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Daryl Bambic

A Senior Moment: Wisdom of the Aged? - Wisdom Research | The University of Chicago - 0 views

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senior wisdom brain

shared by Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • they agree that our brains have two complementary operating systems.
  • Automatic or Instinctual Brain
  • decision making
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  • handles most of our emotions and “no brainer” decisions.
  • eflective or Analytical Brain, is a more aware thought process that requires effort. It is the purposeful, attentive check to the impulses of System
  • ery egocentric view
  • First, it was designed to protect us from danger and it frequently overreacts without thinking with unnecessary fear or anxiety.
  • reates stories to explain informatio
  • e automatic pilot brain does a good job of steering the ship of self.
  • umps to conclusions
  • strong attachments to money, material objects, and people that it is reluctant to let go of.
  • It takes the interaction of both System 1 and System 2 to achieve wisdom. It is necessary for people to train themselves to recognize when System 1 is overreacting, jumping to conclusions, or giving in to selfish impulses, and to call upon System 2
  • “Why?”
  • owered dopamine levels might give us time to stop and think.
  • ast experience of similar patterns
  • willing to educate ourselves as new information becomes available
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 13
     
    Two important ideas here: 1- the senior brain has less dopamine therefore less emotionally charged thinking and 2- it has more experience with pattern recognition and therefore can make better estimations and predictions.
mira ahmad

Why teens are prone to drug addiction - The Times of India - 2 views

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Psychology

shared by mira ahmad on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • why adolescents are more vulnerable to drug addiction, behavioural disorders, and other psychological ills.
  • adolescent brains react to rewards with far greater excitement than adult brains.
  • a greater degree of disorganization in adolescent brains.
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  • At the time of reward, nearly one-third of adolescent neurons became excited (shown in red) though the level of inhibition (in blue) changed marginally. Adult neurons registered much higher inhibitory activity and less excitation.
  • The extreme difference in brain activity provides a possible physiological explanation as to why teenagers are more prone than adults to rash behaviour, addiction, and mental diseases
  • The type of erratic activity in the cortex that she and Sturman observed could aggravate these conditions at a time when the maturing brain is vulnerable.
  • "This could intensify the effect of reward on decision making and answer several questions regarding adolescent behaviour,
Daryl Bambic

Conversation: Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' ... - 0 views

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the_shallows nicholas carr internet brains

shared by Daryl Bambic on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Daryl Bambic on 22 Jan 12
     
    Use this video interview to ask the questions and uncover assumptions about intelligence.
Megan Levine

America and the 'Fun' Generation - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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fun hedonism philosophy pft

shared by Megan Levine on 30 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • And now a count can declare the victors: “achievement” and “fun.”
  • term “excellence”
  • dropped out of favor, also elevenfold. As “fun” gained influence, mentions of “pleasure” fell by a factor of four.
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  • In the history of language, words rise and fall. We make and remake them; they make and remake us.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Apr 14
       
      Language is the philosopher's primary tool.  What do you think that the rising influence of 'fun' means for how we think about pleasure?
    • Natasha Campbell
      Natasha Campbell on 03 Apr 14
       
      I think that overtime, we become influenced by certain attributes, or things throughout the day which makes us perceive certain things as entertaining... With new technology, and the way our world changes, we could view different things as pleasure in contrast of what people thought of as appealing way back when.
  • turning in American culture, and one that has influenced the world. It is a turning away from an arguably aristocratic idea of the intrinsic worth of things: from pleasure, with its sense of an internal condition of mind, to fun, so closely affiliated with outward activities; from excellence, an inner trait whose attainment is its own reward, to achievement, which comes through slogging and recognition.
  • Merriam-Webster defines “pleasure” as “a state of gratification
  • fun is “what provides amusement or enjoyment;
  • excellence” as “the quality of being excellent,” which in turn means “very good of its kind: eminently good.” “Achievement,” meanwhile, is “a result gained by effort.”
  • “Pleasure” carries a hint of the sublime; it speaks of a state of mind that comes organically, that need not be artificially induced.
  • un,” though almost synonymous with “pleasure” for contemporary speakers, often involves artificial inducement
  • If “pleasure” comes from being and from talking through ideas, “fun” comes from doing and, often, switching off the brain.
  • Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.”
  • “Excellence” evokes Aristotle with its overtones of virtue. Anyone can achieve
  • but how many can truly be excellent?
  • “Achievement” is a word more likely to come from American leaders today, and, like “fun,” it is outward in nature. It comes in doing specific things. It is more about checking boxes than fulfilling inner potentialities.
  • The achievement culture permeates life today
  • n American culture of instantaneous celebrity teaches young people that fame is an end in itself rather than an incidental symptom of excellence in craft.
  • But with that change has come another: what would seem to be a growing intolerance for merely being, and an anguished insistence on doing, doing, doing.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 30 Mar 14
       
      What are the differences between pleasure and achievement according to the author?   Do you agree with him?
    • Natasha Campbell
      Natasha Campbell on 03 Apr 14
       
      Achievement is simply something we check off on our to-do list. It's not something we take great value in. As in pleasure, it's something that we treasure because it's something we don't get too often, because we're too busy being blinded by the 'fun' aspects of life. I agree with the author because I believe that many people today believe that they find pleasure in doing absolutely nothing, and to shut off their brains completely. I believe that discovering new things and letting your mind wander just enough is pleasurable. 
    • Megan Levine
      Megan Levine on 03 Apr 14
       
      Today, pleasure is something that is very rare to find, since it is overshadowed by "fun". However, achievement is simply something that can be checked off a list, and is very easy to accomplish. Anyone can achieve something; they just may have a harder time being excellent at something. We take great value in pleasure, but not in achievements. I agree with the author because I believe that our generation is so caught up in technology, and entertainment, that we sometimes forget to seek for pleasure in our lives. I also agree that shutting off our brains does not give us pleasure; it just shuts away all the problems that will resurface. It's okay to have fun, but finding pleasure is something that is much more valuable, in my opinion. 
Daryl Bambic

The Science of Older and Wiser - Defining Wisdom | A Project of the University of Chica... - 0 views

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wisdom insight older

shared by Daryl Bambic on 27 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • hat if you define wisdom as maintaining positive well-being and kindness in the face of challenges, it is one of the most important qualities one can possess to age successfully — and to face physical decline and death.
  • Vivian Clayton, a geriatric neuropsychologist in Orinda, Calif
  • she found that most people described as wise were decision makers.
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  • name the characteristics of a wise person
  • hree key components: cognition, reflection and compassion.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 27 Mar 14
       
      Cognition is the process of acquiring knowledge through thought and the senses.  Speed of cognition is only one aspect of this. 
  • Unfortunately, research shows that cognitive functioning slows as people age. But speed isn’t everything
  • quality of the information in the older brain is more nuanced
  • ore information people have in their brains, the more they can detect familiar patterns.
  • cognitive templates
  • pattern recognition,
  • the reflective dimension)
  • he compassionate dimension
  • Wisdom, she has found, is the ace in the hole that can help even severely impaired people find meaning, contentment and acceptance in later life.
  • more active than passive about dealing with hardship.
  • better coping skills
  • An impediment to wisdom is thinking, “I can’t stand who I am now because I’m not who I used to be,”
  • t’s an embracing acceptance,
  • accept reality as it is, with equanimity
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 27 Mar 14
       
      Equanimity: means being calm and emotionally stable, especially under stress. You might say, "going with the flow".
  • f things are really bad, it’s good to be wise,” she said.
  • an expert knowledge system concerning the fundamental pragmatics of life.
  • general wisdom
  • personal wisdom
  • five elements
  • elf-insight
  • personal growth
  • elf-awareness in terms of your historical era
  • priorities and values, including your own, are not absolute
  • awareness of life’s ambiguities.
  • oping strategy
  • better to be positive about life when you are older, she said,
  • a wise person would fully acknowledge mistakes and losses, and still try to improve.
  • involves recognizing the negative both within and outside
  • stress kindness
  • eduction in self-centeredness,
  • multiple perspectives,
  • people who rank high in neuroticism are unlikely to be wise,
  • amorphous trait
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 27 Mar 14
       
      Amorphous: hard to define, without a clear shape
  • If you are wise, she said, “You’re not only regulating your emotional state, you’re also attending to another person’s emotional state.
  • hat you can contribute
  • generativity,
  • Generativity means giving back without needing anything in return,
  • simplifying one’s life is also a sign of wisdom
  • Continuing education can be an important way to cultivate wisdom in the later years
Melissa Mazzanti

America and the 'Fun' Generation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Melissa Mazzanti on 02 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • In the history of language, words rise and fall. We make and remake them; they make and remake us.
    • Melissa Mazzanti
      Melissa Mazzanti on 02 Apr 14
       
      How do words catch on?
  • turning away from an arguably aristocratic idea of the intrinsic worth of things: from pleasure, with its sense of an internal condition of mind, to fun, so closely affiliated with outward activities; from excellence, an inner trait whose attainment is its own reward, to achievement, which comes through slogging and recognition.
  • “Pleasure” carries a hint of the sublime; it speaks of a state of mind that comes organically, that need not be artificially induced.
    • Melissa Mazzanti
      Melissa Mazzanti on 02 Apr 14
       
      Reminds me of Epicureanism a little bit
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  • If “pleasure” comes from being and from talking through ideas, “fun” comes from doing and, often, switching off the brain.
  • “Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.”
  • It comes in doing specific things. It is more about checking boxes than fulfilling inner potentialities.
    • Melissa Mazzanti
      Melissa Mazzanti on 02 Apr 14
       
      What achievement is considered by many people today.
Daryl Bambic

Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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descartes dualism

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  • what is the relationship between mental properties and physical properties?
  • consciousness
  • Materialist views say that, despite appearances to the contrary, mental states are just physical states.
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  • Behaviourism
  • unctionalism,
  • mind-brain identity theory
  • omputational theory of mind
  • nature of mind and consciousness
  • ndirectly modify behaviour
  • ealist views say that physical states are really mental.
  • empirical
  • product of our collective experience
  • Dualist views
  • the mental and the physical are both real and neither can be assimilated to the other.
  • ato's Phae
  • rue substances are not physical bodies, which are ephemeral, but the eternal Forms
  • bodies are imperfect copies
  • Plato's dualism is not, therefore, simply a doctrine in the philosophy of mind, but an integral part of his whole metaphysics.
  • Aristotle did not believe in Platonic Forms, existing independently of their instances. Aristotelian forms (the capital ‘F’ has disappeared with their standing as autonomous entities) are the natures and properties of things and exist embodied in those things.
  • Aristotle t
  • particular soul exists as the organizing principle in a particular parcel of matter.
  • Descartes
  • mechanist about the properties of matter.
  • The main uncertainty that faced Descartes
  • but how two things so different as thought and extension could interact at all.
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