reading _The Master and His Emissary_ on a lowgrade high
on the prologue
some thoughts
1. emotional roller coaster as he alternates between sublime and cringe takes
2. why arent all of you talking about this
3. feels big. tentative on this. still getting a bead on the author
on the prologue
some thoughts
1. emotional roller coaster as he alternates between sublime and cringe takes
2. why arent all of you talking about this
3. feels big. tentative on this. still getting a bead on the author
brains, the things the thing the universe made to see itself uses to see, seeing themselves
if i were a brain i would simply understand my own structure and function
this book is super good
observation: people dont usually think about experience and metacognitive training and development
just take minds as there or not, knowledge as present or not
certain models of integration work very well with his left/right framework
observation: people dont usually think about experience and metacognitive training and development
just take minds as there or not, knowledge as present or not
certain models of integration work very well with his left/right framework
specifically speaks to my understanding of statistics and the manner in which I learned it
the back and forth between "model" and "intuition" in economics similarly
the back and forth between "model" and "intuition" in economics similarly
going to continue this thread mostly to collect questions that fall out of the framework the author proposes
expect this will be extensive
expect this will be extensive
Q1. How does hemispheric specialization play out in nonhuman animals?
- do eg cats have a rich but nonverbal inner life they simply dont/cant explicate for the most part
- (more questions once I actually read the relevant section)
- do eg cats have a rich but nonverbal inner life they simply dont/cant explicate for the most part
- (more questions once I actually read the relevant section)
Q2. How does contextual hemispheric preference/dominance develop? How much is raw genetics, how much fetal development, how much random environment, how much trainable; interactions thereof
Implications for the effects of schooling, media environments, specific learning methods
Implications for the effects of schooling, media environments, specific learning methods