Within my agency, within what I can affect, what is more determining of my health and wellness than my learning? I am in Blue. Gemini (formerly Bard) is in Black. This is one of a series of terminology agreements that will be used in future dAilogues. Within your agency, the two most crucial factors for […]
Though many determinants enable and constrain our potential agency, within what’s not determined, learning determines our agency. The scope of learning is a continuum that includes the entire content of individual and collective human consciousness, the biological adapting implicit in the cellular behavior of living bodies, and everything in between. I am in Blue.
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The future of everything depends on us (we the people) learning. Yet both political parties use state-of-the-art persuasion science to design and bombard us with ads engineered to manipulate our voting behaviors not facilitate our learning. Both parties depend on and predatorily exploit the emotional manipulability of our population. In the name of representing us, both
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I am in Blue. Claude is in Black We commonly use words and phrases in ways that either mean, depend on, or imply learning yet use them in ways that misdirect our awareness away from realizing the role of learning. When the ways we use words obscure our awareness of the role of learning in
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I am in Blue. Bard is in Black (via Bard) Humans use the phrase “outgrow” to describe the cessation of a lot of childish behaviors. List the 20 most common ways the phrase is used to describe the cessation of behaviors. 20 Ways We “Outgrow” Childish Behaviors: Tantrums: “She finally outgrew throwing tantrums when she
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This is an oldy, but still one of my favorites. I often used the clip below during my talks to illustrate the role of feedback in learning. Around that same time, an episode of House did a story on the use of the mirror box so I clipped them together. Watch for at least a
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This warmly, occasionally humorous, “guru” video has some very interestingly entertaining moments. I don’t travel in guru circles so before today I had never encountered Sadhguru. Sadhguru‘s description of the “monkey brain” reminded me of my time with Cary Tagawa. Both his description of the “problem” (what I call tangent migrations) and our “is it possible,
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No other creature is aware of the Earth like humans are. No other creature has diseased the Earth like humans have. No other creature cares about the Earth like humans do. Apes, and all other life-forms, live in tiny bubbles within our universe. All life forms live in a bubble defined by their dimensional extent.
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