Types and Certainty of Knowledge
What do you know for sure? Knowledge. Immediate, Secondary, and Authority
Category: Daily Life
These posts revolve about regular daily life, often including measurements and deductions.
Decision Model Ethics
These basic imperatives—satiety, sex, safety—get coated by personal, family, and societal perspectives which organize a unique set of individual experiences into one's moral values.
Two Types of Thinking
The Dual Process theory divides a person's thinking in two streams - immediate action to external reality and slower planning by logical decision-making.
Letting Your Subconscious Work For You
Link your memories and interests with the course material. Do this before the course starts. So it's your interests, not the teacher's.
Dreaming in Sleep Apnea
My theory is that the many subconscious wakeups, reported in my sleep apnea study, reinitiate the same dream, when the wakeups occur frequently within a REM cycle.
Nature Nurture Free Will
Is our behavior completely explained by nature and nurture or does individual free choice play a role?
Two Big Questions
1. If you believe in religion, how do you logically reject other supernatural interventions? 2. If you believe in science, how do explain free will?
Memory Types
Working memory has two special processes to note. The visual-spatial scratchpad helps us answer questions like 'how many windows in your house?' We also have a phonological loop that we use for reasoning, 'to talk…