METACOGNITION

The human brain can adapt to new ways of learning that can increase our resiliency to the dynamic world.

Can we teach ourselves to learn?

THE FOX & THE HEDGEHOG

In The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isiah Berlin plays upon Archilochus’s statement “a fox knows many

things, but a hedgehog knows

one big thing”...READ MORE

MORAL FOUNDATIONS

We share universal human

values in differing degrees,

which serve as a source of cross-cultural cooperation, but also of conflict...READ MORE

LEARNING BY DOING

Dewey believed people learn from and through...READ MORE

EXPANDED MIND

Besides our minds, we think with our bodies, technologies, environments, and social surroundings...READ MORE

A THOUSAND BRAINS

We understand the world through narrative reference frames that predict what we apprehend...READ MORE

CONSTRUCTED EMOTIONS

Emotions are neither universal nor automatic: they are constructed through cultural conditioning

and serve as the basis of

conscious reasoning...READ MORE

THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY

According to psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist, there are two

fundamental modes of making

our world...READ MORE

“We become, neurologically, what we think.” - Nicholas G. Carr

“It takes more than one human brain to create a human mind.”

- Lisa Feldman Barrett

“The choice we face as we think about the future is, should we continue to be driven by our biological past or choose instead to embrace our newly emerged intelligence?” - Jeff Hawkins

Master and Thousand

Emotions and Mind

Doing, Foundtions and Hedgehog