Intuitions—ideas that come ineffably without logical foundation— arise from Almost Gates simplifying the amorphous and the merging together personal experience, cultural, linguistic, and academic knowledge.
In neuroscience, the process I call pattern-matching is sometimes referred to as an invariant operation. Yohan John in Quora raises the question How does your brain discover association in the…
The history of science offers excellent examples of intuitive leaps. Here are two that reveal a manner in which creativity is beyond logic, but not beyond investigation nor insights. Dmitri…
Mentalese is a term for the collection of ideas which attempt to describe our thoughts and internal monologues. What symbols do we use for thinking and what rules do they…
During critical periods you develop personal behaviors and mental worldview that become the foundation for subsequent knowledge and decision making
An emphasis on art, music, and creative writing often leads to exposure to examples of successful creations in which you grasp the pattern and features that make the art work for you
Neurons exist in the newborn. None connected to others. Isolated neurons don’t produce meaningful sounds. As infants experience sounds in their first month, connections between the neurons are established.
Do you remember learning to read? Perhaps letters on book pages looked like Woodstock’s, Snoopy’s friend, footprints.
Cultural behaviors are not responses to immediate demands, but to choices that arise when immediate demands are distant from a daily decisions.
Learning is evidenced by changes in the magnitude of the signal that is transported across the synaptic gap.
Do you remember learning to read? Perhaps letters on book pages looked like Woodstock’s, Snoopy’s friend, footprints.