Tag: neuroscience
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You Don’t Forget What You Loved
I was asked a technical question about a system I worked on more than 10 years ago. I expected nothing from my mind as a response. But I explained it… and then grabbed a pen. Started sketching. High-level design first.…
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Why 18 years old is a milestone? A brain story.
I want my 9-year-old to understand why we say “parents know more”. She often resists and says “I know more” so I have to remind her that the legal age to make independent life decisions is 18 for a reason.…
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Mary’s Room Experiment and the Nature of Experience
Today I was thinking about the famous Mary’s Room thought experiment after listening to Alex O’Connor’s podcast, where he challenged a physicist to claim that philosophy is a real science. To illustrate his point, he referred to Mary’s Room thought…
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Intuition is God Skill
You can create God skill with human practice, with material world, with sensory data. Intuition is a superhuman ability that can lead to extraordinary insights and discoveries. Observe, imagine, interpret. These 3 will boost your intuition by enhancing your awareness…
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Neuroplasticity
“It is hard, I want to quit piano,” my 8-year-old daughter said when she struggled with a note for Level 2 AMEB piano exam. I wasn’t a pianist, so I couldn’t help her play, but I could motivate her not…
