We are constrained entities searching partway on various pathways for behaviors to satisfy our needs and goals while quelling our fears.
Finite Brain
Finite Brain, Granular Mind
Thought Modes
Milestones to Human Thought
A useful simplification, tied to organisms that preceded us, allow us to see when certain milestones in thought occurred. The origin of reflexes, instincts, habits, and choices.
Finite Brain
External Flux, Internal Stability
Abstraction, arising from neural properties, leads to internal operations with less detail, but more stability.
Finite Brain
Many Faces Of Induction
Induction is essential to a broad spectrum of our thinking, from categorizing our surroundings to choosing our next action, from artistic creation to scientific discovery.
Thought Modes
Induction. Neural Operations
Induction proceeds by reducing of detail and repeated experience laying categories until abstracted facts are categorized into the same rule.
Language, Learning
Squiggles and Letters
Do you remember learning to read? Perhaps letters on book pages looked like Woodstock’s, Snoopy’s friend, footprints.