Thursday, 22 August 2024

2 sides to every story

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FALSE MEMORY 

false memory that examine how people sometimes mistake remembered imaginings for remembered real experiences—first demonstrated in the 1990s by the work of Elizabeth Loftus, and a phenomenon that has plagued everything from eyewitness testimony to talk therapy

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We rely on our memory to understand the reality we live in.

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As soon as you try to do this, your mind is almost certainly going to mutiny. You’ll start having all sorts of random thoughts, such as: What’s for lunch? Do I need a haircut? What was Casper the Friendly Ghost before he died? Who was the Susan after whom they named the lazy Susan, and how did she feel about it? No big deal. This is totally normal. The whole game is simply to notice when you are distracted, and begin again. And again. And again. Every time you catch yourself wandering and escort your attention back to the breath, it is like a biceps curl for the brain. It is also a radical act: you’re breaking a lifetime’s habit of walking around in a fog of rumination and projection, and you are actually focusing on what’s happening right now.

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dreams were meant to be shared socially and evolved in humans to enhance emotional intelligence and empathy.

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discussing a dream in this way can lead to increased empathy between dream sharer and listeners. Blagrove argues this could have been valuable to ancestral survival in forming significant connections with others

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But what is equally important, and sobering, is how often we fool ourselves. And we fool ourselves not only individually but en masse. The tendency of a group of human beings to quickly come to believe something that its individual members will later see as obviously false is truly amazing. Some of the worst tragedies of the last century happened because well-meaning people fell for easy solutions proposed by bad leaders.”
― Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next


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“The most cherished goal in physics, as in bad romance novels, is unification.”
― Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: 


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