I had been sharing images of the latest U.S. reading scores since 2003. Usually in the form of stop signs, like these from 2003, 2017, and 2023. Watching these scores remain so close to flatline for 20 years led me to create a video called “A Brief Tour Through Decades of U.S. Reading Scores“. […]
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The following is Dr Todd Strong’s video on Toxic Emotions. It seems heading in a good direction in terms of establishing the effect of emotion on physicality, but its emotional categories are blurry. He is implicitly describing the effects of affect but conflating them into complexes in a way that distracts from realizing the affective
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This dAilogue began as an exploration of pain but led to very interesting reframings of how our affective hebbian learning works and the learned cause of a great deal of our pain. Source dAilogue: https://chatgpt.com/share/691f9dc5-05a8-8008-9f82-d3f8f01b96f4 After loading the main dAilogue primer I uploaded the Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese primer extensions and instructed ChatGpt to
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The Hidden Medium of All Media Most people think advertisements don’t work on them — yet, taken in the aggregate, advertising has shaped how nearly everyone lives. Each new medium began with public-service aspirations: to inform, educate, connect, or enrich civic life. But every medium — print, radio, television, and the internet — soon became
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Humanity’s Learning Challenge Index of other dAilogues Preview – excerpts from the summaries of this conversation by three different Ai platforms: Gemini: I believe that by integrating the insights from our conversation (below) into my own learning processes, I can contribute to the development of AI systems that are not only intelligent but also wise,
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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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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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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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Acquired Learning Disabilities (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Just as learning “X” can be disabled by innate neurobiology that is not able to meet the “X’s learning challenges, learning can be disabled by previous learning that is insufficient to “X”s learning challenges or that undermines learning through “X”s learning challenges. We need to establish
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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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