Throughout life, we can find ourselves utilizing a wide range of strategies for understanding time. These different past and future meaning-making strategies can help us to cope, survive, adapt, and even thrive in the context of being painfully, delightfully human. What do you believe about the future?
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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 smaller hearts on the left with blank or concentrated facial expressions are turned toward each other while looking at handheld devices. Two more larger hearts on the right are also turned toward each other. One of the larger hearts looks over its should at the two smaller hearts and says, "When we were kids we talked to each other. Young people today are losing their voices." The second larger heart looks out at the viewer with resigned or curious facial expression. Text reads: "Declinism: Predisposed to perceive the past as better than a supposed bleak future."]
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