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Verbal Self-Reflexivity: The Leap In Learning That Learned Us

Humans likely evolved language as a way of learning to communicate with each other long before achieving the level of verbal representation, complexity, and speed sufficient to become verbally self-reflexive. Just as becoming language users is an evolutionary inflection point, so too is becoming verbally self-reflexive. Being able to learn through talking with ourselves opened

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Children of the Code: The Code and the Challenge of Learning to Read It

“Children of the Code*” is a documentary project that explores the “Code and the Challenge of Learning to Read It“.   It’s based on over 100 interviews with field leading scientists and scholars (overview of interviewees, transcripts, raw videos). The series distills over 1000 hours of conversations into 130 video components organized into 10 chapters. For

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In The Beginning Was The Word

I once spent a day in Salt Lake city with a team of Mormons engaged in developing educational software. The owner of the company had flown me in after reading about my work on “learner interfaces“, “distributed learning processing“, and how they meet and merge into each other in what I call a “miraculous intersection“.

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The Black Codes – Slavery 1.1 – Black History Month

We must never forget the ugly abuses of slavery or its legacy effects on African Americans to this day. However, it is vitally important that all people, regardless of their race or color, realize that slavery was never about race or color.  The people of West Africa just happened to be the most profitably exploitable

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Left Turn Only – The End of Legacy Politics

  The founders of the U.S. created a framework that liberated, enabled, and ignited a more learning-oriented way of being united. Not perfect, but more perfect. More perfectly conducive to a new kind of collaborative learning that ultimately lead the U.S. to become the most intelligent nation on the planet.   Today, predatorily and parasitically

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Learning Us

The following is a summary of a comprehensive dAilogue that explores the effects of learning to be human in unimaginably different climates for an unimaginably large number of generations. It provide an alternative explanatory dynamic that fits the facts of civilization, history, and religion. For the source:  https://davidboulton.com/dailogues-2/gai-ice-age-1/ G-Ai: This hypothesis posits that during the

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