A 2018 study on a large, representative sample of preschoolers sought to replicate the statistically significant correlations between early-age delay times and later-age life outcomes, like SAT scores, which had been previously found using data from the original marshmallow test. The replication study found only...
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This post is an image only. It sums up my understanding of human thinking. ...
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One can see dramatic human evolution over the last 20K years (as represented by the rise of civilization). It takes reason to produce/sustain civilization. Specifically, reason develops conceptual understandings of systems (in the prefrontal cortex--the newest portion of the human brain). Civilization is conceptual. God...
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RE AI and how dumb it can be -- A funny thing happened to me on Twitter. A Twitter user began her dialog with me using combative language (screw your God). I replied, noting that emotional language does not contribute to a collegial debate. She concluded that,...
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The Solutions A societal commitment to the early development of SELF-control (free will) in all citizens (this is the secular path), or ...
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On Twitter, the debate about the existence of God, at least amongst those atheists and theists that I regularly interact with, has achieved detente. Now, most individuals comfortably accept that the existence of God cannot be proven or disproven. The question now often is: Why God...
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The key skill parents and education must accomplish is the development of self-control (free will). https://server.learningframework.com/?p=16505 AND ...
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Concise answer: FOUNDATION - To find TRUTH, a thinker must meet the necessary and sufficient conditions with their hypothesis. The necessary condition is met when a (falsifiable) hypothesis accurately describes the observed. The sufficient condition is met only when all but one of the KNOWN and...
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On Twitter, I am often engaged by Atheists. I am not where they are, though I enjoy talking with them. I am also not religious. I subscribe loosely to Voltaire's observation: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." The reason is as...
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Beware AI (artificial intelligence). AI is decidedly not intelligent. AI is 100% dysrational (unable to be rational). It will ONLY do what it is trained to do (with some operant conditioning-like adaptability). It cannot see or contemplate either the bigger picture or consider alternative strategies. Consequently, people...
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