Monday, September 27, 2021

How Logic Filters Our Thinking. Why is everyone's thinking so crazy? Is it Confirmation Bias?.



Logic is about understanding what follows from something else. If p, then q. 

However, have we used the correct reasoning? Did we make the correct assumption or inference?

In logic parlance, from p to q. Logic takes us from the premise via inference, to a conclusion. However, often there are often logical fallacies, where a person is attacked, or correlation is not causation, or either-or thinking, distortion, overgeneralization, using a slippery slope, or a false analogy. Our own biases interrupt logical thinking. That is Confirmation Bias. Confirmation Bias is where we interpret and recall information that supports our own biases. 




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Sunday, September 19, 2021

Depressed. When was the Last Time You Played? Make a Playdate with Yourself.




Children playing at creating the effect of a wet day with bellows

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Here's a Book you might like: 

 Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown


Insightful Quotes: George Bernard Shaw:
         We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. 

Albert Einstein: 
         Play is the highest form of research.