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Something I explained to my 11 yo: When your brain tricks you, it's often because it's following a rule that made sense for most of our evolution. (The examples we were talking about were target fixation and the Monte Carlo fallacy.)
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I like Donald Hoffman's point of view: it's *all* tricks, because we don't perceive "reality as it is", just the interface shaped by natural selection. "We're shaped with tricks and hacks that keep us alive"https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is/transcript …
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I love his book.
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"all laws are local " - alan alda, http://edge.org
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(trolls however are not)
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once heard that when insurance co's train their experts in art fraud detection, they often will show them paintings upside down or inverted so that the brain doesn't fill in the gaps with prior knowledge and obscure any clues
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easy trick for mimicking hand-writing
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I’ve always liked the example of fight or flight (throat drying up because you’re nervous before public speaking... unhelpful in most modern situations, helpful if you need to run from a predator.)
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How's a dry throat helpful in any situation?
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Are you planning on writing a parenting book with all of these insights and examples?
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It's not a book, but you can find a list of Paul's parenting related insights here... http://www.unclepaul.io/
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