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Robert Hamill

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    How We Think: Live on Substack

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    Can everybody be sensible, yet come to different conclusions?
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    Can everybody be sensible, yet come to different conclusions?

    Robert Hamill 23 Apr 201330 May 20222 Comments

    People who disagree are not necessarily being illogical. They may be evaluating facts and possibilities against different concerns and dimensions.

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    Design without a Designer
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    Design without a Designer

    Robert Hamill 19 Apr 201326 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    Our very, complex economic system has a design without a designer.

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    Gerrymander to the Supreme Court

    Robert Hamill 14 Apr 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Gerrymandering disenfranchises many citizens.

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    Nemesis
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    Nemesis

    Robert Hamill 3 Apr 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Because polio strikes mysteriously, most everyone formulates theories based on superstitions. Roth uses the capriciousness of the disease as an avenue to question God's role…

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    4 and 20 Years to Go
    College Surprises Poems

    4 and 20 Years to Go

    Robert Hamill 2 Apr 20136 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    I always liked Stephen Stills song, "4 and 20 Years Ago." Now I have, maybe, 4 and 20 years before I go.

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    Gerrymandering Thwarts Majority Rule
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    Gerrymandering Thwarts Majority Rule

    Robert Hamill 18 Mar 201330 May 20224 Comments

    The majority of PA votes were cast for Democratic candidates but gerrymandering lead to Republicans winning 13 seats with Democrats garnering but 5 seats!

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    Two Methods of Thinking

    Robert Hamill 20 Feb 201317 Dec 20241 Comment

    Pattern-matching, like analogy, where we treat partial matches like exact fits. It's possible to make errors. It's possible to jump to a good answer without…

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    Language and Pattern-Matching
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    Language and Pattern-Matching

    Robert Hamill 18 Jan 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Words are the names of the situations and patterns we experience

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    Active Completion of Internal Worldview
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    Active Completion of Internal Worldview

    Robert Hamill 15 Jan 20137 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    Each of us only receives a slice of the entire reality at any particular minute, but our internal world sees it as complete. How?

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    Roads Define Landscape
    Daily Life

    Roads Define Landscape

    Robert Hamill 6 Jan 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Ideas define your thought-scape as roads do the visual landscape.

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      Boomer…Sees the Light

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    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    How Do We Think

    Visit Substack to Delve into How We Think

    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

    • Morality. Absolute or Relative
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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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      Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)