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Tag Archives: Assumptions
Bureaucratic Mirroring
I was interviewed by someone this week who was desperate to find a conspiracy theory. There isn’t one. But she was frustrated. After the interview I described to her the theory of ‘Bureaucratic Mirroring’. This is the institutional pathology that, … Continue reading
Redrawing Lines
Learning to listen and learning to care for people hasn’t always been my forte. I’ve always read the data: the expressions, the fleeting emotion crossing someone’s face, the tic which tells all. But for much of my life I tended … Continue reading
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Tagged Assumptions, Boundaries, Drawing Lines, Emotional Intelligence, Inner Calm
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The Fridge Door
I read a top neuroscientist’s suggestion last night that our capacity to understand how the human brain works may ultimately be limited by the capacity of our nervous system. This reminds me of a thought I had when studying philosophy … Continue reading
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Tagged Assumptions, Bayesian Brain, Cosmopolitanism, Fear, Probability, Stoic
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