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East Coast Q4 2014 Letter: All Is Well Since All Grows Better (LINK) Allan Mecham’s Arlington Value Capital 2014 Annual Letter (LINK) Cantab Capital Partners: Cursed by Randomness [H/T @george_cooper__) (LINK) Fireside Chat with Eric Schmidt and Sal...
- Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! - By Miguel Barbosa
Your must-read of the day: Link to: Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! I think that understanding how to learn about mental models remains (unexplored and unpopular). In other words, the journey that every aspiring renaissance thinker...
- Bits Of Mystery Dna, Far From ‘junk,’ Play Crucial Role
Among the many mysteries of human biology is why complex diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and psychiatric disorders are so difficult to predict and, often, to treat. An equally perplexing puzzle is why one individual gets a disease like cancer...
- The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever - By Jonah Lehrer
This new model of memory isn’t just a theory—neuroscientists actually have a molecular explanation of how and why memories change. In fact, their definition of memory has broadened to encompass not only the cliché cinematic scenes from childhood...
- Psychology Of Intelligence Analysis By Richards J. Heuer Jr.
Of the diverse problems that impede accurate intelligence analysis, those inherent in human mental processes are surely among the most important and most difficult to deal with. Intelligence analysis is fundamentally a mental process, but understanding...
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The New Science of Mind – by Eric Kandel
THESE days it is easy to get irritated with the exaggerated interpretations of brain imaging — for example, that a single fMRI scan can reveal our innermost feelings — and with inflated claims about our understanding of the biological basis of our higher mental processes.
Such irritation has led a number of thoughtful people to declare that we can never achieve a truly sophisticated understanding of the biological foundation of complex mental activity.
In fact, recent newspaper articles have argued that psychiatry is a “semi-science” whose practitioners cannot base their treatment of mental disorders on the same empirical evidence as physicians who treat disorders of the body can. The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
But this is starting to change.
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East Coast Q4 2014 Letter: All Is Well Since All Grows Better (LINK) Allan Mecham’s Arlington Value Capital 2014 Annual Letter (LINK) Cantab Capital Partners: Cursed by Randomness [H/T @george_cooper__) (LINK) Fireside Chat with Eric Schmidt and Sal...
- Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! - By Miguel Barbosa
Your must-read of the day: Link to: Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! I think that understanding how to learn about mental models remains (unexplored and unpopular). In other words, the journey that every aspiring renaissance thinker...
- Bits Of Mystery Dna, Far From ‘junk,’ Play Crucial Role
Among the many mysteries of human biology is why complex diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and psychiatric disorders are so difficult to predict and, often, to treat. An equally perplexing puzzle is why one individual gets a disease like cancer...
- The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever - By Jonah Lehrer
This new model of memory isn’t just a theory—neuroscientists actually have a molecular explanation of how and why memories change. In fact, their definition of memory has broadened to encompass not only the cliché cinematic scenes from childhood...
- Psychology Of Intelligence Analysis By Richards J. Heuer Jr.
Of the diverse problems that impede accurate intelligence analysis, those inherent in human mental processes are surely among the most important and most difficult to deal with. Intelligence analysis is fundamentally a mental process, but understanding...