While learning often occurs through the mechanisms of discernment, prediction, and repetition, it also includes curiosity, experimentation, and observation. At times learning can also be narrowly or even negatively shaped through distressed thinking, and conversely can blossom through encouragement and positive thinking. With a little distance from our own thinking we may be able to better track the impact of our expectations on our understanding. What helps you witness your own perceptions?
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
[image description: Two hearts are talking to each other. The heart on the left holds up a wrist with a watch on it and says, "They're not here yet. Not surprised!" The heart on the right asks, "Are they late?", to which the heart on the left responds, "Not yet. But they will be soon."]
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