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Introducing the Mother-Son Debates

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, behavior, biology, brain, journalism, language, tagged , , , , , , on January 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Happy 2010.  After several lengthy discussions over the holidays with my Mom I thought it might be interesting to generate an online Mother/Son debate to discuss the Big Issues in life.  Note: This post is the first time my mom will have heard of this idea but I suspect she’ll embrace this and start producing [...]

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10 Personal Pressing Questions

Posted in philosophy, religion, research, speculation, tagged , , , , on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s my top 10 most pressing questions in life. Can you be satisfied and functional AND integrate the idea that there is no universal meaning? Is ignorance bliss? How long will it take for us to give up on free will?  will we ever do that? Will technology take over for athletic skill in all sports? [...]

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Chaos begets Chaos? aka Behavior Selection by Consequences

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, religion, research, science, social science, tagged , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In yet another confounding of the same sitatuion we see played out over and over in thousands of published studies, Seed gives us a report on how moral decisions are contextual. “No, the results did not surprise us,” says Lindenberg. “What surprised us was the size of the effect.” This is not unlike the findings [...]

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Madoff-ed? Or learning truth is contextual?

Posted in behavior, biology, business strategy, philosophy, speculation, tagged , , , on January 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Alexandra Penney is featured on CNN today. Public reaction to her reaction to having her “life savings” wiped by the Madoff situation surprised her. This is a great example of how the rules we all play by are specific to our own contexts/situations in life. In reading the CNN piece and Penney’s writing you might [...]

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The Reader Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Movie Reviews, truth, tagged , , , , , , on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Though the book, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, is over a decade old it is back on the front table and topshelves again because of the movie version. In short: this is a fantastic book. You should READ it before seeing the movie. Writing a review of the book poses a challenge because of how [...]

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Santa, Magical Thinking, Education trump Consequences

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, decision theory, economics, finance, government, human rights, media, politics, religion, science, social science, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

So, in a moment only Tony Robbins could love, I was doing my early morning stretches when my wife read the following: Few things could be more dangerous than letting your children fall into the trap of believing what they do doesn’t matter. Teach them that there are consequences of their actions. Teach them that [...]

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My Friday Search for Absolute Truth and Tarski’s Undefinability Theorem

Posted in determinism, philosophy, religion, search, tagged , , , on November 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

are there any absolute truths? if “no”, then is that an absolute truth? Refer to Tarski’s Undefinability Theorem. I enjoyed this guys write up on some details of the theorem. or maybe you want to play with coherence theory? or maybe you should just see how others arbitrage the search for truth in pursuit of [...]

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Why kids lie… The TRUTH can finally be told…

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Like a flu virus in a preschool lunch room, the question comes up every 6 months or so as to “Why do children lie?” and “What does it mean?” and “What do you do about it?” The latest incarnation was on CNN/health in a Parenting.com article. http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/11/12/why.kids.lie/index.html There is huge divergence out there on the [...]

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Statements

Posted in analysis of behavior, philosophy, research, science, search, social science, time, tagged , , , on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The universe, the world, biology, human behavior is determined and unpredictable. Business models will always be inaccurate as business is unpredictable and almost intractably so. Software will always ship with bugs.  No amount of qa can squash them all. Your best approach to product development is to try things and try a lot of things [...]

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A surreal version of another surreal testimony of another surreal testimony

Posted in humor, mason jar, traffic, tagged , , , , on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Web Coder’s Congressional Testimony Hired Code Slinger: You want answers? Congressman: I think I’m entitled to them. Hired Code Slinger: You want answers? Congressman: I want the truth! Hired Code Slinger: You can’t handle the truth!  Son, we live in a world that has web sites. And those web sites have products and services that [...]

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