• [[../Notes/machine learning network learns better when sleeping]]
• [[The Stone age is named so not because stone tools were the most advanced but the best preserved]]
• [[angels do not look like that]]
• [[b.The Emotional Life of Your Brain/the conclusion reached by almost every scientific study applies only on average]]

Fallacies, Cognitive Biases, Perception

• [[Yellow light used to be white]]
• [[We take mediocre to mean sth negative - but the median, by definition, is bettter than half of the population]]
• [[../Notes/q.Sometimes you come up with false positives on psychedelics]]

Cosmology, Philosophy, Reality

• [[q.there is no fundamental difference etween elementary particles and black holes]]
• [[time might turn out to be an emergent phenomena and not fundamental]]
• [[how the heck can particles be force-carriers]]

The Human Condition

• [[you cannot change your past but your present which becomes your past]]
• [[Even hard work can be fun if it is aligned with our intrinsic goals and we feel in control]]
• [[q.Infants are born with an unfinished brain in a world that is created for them]]
• [[q.We are not monkeys, we are side effects of the regulation needs of monkeys – Joscha Bach]]
• [[The brain does not classify, it does concept construction]]
• [[Your arm moves because you predict it will, and your motor system seeks to minimize prediction error]]

Mind

• [[moving in 3d and navigating mathematical theorems use the same cognitive machinery]]
• [[Back to Work - Your brain is not for thinking]]
• [[Where did theory of mind come from - it is a cultural construct]]

Physiology

• [[1 000mcg of fish oil works as well as an SSRI antidepressant]]
• [[Your body wakes you up right before bedtime]]
• [[cortisol is not a stress hormone]]
• [[The major effect of testosterone is to make effort feel good]]
• [[there is no lizard brain]]

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