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"Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals." - Aaron T. Beck (via Twitter twitter.com/kimfishercbt/status/716664407372271616)
Dr Zarinah Agnew, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, discusses what bit does what using her 'brain-hat' at Bright Club, January 2011.
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Skepticism, also spelled scepticism in British English, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma.[1] For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the person doubts that these claims are accurate. In such cases, skeptics normally recommend not disbelief but suspension of belief, i.e. maintaining a neutral attitude that neither affirms nor denies the claim. This attitude is often motivated by the impression that the available evidence is insufficient to support the claim. Formally, skepticism is a topic of interest in philosophy, particularly epistemology.
More informally, skepticism as an expression of questioning or doubt can be applied to any topic, such as politics, religion, or pseudoscience. It is often applied within restricted domains, such as morality (moral skepticism), atheism (skepticism about the existence of God), or the supernatural.[2] Some theorists distinguish "good" or moderate skepticism, which seeks strong evidence before accepting a position, from "bad" or radical skepticism, which wants to suspend judgment indefinitely.[3][4]
Philosophical skepticism is one important form of skepticism. It rejects knowledge claims that seem certain from the perspective of common sense. Radical forms of philosophical skepticism deny that "knowledge or rational belief is possible" and urge us to suspend judgment on many or all controversial matters. More moderate forms claim only that nothing can be known with certainty, or that we can know little or nothing about nonempirical matters, such as whether God exists, whether human beings have free will, or whether there is an afterlife. In ancient philosophy, skepticism was understood as a way of life associated with inner peace.[5]
Skepticism has been responsible for many important developments in science and philosophy. It has also inspired several contemporary social movements. Religious skepticism advocates for doubt concerning basic religious principles, such as immortality, providence, and revelation.[6] Scientific skepticism advocates for testing beliefs for reliability, by subjecting them to systematic investigation using the scientific method, to discover empirical evidence for them.
Definition and semantic field
Skepticism, also spelled scepticism (from the Greek σκέπτομαι skeptomai, to search, to think about or look for), refers to a doubting attitude toward knowledge claims.[2][7] So if a person is skeptical of their government's claims about an ongoing war then the person has doubts that these claims are true. Or being skeptical that one's favorite hockey team will win the championship means that one is uncertain about the strength of their performance.[2] Skepticism about a claim implies that one does not believe the claim to be true. But it does not automatically follow that one should believe that the claim is false either. Instead, skeptics usually recommend a neutral attitude: beliefs about this matter should be suspended. In this regard, skepticism about a claim can be defined as the thesis that "the only justified attitude with respect to [this claim] is suspension of judgment".[8] It is often motivated by the impression that one cannot be certain about it. This is especially relevant when there is significant expert disagreement.[9] Skepticism is usually restricted to a claim or a field of inquiry. So religious and moral skeptics have a doubtful attitude about religious and moral doctrines. But some forms of philosophical skepticism, are wider in that they reject any form of knowledge.[9]
Some definitions, often inspired by ancient philosophy, see skepticism not just as an attitude but as a way of life. This is based on the idea that maintaining the skeptical attitude of doubt toward most concerns in life is superior to living in dogmatic certainty, for example because such a skeptic has more happiness and peace of mind or because it is morally better.[2][10] In contemporary philosophy, on the other hand, skepticism is often understood neither as an attitude nor as a way of life but as a thesis: the thesis that knowledge does not exist.[2]
Skepticism is related to various terms. It is sometimes equated with agnosticism and relativism.[4][11][12] However, there are slight differences in meaning. Agnosticism is often understood more narrowly as skepticism about religious questions, in particular, about the Christian doctrine.[11] Relativism does not deny the existence of knowledge or truth but holds that they are relative to a person and differ from person to person, for example, because they follow different cognitive norms.[13] The opposite of skepticism is dogmatism, which implies an attitude of certainty in the form of an unquestioning belief.[14] A similar contrast is often drawn in relation to blind faith and credulity.[3]
Types
Various types of skepticism have been discussed in the academic literature. Skepticism is usually restricted to knowledge claims on one particular subject, which is why its different forms can be distinguished based on the subject.[2][7][9] For example, religious skeptics distrust religious doctrines and moral skeptics raise doubts about accepting various moral requirements and customs. Skepticism can also be applied to knowledge in general. However, this attitude is usually only found in some forms of philosophical skepticism.[2][7] A closely related classification distinguishes based on the source of knowledge, such as skepticism about perception, memory, or intuition.[15] A further distinction is based on the degree of the skeptical attitude. The strongest forms assert that there is no knowledge at all or that knowledge is impossible. Weaker forms merely state that one can never be absolutely certain.[2]
Some theorists distinguish between a good or healthy form of moderate skepticism in contrast to a bad or unhealthy form of radical skepticism. On this view, the "good" skeptic is a critically-minded person who seeks strong evidence before accepting a position. The "bad" skeptic, on the other hand, wants to "suspend judgment indefinitely... even in the face of demonstrable truth".[3][4] Another categorization focuses on the motivation for the skeptical attitude. Some skeptics have ideological motives: they want to replace inferior beliefs with better ones. Others have a more practical outlook in that they see problematic beliefs as the cause of harmful customs they wish to stop. Some skeptics have very particular goals in mind, such as bringing down a certain institution associated with the spread of claims they reject.[2][7]
Philosophical skepticism is a prominent form of skepticism and can be contrasted with non-philosophical or ordinary skepticism. Ordinary skepticism involves a doubting attitude toward knowledge claims that are rejected by many.[8] Almost everyone shows some form of ordinary skepticism, for example, by doubting the knowledge claims made by flat earthers or astrologers.[2][7] Philosophical skepticism, on the other hand, is a much more radical and rare position. It includes the rejection of knowledge claims that seem certain from the perspective of common sense. Some forms of it even deny that one knows that "I have two hands" or that "the sun will come out tomorrow".[8][16] It is taken seriously in philosophy nonetheless because it has proven very hard to conclusively refute philosophical skepticism.[2][8]
In various fields
Skepticism has been responsible for important developments in various fields, such as science, medicine, and philosophy. In science, the skeptical attitude toward traditional opinions was a key factor in the development of the scientific method. It emphasizes the need to scrutinize knowledge claims by testing them through experimentation and precise measurement.[14][17] In the field of medicine, skepticism has helped establish more advanced forms of treatment by putting into doubt traditional forms that were based on intuitive appeal rather than empirical evidence.[3][14] In the history of philosophy, skepticism has often played a productive role not just for skeptics but also for non-skeptical philosophers.[2][7][18] This is due to its critical attitude that challenges the epistemological foundations of philosophical theories. This can help to keep speculation in check and may provoke creative responses, transforming the theory in question in order to overcome the problems posed by skepticism.[2][7] According to Richard H. Popkin, "the history of philosophy can be seen, in part, as a struggle with skepticism". This struggle has led many contemporary philosophers to abandon the quest for absolutely certain or indubitable first principles of philosophy, which was still prevalent in many earlier periods.[7] Skepticism has been an important topic throughout the history of philosophy and is still widely discussed today.[2]
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Main article: Philosophical skepticism
As a philosophical school or movement, skepticism arose both in ancient Greece and India. In India the Ajñana school of philosophy espoused skepticism. It was a major early rival of Buddhism and Jainism, and possibly a major influence on Buddhism. Two of the foremost disciples of the Buddha, Sariputta and Moggallāna, were initially students of the Ajñana philosopher Sanjaya Belatthiputta. A strong element of skepticism is found in Early Buddhism, most particularly in the Aṭṭhakavagga sutra. However the total effect these philosophies had on each other is difficult to discern. Since skepticism is a philosophical attitude and a style of philosophizing rather than a position, the Ajñanins may have influenced other skeptical thinkers of India such as Nagarjuna, Jayarāśi Bhaṭṭa, and Shriharsha.[19][full citation needed]
In Greece, philosophers as early as Xenophanes (c. 570–c. 475 BCE) expressed skeptical views, as did Democritus[20] and a number of Sophists. Gorgias, for example, reputedly argued that nothing exists, that even if there were something we could not know it, and that even if we could know it we could not communicate it.[21] The Heraclitean philosopher Cratylus refused to discuss anything and would merely wriggle his finger, claiming that communication is impossible since meanings are constantly changing.[22]: 449 Socrates also had skeptical tendencies, claiming to know nothing worthwhile.[23]
Pyrrho of Elis was the founder of the school of skepticism known as Pyrrhonism.
There were two major schools of skepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The first was Pyrrhonism, founded by Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360–270 BCE). The second was Academic Skepticism, so-called because its two leading defenders, Arcesilaus (c. 315–240 BCE) who initiated the philosophy, and Carneades (c. 217–128 BCE), the philosophy's most famous proponent, were heads of Plato's Academy. Pyrrhonism's aims are psychological. It urges suspension of judgment (epoche) to achieve mental tranquility (ataraxia). The Academic Skeptics denied that knowledge is possible (acatalepsy). The Academic Skeptics claimed that some beliefs are more reasonable or probable than others, whereas Pyrrhonian skeptics argue that equally compelling arguments can be given for or against any disputed view.[22]: 450 Nearly all the writings of the ancient skeptics are now lost. Most of what we know about ancient skepticism is from Sextus Empiricus, a Pyrrhonian skeptic who lived in the second or third century CE. His works contain a lucid summary of stock skeptical arguments.
Ancient skepticism faded out during the late Roman Empire, particularly after Augustine (354–430 CE) attacked the skeptics in his work Against the Academics (386 CE). There was little knowledge of, or interest in, ancient skepticism in Christian Europe during the Middle Ages. Interest revived during the Renaissance and Reformation, particularly after the complete writings of Sextus Empiricus were translated into Latin in 1569 and after Martin Luther's skepticism of holy orders.[24] A number of Catholic writers, including Francisco Sanches (c. 1550–1623), Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), and Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) deployed ancient skeptical arguments to defend moderate forms of skepticism and to argue that faith, rather than reason, must be the primary guide to truth. Similar arguments were offered later (perhaps ironically) by the Protestant thinker Pierre Bayle in his influential Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697–1702).[25]: chaps. 1 & 2
The growing popularity of skeptical views created an intellectual crisis in seventeenth-century Europe. An influential response was offered by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596–1650). In his classic work, Meditations of First Philosophy (1641), Descartes sought to refute skepticism, but only after he had formulated the case for skepticism as powerfully as possible. Descartes argued that no matter what radical skeptical possibilities we imagine there are certain truths (e.g., that thinking is occurring, or that I exist) that are absolutely certain. Thus, the ancient skeptics were wrong to claim that knowledge is impossible. Descartes also attempted to refute skeptical doubts about the reliability of our senses, our memory, and other cognitive faculties. To do this, Descartes tried to prove that God exists and that God would not allow us to be systematically deceived about the nature of reality. Many contemporary philosophers question whether this second stage of Descartes's critique of skepticism is successful.[25]: 210
In the eighteenth century a new case for skepticism was offered by the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776). Hume was an empiricist, claiming that all genuine ideas can be traced back to original impressions of sensation or introspective consciousness. Hume argued that on empiricist grounds there are no sound reasons for belief in God, an enduring self or soul, an external world, causal necessity, objective morality, or inductive reasoning. In fact, he argued that "Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not Nature too strong for it."[22]: 456 As Hume saw it, the real basis of human belief is not reason, but custom or habit. We are hard-wired by nature to trust, say, our memories or inductive reasoning, and no skeptical arguments, however powerful, can dislodge those beliefs. In this way, Hume embraced what he called a "mitigated" skepticism, while rejecting an "excessive" Pyrrhonian skepticism that he saw as both impractical and psychologically impossible.
Hume's skepticism provoked a number of important responses. Hume's Scottish contemporary, Thomas Reid (1710–1796), challenged Hume's strict empiricism and argued that it is rational to accept "common-sense" beliefs such as the basic reliability of our senses, our reason, our memories, and inductive reasoning, even though none of these things can be proved. In Reid's view, such common-sense beliefs are foundational and require no proof in order to be rationally justified.[22]: 456 Not long after Hume's death, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued that human empirical experience has possibility conditions which could not have been realized unless Hume's skeptical conclusions about causal synthetic a priori judgements were false.
Today, skepticism continues to be a topic of lively debate among philosophers.[2] British philosopher Julian Baggini posits that reason is perceived as "an enemy of mystery and ambiguity," but, if used properly, can be an effective tool for solving many larger societal issues.[26]
Religion
Main article: Religious skepticism
Religious skepticism generally refers to doubting particular religious beliefs or claims. For example, a religious skeptic might believe that Jesus existed (see historicity of Jesus) while questioning claims that he was the messiah or performed miracles. Historically, religious skepticism can be traced back to Xenophanes, who doubted many religious claims of his time, although he recognized that "God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind." He maintained that there was one greatest God. God is one eternal being, spherical in form, comprehending all things within himself, is the absolute mind and thought, therefore is intelligent, and moves all things, but bears no resemblance to human nature either in body or mind."[27]
Religious skepticism is not the same as atheism or agnosticism, though these often do involve skeptical attitudes toward religion and philosophical theology (for example, towards divine omnipotence). Religious people are generally skeptical about claims of other religions, at least when the two denominations conflict concerning some belief. Additionally, they may also be skeptical of the claims made by atheists.
The historian Will Durant writes that Plato was "as skeptical of atheism as of any other dogma". The Baháʼí Faith encourages skepticism that is mainly centered around self-investigation of truth.[28]
In al-Ma'arri's later years he chose to stop consuming meat and all other animal products (i.e., he became a practicing vegan). He wrote:[26]
Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up, and do not
desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals,
Or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught for
their young, not for noble ladies.
And do not grieve the unsuspecting birds by taking their eggs;
for injustice is the worst of crimes.
And spare the honey which the bees get industriously
from the flowers of fragrant plants;
For they did not store it that it might belong to others, nor did
they gather it for bounty and gifts.
I washed my hands of all this; and wish that I had perceived
my way before my hair went gray![27]Although he was an advocate of social justice and action, Al-Ma'arrî believed that children should not be conceived, in order to spare future generations the pains of life. Moreover, very original compared to his background, he was an ascetic and vegetarian5 and defended vegetarianism and animals with sincerity, based on his interpretations of the Quran11 and his own reasoning. In November 2007, his work was banned from display at the International Book Fair of Algiers (SILA) by order of the Algerian Ministry of Religious Affairs and Waqfs.
In 2013, the statue that had been erected to him in Maaret el-Noomane, his birthplace, was thrown off its pedestal and decapitated by an armed jihadist group
A scientific or empirical skeptic is one who questions beliefs on the basis of scientific understanding and empirical evidence.
Scientific skepticism may discard beliefs pertaining to purported phenomena not subject to reliable observation and thus not systematic or empirically testable. Most scientists, being scientific skeptics, test the reliability of certain kinds of claims by subjecting them to systematic investigation via the scientific method.[29] As a result, a number of ostensibly scientific claims are considered to be "pseudoscience" if they are found to improperly apply or to ignore the fundamental aspects of the scientific method.
Auditing
Professional skepticism is an important concept in auditing. It requires an auditor to have a "questioning mind", to make a critical assessment of evidence, and to consider the sufficiency of the evidence.[30]
Cog, for the uninitiated, is the small bot that came with the original G1 Fortress Maximus. I don't know what role he filled (servant wench?) or whether or not Cog was cognitive - lets just say the entire Headmasters line was glossed over in the American show, and I honestly can't recall if Cog was ever mentioned in the Japanese Headmasters series.
Well, seeing how the Titans Return Fortress Maximus didn't get a Cog, I guess Hasbro decided it was a good time to backfill that particular sore spot by releasing Cog into the Seige lineup as it's own Deluxe sized figure.
Now, I was going to get this figure one way or another. I love the fact it goes well with the Fort Max figure, and I love the update that Cog received, like how Full Tilt received an update with the recent Trypticon. $29.99 price tag be damned.
However, my love for Cog isn't shared by I'd say roughly half the fandom. You see, Cog has a dark secret - not only does he transform into some random shamble of parts, but *GASP* he's a Partsformer.
Let me explain.
A Partsformer is a transforming toy that doesn't really transform, but rather relies to some degree on pieces that come off the main figure and then reconnecting somewhere. It doesn't bother me, personally. Some of my favorite figures have been Partsformers, for example God Magnus/Ultra Magnus from the Car Robots 2000/RiD line and the more recent Rodimus Prime from the Power of the Primes line. Some people, on the other hand, absolutely hate this fact and will refuse to buy a toy simply because of the nature of their conversion.
Now that we got that out of the way, let us continue.
Fancy box? Check. Glad we got that out of the way. For weapons, Cog comes with twin guns. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done.
The overall look of Cog is reminiscent of the original G1 design, from the predominantly silver and blue colour scheme, to the silhouette of the character. The original toy was technically the combination of two smaller vehicles, whereas this Cog I guess is really one vehicle. As with all other releases thus far, the quality of plastic and number of paint apps is a pleasant surprise.
I'm also pleasantly surprised with the amount of articulation they gave Cog (though honestly, anything less would cause me to riot on the streets for the $30 price tag), though that head articulation is pointless given the shoulder pads from Hell that Cog possess.
Now, the surprises with Cog don't end here. As mentioned in other blurbs, the gimmick of the Siege line is the attachment of various pieces to the 5mm ports on the Deluxe and up sized figures, known as the C.O.M.B.A.T. system.. some fancy acronym I'm not going to spend any time looking up.
Well, Cog is a Partsformer because he breaks up into various components for combination.
According to the manual, there are two "forms" these attachments can take - Defensive Loadout and Offensive Loadout. Defensive is the one where Hound is wearing platform shoes, where as Offensive is the one where Cog turns into the most ridiculous backpack of all time.
Cog is clearly designed for combination with Deluxe sized figures. While Megatron I'm sure has the necessary ports, I'm going to guess if one attached Cog to Megatron in Defensive mode, it would look like he was trying to walk around on Lego bricks.
So that about sums up my overview of Cog. I personally like it, but can understand it's not everyones cup of tea. I am quite happy with how well the Cog figure itself turned out, with the C.O.M.B.A.T. system being a quirky addition. But remember, I like ambiguous alt modes and parts forming.
Owning a Fort Max also makes this figure a no-brainer.
“How far can your plane go, 1,2,3,4?.. Shout it Loud!!!
Airplane paper flight at WFN Airport, was tested today.
The activity was great to enhance their motor skills and cognitive skills. These skills were put to work during the airplane paper flight.
Date trees, one of the symbols of UAE was planted today in their ‘World Wanderers’ class.
The day began with hopping on numbers, shapes and phonics called out to them. That was a review for what was done during the week.
The ‘Crazy Designers’ had buildings made out of card board papers with some primary colors on their the roof. The activity was to develop their creativity and to have an idea of Primary colors.
The day ended with kids coloring and tracing straight and side lines.
The Children enjoyed hooked pocket dance, matching phonics and popping balloons in search for numbers. That was to learn the number concepts.
Tracing and UAE soveinor craft was mind refreshing.
On the whole, the kids were busy focussing on their necessary skills and has a relaxed learning this week.
Happy Weekend to All…
So, the big news, my medical records were sent to Addenbrookes Cognitive Unit for review by my previous consultant in Canterbury and by my new GP in Beccles. I had a meeting with my new GP yesterday and it turns out that because my dementia is neither Alzheimers nor vascular type there is absolutely nothing that can be done. So I am to eat healthily, exercise and just enjoy myself, sobering thought but I am not going to argue with that advice.
Went to Norwich in the afternoon and purchased a whole lot of new cycling and running gear and I may even join a gym here in Beccles for the first time ever.
I've run all my life, my mum could never catch me no matter how naughty I had been, so new running shoes and between 5 and 6am I can be found running around Beccles Common watching the sunrise and listening to a few tunes......
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The current state of Holter technology uses smaller recorders (size, 70×95×20 mm; weight, ≈190 g) with flashcard technology to record and store data from 2 to 3 ECG leads attached to the patient's chest and collected continuously over 24 to 48 hours.
I complete a range of cognitive assessments with my patients. This photo shows an assessment I use to look at sequencing an activity.
Footprints
In Search of Future Fossils
David Farrier. 2020
Cyanotype and drawing for architectural glass.
Cognitive/Imaginative Mappings within The Drowned World, JG Ballard.
The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation
Michael Weinstock
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Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
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FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech 2019
July 15-17, 2019
Aspen, CO
FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech is our annual by-invitation-only summer retreat for leaders from FORTUNE 500 companies, the top emerging entrepreneurs of the tech world, and the most important investors who finance them. We will be headquartered at The St. Regis Hotel, with events taking place at a variety of locations in downtown Aspen.
Participants include Founders and CEOs Beth Ford of Land O’Lakes, Margo Georgiadis of Ancestry, Jeffrey Katzenberg of WndrCo, Ynon Kreiz of Mattel, Doug McMillon of Walmart, and Meg Whitman of Quibi, as well as David Baszucki, Chief Executive Officer, Roblox; Dorian Daley, EVP and General Counsel, Oracle; Karen Francis DeGolia, Lead Director, Telenav; Aicha Evans, CEO, Zoox; John Hanke, CEO, Niantic Inc; Pam Kostka, CEO, All Raise; Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President, Cloud and Cognitive Software, IBM; Katrina Lake, CEO, StichFix; Maria Lensing, Vice President, Healthcare Solutions; Vincent Letteri, Managing Director, Private Equity & TMT Growth, KKR; Othman Laraki, CEO, Color; Brandon Newell, Chair, Mobility Transformation Working Group, U.S. Marine Corps; Mark Mahaney, Managing Director, Internet, RBC Capital Markets; Tekedra Mawakana, Chief External Officer, Waymo; Sara Menker, CEO, GroIntelligence; Alex Norstrom, Chief Premium Business Officer, Spotify; Hester Peirce, Commissioner, SEC; David Richter, Chief Business Officer, Lime; Lior Ron, Co-founder, Otto, and Head of Freight, Uber; Ned Segal, CFO, Twitter; James Siminoff, Founder and Chief Inventor, Ring; Richard Socher, Chief Scientist, Salesforce; Krysta Svore, Head, Quantum Architectures and Computation Group, Microsoft; Hans Tung, Managing Partner, GGV Capital; and Dominic Williams, Founder and President, DFINITY.
For big companies, entrepreneurs, and investors alike, it’s essential to stay ahead of fast-breaking trends: becoming part of the Brainstorm Tech community can make the difference between finding a competitive edge or being disrupted into oblivion. Becoming part of the community by registering for the annual meeting gives executives access to a number of benefits that deliver value throughout the year. Benefits include additional Brainstorm events, small dinners and conference calls, access to a contact directory, membership services and more. Once you have completed your registration for 2019 Brainstorm Tech, member benefits are included at no additional cost.
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
“How far can your plane go, 1,2,3,4?.. Shout it Loud!!!
Airplane paper flight at WFN Airport, was tested today.
The activity was great to enhance their motor skills and cognitive skills. These skills were put to work during the airplane paper flight.
Date trees, one of the symbols of UAE was planted today in their ‘World Wanderers’ class.
The day began with hopping on numbers, shapes and phonics called out to them. That was a review for what was done during the week.
The ‘Crazy Designers’ had buildings made out of card board papers with some primary colors on their the roof. The activity was to develop their creativity and to have an idea of Primary colors.
The day ended with kids coloring and tracing straight and side lines.
The Children enjoyed hooked pocket dance, matching phonics and popping balloons in search for numbers. That was to learn the number concepts.
Tracing and UAE soveinor craft was mind refreshing.
On the whole, the kids were busy focussing on their necessary skills and has a relaxed learning this week.
Happy Weekend to All…
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Cognitive Network Solutions Ltd -
Founded in 1790, in a hired room by the Rev. James Scott, of Park Lane Chapel, Netherend Cradley. In 1805 a small Church was built, which has been used as a Schoolroom since the new Church was built in 1861.
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature?
Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
27 Novembre 2013
Campus Bovisa
In our work, more and more interaction design, digital design, urban design, mobility design and strategic design is converging into the design of services, i.e. a well-considered eco-systemic platform that surrounds the activity, the device or the interaction. But to design a service well, we need to go beyond the simple model of touchpoint design or customer journey design. We need to be able to design for behavior and often design for behavioral change. To do this, weto really understand and model behaviors and this means harking back to the psychological, cognitive and biological underpinnings of behavior. During his talk Mark will discuss how to transfer insights and practices from the humanities into design concepts.
to the sooe re-embodies the cognitive processes and creative voices of three agents into a tangible device: a deceased author, a deep learning neural net, and an ASMR performer. These agencies are materialized in the device, which transmits soft vocalizations of an AI-generated text: its vocalizations are intended to induce autonomous physiological sensations in the listener, revealing the body as linked to the technological-sonic assemblage and initiating an intimate encounter with machine learning processes.
Credit: vog.photo
The High Street in Lye on the A458.
Cognitive Network Solutions Ltd -
Founded in 1790, in a hired room by the Rev. James Scott, of Park Lane Chapel, Netherend Cradley. In 1805 a small Church was built, which has been used as a Schoolroom since the new Church was built in 1861.
How to educate a visual learner...
Visual learners do not hear you with their ears they see you and feel you. To get a Visual learner to understand what you are speaking to them about is going to be very frustrating and usually ending with the Visual learner storming off in a huff or they will be frustrated with you continuously, even accusing you of not listening to them. Visual learners use their eyes to observe you’re every detail and they feel your voice tones, pick up on your body language very fast and feel vibrations regardless if they come from physical, emotional, or spiritual sources.
Visual learns when very young learn to solve all problems with their eyes and feelings and become exceptionally skilled in these capacities but all Mary hell is let loose when they have to start to read and the eyes fail them over and over again. The little Visual learner tries even harder to solve learning the alphabet sounds with their highly accomplished visual skills but continue to fail.
By now the little Visual learner is being filled with fear every time reading is being requested by a parent or teacher. Even if a parent or a teacher has stated or has just felt the Visual learner has a problem they panic and either run away, fight back or just freeze over.
Around this time the parent or the teacher will be requesting to have the child tested for all sorts of learning difficulties. By now you will have a sad and very unhappy child who has lost confidence in themselves completely and will be exhibiting uncooperative behaviours.
The little Visual learner does not know they have to awaken their little left ear to solve these sound and reading problems so they are forced to guess and pretend all sorts of dramas to avoid having to go back and read ever again.
To help the Visual learner to be able to hear their sounds and begin to crack the techniques of reading you will have to explain to them in a gentle and loving voice that their eyes and feeling skills are brilliant for solving other life challenges but learning sounds and reading needs their left ear to be woken up. I use humour like “Your ears are asleep!” or “Your ears are on holiday somewhere, do you know where they are?”
As you sit and watch these children very closely you will see when they are trying to read by using their eyes or by using their ears and you will need to very kindly and lovingly point this out every time they make the change. It will help immensely to use a little humour during the first sessions as you do not want these little Visual learners feeling unhappy, or fearful of you or the processes.
As you slowly build the Visual learners confidence by teaching them Audio strategies which awaken their left ear then and only then can that child begin to develop the skill of left brain cognitive/analytical thinking.
four weeks down, forty-eight to go.
i'm suffering from cognitive dissonance right now, i think, where i'm holding two contradictory ideas in my mind: the idea that daniel doesn't love me is incompatible with the idea that he continues to be uncertain regarding his own mind & that, given that uncertainty, perhaps things can ultimately be worked out between us. or, to look at another example, there's the idea that i deserve better coupled with the idea that i still love someone who can be so careless with my feelings.
my best friend at work is planning to give his notice shortly, & we've been talking about my situation -- in purely hypothetical terms, of course, much as we talked about his recent break-up with his girlfriend. this boy is the heartthrob of the CTO -- even when i was an ugly duckling high school dork, i always seemed to befriend the romantically popular tall-dark-&-handsomes in a way that most of the other girls couldn't (although i suspect for different reasons now, as then it was just that my adoration wasn't a threat, while now i think it's that i'm not much of a girl & i get along better with boys & can talk to them pretty easily) -- & this boy has offered his opinion & advice, as boys do, & i told him a few things:
01. i don't get why this is happening, 02. but i understand that my getting it is really sort of irrelevant at this point, 03. i'm pretty much awesome despite my neuroses so i'm fully aware of what daniel's walking away from & how, egotistical or not, i know that there aren't many out there like me & he'll choke on regret in time the same as phil does, which kills me b/c i don't want regret, i want my happy fucking ending, 04. i fully believe that he doesn't know what he wants, regardless of how insane that makes me sound, 05. what i want now, more than anything, is to bury this so i don't feel like i'm constantly shifting myself towards it like a sunflower to the sun.
to that end, i have a plan.
that plan is to continue to surround myself with people who'll look after me, including bart (pictured above with his best friend, the kitchenaid mixer), sarah (not pictured, but sitting on the other side of bart eating a cookie), ian, shagy, nicole, my cousins, my sister, & any other person i run into who'll let me be. they'll distract me when i need it & let me talk when i have to, & they won't fault me for beating a dead horse when i wonder aloud for the billionth time what the hell is going on in daniel's head & whether he truly just doesn't give a shit about me.
my angst isn't pretty, but it's me.
in the meantime, i'll cook for other people, but not the boy i want to feed; i'll rub other people's hands, but not the hands i want to rub; i'll go to see movies, but not with the person i want to be with; & time will pass & i'll put one foot in front of the other, b/c, like meg said:
it's NOT about forgetting it's NOT about giving up, it's about going through the motions of living so you don't forget how to do that [...] even if we don't feel it. even if we can't stop thinking about something horrible. we will walk, goddamnit.
i will walk.
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Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
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The Global Mind Project stems from an earlier art and cognitive neuroscience project ‘Art of Mind’, which I initiated in 2004 at the Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
During the initial investigative phase I underwent numerous hours of EEG (Electroencephalograph) testing to record my brainwave activity, while engaged in the process of meditation and creative conceptualization. The purpose of this research was to observe the cerebral electrical impulses associated with inspiration and creativity.
The testing procedure and data analysis, conducted over several weeks by Professor Rodney Croft, revealed the varying neurological responses to these predetermined mental tasks.
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Award-winning photojournalist, Karim Ben Khelifa, is widely known for his coverage of the Middle East conflicts, especially the Iraq and Afghan wars, where he covered the insurgent sides. While a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT, Ben Khelifa designed and prototyped his latest project The Enemy. This immersive installation uses VR to bring the audience into conversations between enemies within longstanding global conflicts. During his residency, he collaborated with Fox Harrell of the Imagination, Computation and Expression (ICE) Laboratory, to integrate concepts from cognitive science and Artificial Intelligence-based interaction models into the project to engender empathy.
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the Honourable David Peterson
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Biology PhD student George Todd presents his research on hover fly cognitive and behavioral ecology during a Three Minute Thesis competition held last week in the Century Rooms of the Millennium Student Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. A total of 14 master's and doctoral students took part in the event, which required them to present their research in a 3-minute presentation using only one static slide. Three Minute Thesis presentations are competitive, and the expectation is that they be understandable for a general university audience –not just to specialists in the student’s area of research. The official Three Minute Thesis organization is housed at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and the UMSL competition following the organization's guidelines with a few local modifications.
Biology PhD student Jeremy Howard placed first in the UMSL competition with a presentation on spatial navigation in bumblebees. Chemistry PhD student Palak Sondhi was second with a presentation on binding interactions of biologically relevant molecules studied using surface-modified and nanostructured surfaces. Criminology and Criminal Justice PhD student Timothy Kauer finished third for his presentation on a legal analysis of protecting juveniles exploited through prostitution. Biology PhD student Ketra Oketcho won the people's choice award for her presentation examining plant disease resistance ot the East African Cassava Mosaic virus. (Photo by August Jennewein)
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"Perhaps the last stronghold of autonomous man is that complex "cognitive" activity called thinking." B. F. Skinner
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the Honourable David Peterson.
Symposium on Cognitive Sceicne, Mindfulness, & Consciousness.
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) discusses some of the hazards of research into laughter at Bright Club, December 2010.
Bright Club is a collaboration between comedy promoters One Green Firework, music promoters Duel in the Deep and UCL. It celebrated its second birthday in May 2011.
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Lepage and members of his company Ex Machina met extensively with members of the Media Lab and Theater Arts to exchange ideas about emerging research and new technologies. They attended the MIT Media Lab’s open house and viewed demonstrations of current projects in many areas, including Tod Machover and graduate students in the Opera of the Future lab, and Deb Roy and the Cognitive Machines group. A visit to Global Shakespeare with Professors Peter Donaldson, Diana Henderson, and Shankar Raman revealed new digital tools for Ex Machina to draw upon for future presentations of Shakespeare.
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