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Why Your Brain Loves Predicting Music

Music is organised sound, structured to tease the predictive machine that is your brain.

Nov 12, 2024

Why Your Brain Loves Predicting Music

Nov 12, 2024

The Matter With The Mind

Is the mind what the brain does? Might a computer do the same?

Jun 1, 2024

The Matter With The Mind

Jun 1, 2024

Why You Shouldn’t Value Everything in Dollars and Cents

Exchange value is everywhere, but the allure of money and incentives can overshadow the true value of experiences.

Sep 12, 2023

Why You Shouldn’t Value Everything in Dollars and Cents

Sep 12, 2023

Published in
Collosum

The Illusion of Moral Decline

How two psychological biases produce a persistent perception of moral decline, and what you can to do overcome the illusion.

Aug 22, 2023

The Illusion of Moral Decline

Aug 22, 2023

AI Doesn’t Understand Much—But Maybe A Little

What does it even mean to understand?

Jun 20, 2022

AI Doesn’t Understand Much—But Maybe A Little

Jun 20, 2022

Published in
Ed-Tech Talks

What Degree of Wrong Are You?

If you’re not right, then you’re wrong. Right?

Apr 5, 2022

What Degree of Wrong Are You?

Apr 5, 2022

How To Survive Automation

Where’s your place in the future of work?

Mar 21, 2022

How To Survive Automation

Mar 21, 2022

The Trouble With Improving Our Stereotypes

When it comes to judging people, first impressions are quick, easy, and compelling — but are they accurate?

May 20, 2021

The Trouble With Improving Our Stereotypes

May 20, 2021

Published in
Connecting the Dots

Gambling on the Gods

Have humans been worshipping the wrong Gods throughout our history? Maybe it’s time to start looking towards the future.

Mar 11, 2021

Gambling on the Gods

Mar 11, 2021

Published in
Connecting the Dots

The Neuroscience of Patience

What happens in your brain when you play the waiting game?

Dec 10, 2020

The Neuroscience of Patience

Dec 10, 2020

Published in
Connecting the Dots

Is Technology Neutral?

Kranzberg’s first law: Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

Nov 17, 2020

Is Technology Neutral?

Nov 17, 2020

Why We Leave Our Best Ideas Undiscovered

There’s a misalignment between our expectations and the reality of the creative process.

Sep 1, 2020

Why We Leave Our Best Ideas Undiscovered

Sep 1, 2020

Published in
Connecting the Dots

The 3 Steps to Correcting Your Faulty Intuitions

Intuitions are quick and convincing, and often get the job done. But not always, and when they’re wrong, we need to know about it.

Aug 7, 2020

The 3 Steps to Correcting Your Faulty Intuitions

Aug 7, 2020

Published in
Connecting the Dots

Don’t Let Your Self-Narrative Fool You

Being good can get in the way of becoming better

Jul 10, 2020

Don’t Let Your Self-Narrative Fool You

Jul 10, 2020

Published in
Human Parts

Believing Is Easy, but Being Correct Is Difficult

Our fast brains are gullible, and our slow brains can fix things up… when they get around to it

Jun 25, 2020

Blue reflection of person drinking from cup.

Jun 25, 2020

Published in
Connecting the Dots

How Doubt Leads to Better Decisions

“Uncertainty Is an Uncomfortable Position. But Certainty Is an Absurd One.” — Voltaire

Jun 3, 2020

How Doubt Leads to Better Decisions

Jun 3, 2020

Published in
Connecting the Dots

The Heavy Price of Stupidity

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation

May 26, 2020

The Heavy Price of Stupidity

May 26, 2020

Published in
Lotus Fruit

You’re Irrational For A Reason

Biases are mental shortcuts, not flaws but features used out of context

May 17, 2020

You’re Irrational For A Reason

May 17, 2020

Published in
The Startup

How to Stack Skills and Become a Polymath

A brighter future awaits those who take education into their own hands

Apr 24, 2020

How to Stack Skills and Become a Polymath

Apr 24, 2020

Published in
Connecting the Dots

Animation and the Nature of Perception

Is perception continuous and unbroken, or a series of static images like films and movies?

Apr 10, 2020

Animation and the Nature of Perception

Apr 10, 2020

Sam Brinson

Sam Brinson

An emergent property of billions of chaotically firing neurons. Currently thinking about thinking. http://sambrinson.com/

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