analects noun, pl
/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/
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- men and women are from earth, fool pt. iii 27 Sep 2024 [article] This book is basically, “men are terribly emotionally fragile, and they can make small steps to be better, but women need to just stop bothe...
- men and women are from earth, fool pt. ii 20 Sep 2024 [article] I guarantee, no matter how sexy traditional gender roles are to you, that you do not want to be like Gray’s ‘men’.
- men and women are from earth, fool pt. i 13 Sep 2024 [article] Not only is there is absolutely no difference between men and women in how they complain or offer criticism, but the ‘men’ Gray describe cou...
- great spirits of history 6 Sep 2024 [article] The ‘Great Man’ theory of history has the history of ideas moved forward by individuals. But by thinking of these as ‘Great Ideas’, or bette...
- how neurons influence behaviour 30 Aug 2024 [article] Neurons link into ‘pathways’ that map perceptions to actions. But, neural pathways don’t just link one thing to one other thing—each pathway...
- speaking in tongues 23 Aug 2024 [article] Glossolalia has a unique pattern of neural activity, distinct from psychopathologies and even other trance-like states. So, the feeling unde...
- why do people kill themselves? 16 Aug 2024 [article] Suicide is the interaction between personal despair and the failure of communities to provide reasons to live. We can’t answer Camus’ “one t...
- the value of violence 9 Aug 2024 [article] The utility of violence isn’t in the violence itself, but only in the threat of it. It creates immediate behaviour change, but only for so l...
- it's not social media, life is just worse 2 Aug 2024 [article] Social media use probably isn’t the problem. Social media use is probably just the most obvious manifestation of lots of problems. And in fa...
- how does the brain 'think'? pt. iii 26 Jul 2024 [article] The brain almost certainly has many processes that contribute to any decision. Here we have one that cares about what it sees, and maybe ano...
- how does the brain 'think'? pt. ii 19 Jul 2024 [article] The brain probably enhances colour information, inhibits word information, or some combination to solve the Stroop task. I found inhibition,...
- how does the brain 'think'? pt. i 12 Jul 2024 [article] It’s not exactly clear how often humans really ‘think’. Most of what we do is automatic—habitual responding to a predictable world. But ther...
- meditating for fun and for profit 5 Jul 2024 [article] Meditation generally involves either acknowledging or excluding thoughts, but can be problematic. Movement-based meditations (e.g. yoga, run...
- memory and imagination both use the same architecture 28 Jun 2024 [article] Memory takes the form of neural maps in the brain, tying our experiences and perceptions together. These maps are the same maps we use to pr...
- ai isn't that scary 22 Jun 2024 [article] AI alarmism thrives on speculative, worst-case scenarios, but our understanding of AI’s fundamentally alien nature and the complex forms of...
- ideologies stack 15 Jun 2024 [article] Fringe theories always seem to cluster together. It seems weird, but mainstream theories also do, we just don’t often examine them. Examinin...
- reflections on a phd 23 May 2024 [article] Many aspects of my PhD were surprising to me, but in hindsight, they didn’t have to be. Here’s my reflections on how I’d go about it if I’d...
- purple doesn't exist 18 Apr 2024 [article] We see short light waves as blue, medium as green, and long as red. When the brain senses short (blue) and long (red) but not medium (green)...
- overengineering 'calm down' 21 Mar 2024 [article] Pop-psych theories on stress often use complex jargon to describe fundamentally simple concepts. They act less to inform, and more to reassu...
- the value of brain waves 19 Feb 2024 [article] Brain waves are subject to the same pop-psych fluff as everything else brain related. There’s no harm in it, but looking a little more caref...
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