I’ve been thinking about memes. 2 years ago, I called meme templates, meme phrases, and reel content outsourced cognition – borrowing others’ structured thoughts. Using…
From a theoretical POV, our memory is the base component of measurable learning. Read on to explore learning and memory in an educational context. This…
I explore how humans need context and meaning for logical thinking. Without context, we aren’t able to use even the simplest of logical thoughts. And…
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If you wish to understand something, you must first repeat it. This article is a short explanation of how and when students of a new …
When people say, “My heart says yes, but my mind says no,” they’re not being poetic. It might seem like they are using a metaphor, …
Think of social media as making soup. Most users are stirring the pot. Some users are adding ingredients. The pot stirrers effectively keep social media …
First, there is what we observe and do – the sensory stuff. Then, there is a perception of what we sense in our heads. Holding …
Someone said remember – “5 tomatoes” to figure out how many feet there are in a mile. It is 5 2 8 0 (five two …
What happens when our greatest creation outsmarts us – not maliciously, but by giving us exactly what we think we want?” A 2-tiered trust issue …
How does the brain create ideas??? – Music, text, visual design, reels, adverts, dance, etc.? I’ve consolidated multiple processes into one model. Let’s also dissect …
2 forces collided and imploded to become a self-sustaining consumer habit. ⚔️ The speed of everything is increasing, well at least in the consumer cosmos. …
Unlike a computer, which would recruit multiple “cores” to multitask, the brain has to use a pretty sophisticated workaround to multi-task. And it all comes …
Whoever engages with the beautiful has a good soul. Emmanuel Kant said something like that. Hegel said the art we create transcends the beauty of …
As the world changes, we are a little blind to process those changes. We talk about changes to understand them. 2 problems – Hypocognition and …
Highlights Curiosity & Confusion are 2 of the most powerful emotions in education. 🤔Curiosity leads to exploration and filling one’s knowledge gap.😕Confusion leads to deep …
Social anxiety – a feeling of tension, self-doubt, and stress emerging from actually interacting with people and the idea of interacting with people. This can …
For eons we have been a civilization that used skills to adapt and adjust. We used skills to alter our environment by building things. One …
I just read this preprint[1] in which researchers have adapted a standard personality test (a version of the OCEAN Big 5 model) to assess LLMs’ …
At the simplest level, memory can be viewed as a 3-step process – encoding, storage, and retrieval. But you’ll see the story gets a lot …