Sunken Metaphor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun19_Post.mp4 Once there was a guy on a ship. His first time on a ship. And he was on the deck, carefully walking around. He wasn’t a big fan of the ocean, but so far he was having a pretty good time. Then he heard some thunder off in […]
The Motorboat Mind Trap
Metaphors Are Descriptions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27_Post.mp4 There’s a common metaphor about the relationship between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. And like many metaphors, it sort of sounds good, but it’s not very helpful. Metaphors, are by their nature, less complex than the thing they are describing. And metaphors ARE descriptions. Not […]
Angry Gorilla Equations
Studying Studying There was this professor of education who unexpectedly got a grant to study various memory techniques. They made a decimal point error, so he got ten times as much money as he was expecting. So he decided to go all out and research as my potential study techniques as possible. […]
Limits Of Free Will
Impossible Physics I was watching a very interesting set of videos the other night called “Impossible Physics.” They were using fiction and fictional science as a starting point to understand why those fictional science ideas would be impossible according to the real laws of physics. They were doing this to try to make movies […]