The Physical Impossibility of Art on the Head of Someone Hungry

What are the hidden assumptions (and causal models) surrounding how we think about human potential, and how best to develop it?

I'm discussing “What if we could rebuild education from scratch?”. Today, Nov 22 at 9:00pm PST on Follow @Clubhouse. Join us! joinclubhouse.com/event/Km2ze1m0

How is society shaped by education as it currently exists? Might a rebuilt education lead to a different society?

What if we could rebuild education from scratch? Join us on clubhouse and let’s think about this together. Today, Dec 6 at 9:00pm PST on @joinclubhouse. joinclubhouse.com/event/4mZ0krxO

How does the current education system shape society? If we want a different society, how might a different approach to education contribute?

I'm discussing “Facing up to humanity’s challenges: are we making progress?”. Today, Dec 11 at 7:30pm PST on @joinclubhouse. Join us! joinclubhouse.com/event/JM8Bz7Pg pop

Consider humanity's challenges: climate change, inequality, political polarization, geopolitical conflict, failures in education, ... Are we making progress? If not, what do we need to do differently?

"You have a situation now where there are many more elites fighting for the same position, and some portion of them will convert to counter-elites" - Peter Turchin

Feynman’s 1974 Caltech commencement address, titled “Cargo Cult Science” was on “learning how to not fool yourself.” calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult…

Born 181 years ago today: Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, the first person to call himself a Psychologist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_W…

Many scientific disciplines deepen our understanding of the mind: neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, economics ...

Explanatory frameworks are non-rival goods: the validity of one explanation doesn't automatically invalidate others...

RT Steven Pinker: The late John Hollander dedicated an ingenious poem to Noam Chomsky - bit.ly/15b7Vh0

"Human brain is a cpu processing 11million bits per sec of data to a mere 50 BPS of decisions" #emtechsingapore

A step closer to inception? Disrupting posterior cingulate cortex induces dream state sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We had a great Papers We Love (@[email protected]) SG session today with Tim Oxley (new: @timkevinoxley) and Shaun Martin talking about some great papers.

“Dr. Shruthi: Listening to Shaun Martin 's talk reminds me of CS1102C . Only he's a better lecturer. #binarytrees” - thanks Shruthi!

Amazing talk about "cognitive unconscious" by Shaun Martin in HackerspaceSG, thanks so much! facebook.com/events/1599854…

Reinventing Education with Cognitive Science: this Thursday 18 Aug in Singapore ti.to/acs/reinventin…