In a way, the distance between one and two is in fact greater than the distance between eight and nine. By the logic of logarithmic thinking, one to two is two times as much, which is far more than between eight and nine, a ratio of increase closer to one. This logarithmic thinking appears to be innate in babies. Discrete counting of units must be learned. And the trouble that our brains can have with discrete counting of, let's say, 1,286 jelly beans in a jar of many jelly beans, can be adaptive in helping us grasp logarithmic threats, like the exponential spread of contagious disease. It can also be maladaptive when we miss or ignore discrete measures that are statistically significant, such as actual morbidity rates by cause or influence. What helps you stay curious about numerical data?
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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.
MindfulHearts retrospective.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
[image description: Two hearts stand talking under a bright blue wide open sky. A plane is flying by overhead. The heart on the left has one hand up in a questioning gesture and asks, "Is it even moving?" To which, the other heart replies, "It's going 500 mph." Text reads: "Weber-Fechner Law: Cognitive challenges with making comparisons of small differences within large quantities."]
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