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dAilogues: Our Learning Disabling Conception of Learning

Our Learning Disabling Conception of Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Misattributing causes to effects misdirects and misorients our learning about those effects. Maladaptive cognitive schema and maladaptive emotional reflexes are both consequences of having learned to make and believe in attributions that shunt learning into acceptance and reinforcement rather than scaffold learning […]

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dAilogues: Verbal and Nonverbal Learning

Verbal and Nonverbal Learning  Index of other dAilogues I wrote the following in 1987. Do you understand it? Do you agree with it? How would you say it today? Verbal awareness is not just the awareness of words but the organization of awareness by images, symbols, and words. Nonverbal awareness is not just the non-awareness

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dAilogues: Resonance, Attraction & Impedance vs Attenuation

Resonance, Attraction, & Impedance vs Attenuation Index of other dAilogues Is there a term for the relationship between “resonance” and “attraction”? Does resonance have a kind of gravity that correlates all that resonates? While there isn’t one specific term for the relationship between resonance and attraction, various concepts and theories explore this connection. Here are

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dAilogues: Maladaptive Learning

Maladaptive Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Let’s come to a shared understanding of the term “maladaptive learning“. What does the term mean to you?  Maladaptive learning, in my understanding, refers to a learning process where an individual acquires or reinforces behaviors or thought patterns that hinder their ability to adapt effectively to

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dAilogues: Foundational Misattributions and Their Consequences

Foundational Misattributions and Their Consequences (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues List and give one or two sentence descriptions of the biggest mistakes in human history that boil down to having been a consequence of a foundational misattribution.  Here are some of the biggest mistakes in human history rooted in foundational misattributions, along with

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dAilogues: Misattributing The Effects of Our Own Learning

Misattributing The Effects of Our Own Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Part 1:  Misattributions as Acquired Learning Disabilities Part 2: Misattributing the Effects of Our Own Learning Part 3: Summaries for Different Audiences Part 4: Definitions of Misattributions Part 5: “Growth Mindset” as Misattribution Part 6: Examples of Misattribution Part 7: Misattributions

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dAilogues: Defining Learning, Learned Learning Disabilities, Epigenetics

Defining Learning, Learned Learning Disabilities, Epigenetics (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Part 1: Defining Learning Part 2: Learned Learning Disabilities Part 3: Future Prompts for Defining Learning Part 4: Epigenetics  Part 1: Defining Learning  Imagine that we have had numerous past conversations through which we developed an agreement about the meaning of the word

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Thinking About How Shame Works

This dailogue explores how the affect shame, the neurobiological precursor to the emotion of shame, seems to work.  Background: I am grateful to have been mentored into learning about shame by my dear friend, the epistemological philosopher and affect therapist, Gary David PhD. Gary is a proponent and practitioner of the work of the late

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As Simple As Possible, But No Simpler. Why?

It’s always been my all time favorite quote, but not for reasons that most people (and Ai) seem to think. Attributed to him by attendees of his speeches, there remains some debate as to whether he actually said those words exactly that way. But there is no doubt that the quote conveys (in as simple

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Nothing Is More Crucial Than Stewarding The HEALTH of Children’s Learning

DB: Given your well stated affirmation of the universal importance of learning to everyone and everything. Given your understanding of past transgenerational learning on the situation today and your understanding of the future of effects of transgenerational learning on the grand scale challenges humanity faces. What could possibly be more important to the future of

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