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If there were giants…

Posted in Cognition, Language, Thinking on June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Daddy, is this true?  If there were giants, then a football to them would be the same size as a pea to us. That was, word for word, a completely out-of-the blue utterance by our 6 year old daughter, Lillian. Her “if…then” construct is what is known as a counter-factual conditional – If [something that [...]

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"One especially ambitious new offering…"

Posted in Austhink, Cognition, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The eminent journalist and author James Fallows writes an influential technology column, and in the latest one has discussed Rationale, in the context of software tools to help people “develop, refine, and express ideas”. I didn’t realise it upon first reading, but buried in the article is an account of the various kinds and levels [...]

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Consciousness the idiot manager

Posted in Cognition, Consciousness, Problem Solving on January 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Itzy Sabo is the creator an excellent Outlook plugin which lets you file emails quickly and easily. I don’t use it anymore since I switched to Gmail, where there’s no longer any need to file emails away. However I still keep an eye on Itzy’s blog, Email Overloaded, which often has interesting posts about coping [...]

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What The Thinker is really thinking

Posted in Cognition, Intelligence Augmentation on January 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Watch Le Grand Content – a short, well-produced and very entertaining video.  I’m not sure what it is meant to be – some kind of graphical poetry?  But it strikes me as an excellent portrayal of how conscious thought unfolds when one is trying to think about something.  Moments of structure mixed with free associations; occasional [...]

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Year in Ideas tidbits

Posted in Cognition, Critical Thinking, Decision Making on December 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Last week the New York Times published its “6th Annual Year in Ideas” in its Magazine.  81 bite-sized presentations of new ideas or trends; worth a read.  Trouble is, not much of what we read is remembered for very long.  Below I’ve listed the ones I’d like to be able to recall in a week or even [...]

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Better thinking is not conscious, and not unconscious

Posted in Cognition on November 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »

Sheryle Bolton at Brain Reserves has an interesting post commenting on recent research suggesting that “down time” can improve performance.  In that research, a lengthy rest period after memorization appeared to improve recall performance.  In her post Sheryle goes on to describe the familiar experience, that we can sometimes solve a difficult problem by “sleeping [...]

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