Results for “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’ Really True”

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rewarding experiences. Some actions have benign or even beneficial consequences for the welfare of others, while others have malignant and costly consequences. Exquisite studies pioneered by the American cognitive neuroscientist Kent Berridge have uncovered the core elements of...

modern computer design. “Language,” Boole wrote, “is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought.”187 Hillis has a magnetic intellectual charisma, as you might have guessed by now. An afternoon with him resembles nothing so much as a ling...

…r. In part, that has to do with compartmentalization of Hezbollah's covert activities. It is also, however, a result of the group's multiple identities -- Lebanese, pan-Shiite, pro- Iranian -- and the group's multiple and sometimes competing goals tied to these different identiti...

By the sheer power of numbers without the necessity of stunts, the Occupiers have broadened public awareness about the economic injustice perpetuated by corporations without compassion conspiring with government corruption that has resulted in immeasurable suffering. The Yippies...

…s for a government official and his wife that consisted primarily of touring activities via a chauffeur-driven vehicle the company’s facilities, in reality, no training occurred on many of these trips and the company had no facilities at those locations. Approximately $670,000 o...

of possible mouse travels is occupied. All the action is centered on a small set of points. When such a minimal entropy person is injured and feeling helpless, their stuckness can grow bizarre. Ruminative fixation in self-critical and persecutory ideas extend into poisoned food a...

…y in such data-intensive sciences as sociology and epidemiology, for which causal models have become a second language. These disciplines view their linguistic transformation as the Causal Revolution. As Harvard social scientist Gary King puts it, “More has been learned about cau...

distorting reality in the service of feeding a desire for personal gain. Denial

Trumpism has opened the way for facing reality

entrance into a reality of an entirely other place and

the rest of the knowledge of this reality grows in the form of

282 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS on-camera star of a twenty-hour-long reality show, edited first into a video and then a full-length documentary, transformed him in the public’s mind into a hero. It would be a mistake to assume that the central role he gave himself was simply...

sought kinds of breakthroughs or radically new ways of approaching reality and the

why not make them permanent? This gets to a basic reality: