OPPOSITES

The same label and have opposite meanings to different people at different times...READ MORE

CERTAINTY vs. UNCERTAINTY

Fervency and conviction are not inherently measures of truth:

certainty can instead indicate

an unwillingness to think further

“Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.”

- Abhijit Naskar

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” - Immanuel Kant

NARRATIVE

We make sense of the complex world through narratives, building models which affirm our worldviews.

How were our national metanarratives constructed? How do these narratives both embolden and limit our lives?

CONSTRUCTION

ADJUDICATED LABELS

We use labels as cognitive shortcuts, often leading to forgone

conclusions and premature

certainty...READ MORE

Certaint, Opposites, Adjudicated Labels

CULTURES OF FEAR

Americans have been living in a climate of fear since at least

the beginning of the Cold

War...READ MORE

WELTANSCHAUUNG

Weltanschauung is a German

concept which refers to a

cultural “wide worldview” of a group of people...READ MORE

PERCEPTRONS

In machine learning, perceptrons are algorithms that supervise the learning of binary classifiers...READ MORE

PERCEPTION BIASES

Cognitive biases are our brains’ tendencies to process information according to built-in patterns or prejudices rather than according

to reality or rational thinking...READ MORE

“If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.” - Penn Jillette

Perceptrons, PercetionBiases

Fear, Wetan