NP49 Observation

Daniel J. Simons is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois where he heads the Visual Cognition Laboratory. […]

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It’s rarely a good idea to take advice from a philosopher. (And yes, I’m a philosopher offering you that advice.) […]

“To be able to respond to anger without bitterness, to respond to fear without retreat, to meet joy without arrogance […]

When we ask people how they are, we are, in essence, asking them about their mood because moods are how […]

Emotions can hijack our minds. They prepare us for action, and they neighbour our perception. But they also reveal what […]

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“A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He […]

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the […]

“All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connected as it were by some […]

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There is a famous paradox, the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. Imagine […]