Control may be necessary at a personal and social level but is for all that no less a convenient fiction and a contingent, transient illusion than is self…
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Zero-Sum Games
There may be more-or-less hard-wired psychological reasons why we are unable to successfully navigate our shared problem-spaces…
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Gullibility and Ignorance
With or without reasons, we tend to fly on autopilot and by instinct alone…
Look before you leap…
Just listen…
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Problem-solving Tools
A method for creative problem-solving in which the focus is to some extent removed from the problem under analysis. Displacing the conceptual toolset to intuitively selected texts, papers and articles as a heuristic practice…
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An Ethical Vacuum
Nothing quite extinguishes any mythology of accomplishment and pride in the achievements and sophistication of human civilisation than seeing an utterly isolated homeless person sleeping on a ramshackle mattress and amid their few ignominiously-bagged worldly belongings while early morning commuters rush to work around them…
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Cognitive Unconscious
There is so very much, much more to your mind and brain than you will ever have full control of or even access to…
What it is about negative psychological or emotional states and narratives which seems to be so very much more contagious than the positive ones; what is the barb on the hook of negative narrative which just “sticks” in consciousness so successfully and resonates so broadly across social networks and cultures ?
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Fictional Pasts
Memories of fictional pasts, rewritten, overwritten, unrecognisably transformed but cherished as though they were possessions and facts…
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Contra Fake News
There exists a non-trivially common failure of aptitude in individuals’ capacity to distinguish between the truth of the (factual) existence of an assertion or statement and the actual, plausible or probable truth of that statement…
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Ant Colony
I’ve found myself several times near-hypnotised by the dancing patterns of ants on a summer day, swirling and pulsating across the ground near an ant nest; if you just stare at one spot and let your eyes defocus a little, the patterns of motion can start to swirl and spin like the dizzying randomness of […]
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