assumption behind the science of consciousness is that consciousness is an internal process that occurs in the brain. Noë’s chief goal in [his book, Out of Our Heads,] is to show that this highly questionable, yet unquestioned assumption, has led the consciousness research astray; in brief, the search for consciousness has focused on where it isn’t. Noë opens by challenging this assumption, and offers an alternative picture. Instead of characterizing consciousness as an internal process (like digestion) Noë proposes a picture which takes consciousness to be an activity (like dancing).
This is a topic that fascinates me: what is consciousness and where and how does it occur? The scientific community has generally accepted that the mind is merely “what the brain does,” but that view seems to be shifting.
Source: 3quarksdaily.com
Indeed it would be realistic to say that what we have in common is our vulnerability; it is the medium of contact between us, what we most fundamentally recognize in each other.
Source: Washington Post
What Children’s Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
…children construct implicit causal models of the world (theories) using the same psychological mechanisms that scientists use to construct explicit scientific theories. In other words, children are like little scientists—or, as Gopnik prefers to put it, scientists are like big children.
Source: 3quarksdaily.com
As a musician, the purest experiences of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of “flow” that I’ve encountered have been while drumming. For some it’s running, for others it’s extreme sports; for me, it’s music.
(image via inflatablefish)
Source: inflatablefish
Hayakawa’s “Ladder of Abstraction”
This is a wonderful illustration of the concept of shunyata. Thanks, Merlin.
Source: rijnlandmodel.nl
If marketers (or their customers) understood biologists’ new calculations about animals’ “costly signaling,” Dr. Miller says, they’d see that Harvard diplomas and iPhones send the same kind of signal as the ornate tail of a peacock.
Source: 3quarksdaily.com
Every machine is haunted by the ghost of the human intention that animates it.
