Maybe we can all remember a moment or many moments when an adult drew a hard line for us around what was possible. And maybe when that line was made explicit, instead of stopping right there, we just ended up wanting to cross it even more. In those moments, we may have gotten to practice with safe boundaries. We may have also been stuck in a kind of neurological overdrive, trying to feel right in the world, that can at times lead to missing out on important information. What helps you discern important differences between taking a stand and standing in ignorance?
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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 hold forks high in the air and exclaim together, "More cake!" A larger heart with a raised eyebrow responds, "It's all gone." The two smaller hearts shout louder, "MORE! MORE!! MORE!!!!" Text reads: "Backfire Effect: When evidence that emerges and refutes a position evokes a stauncher adherence."]
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