有序：关于心智效率的认知科学
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Nunc Dimittis2022-08-10“Groopman and Hartzband describe four types of patients: minimalist, maximalist, naturalist, and technologist. A medical minimalist tries to interact with medicine and doctors as little as possible. A maximalist thinks every problem, every ache and pain, has a medical solution. A naturalist believes the body can cure itself, perhaps with the aid of plant-based and spiritual remedies. A technologist believes there are always new drugs or procedures that are better than anything that came before them, and that they will be the most effective route to follow.”Excerpt FromOrganized Mind : Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (9780698157224)Levitin, Daniel J.This material may be protected by copyright.
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Nunc Dimittis2022-08-10“Indeed, because some of the alternative therapies, such as diet and exercise, do make so much sense, and because there are so very many stories like my friend’s, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has set up a division for complementary and alternative medicine to explore such treatments, using all the tools of modern science. So far, the NIH reports many cases of no effects or tiny effects, translating to only small numbers of people who benefit from alternative therapies and an enormous number who don’t. In one typical study, for example, nearly 100,000 individuals were randomly assigned to Vitamin D versus none or placebo, in order to test the hypothesis that Vitamin D is preventive against cancer and cardiovascular disease. The results found that 150 people need to be treate...
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Nunc Dimittis2022-08-10“Lying in wait within “alternative medicine” may well be a cure for cancer or other ailments. Research is under way in hundreds of laboratories throughout the world testing herbal preparations, alternative medicines and therapies. But until they are shown to be effective, they carry the danger that they may cause patients to delay seeking treatments that have been shown to work, and consequently delay a cure sometimes beyond the point of no return. This is what happened to Steve Jobs—he rejected surgery to follow an alternative regime of acupuncture, dietary supplements, and juices that he later realized didn’t work and that delayed the conventional treatment that experts say would probably have prolonged his life.”Excerpt FromOrganized Mind : Thinking Straight in the Age of Information...
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Nunc Dimittis2022-08-10“Like the doctors who were eager to believe in coronary bypass and angioplasties because they had a plausible mechanism, we’re willing to believe that diet and exercise can beat cancer without any scientific support. It’s just plausible enough and it makes intuitive sense to us. None of us has a complete understanding of the relation between diet, exercise, disease, and health. We hear the story and we think, “Yeah, there just might be something to that.” To see that we’re basing this on the plausibility of the mechanism rather than the data, consider that if, instead of diet and exercise, my friend slept upside down in a tent the shape of a pyramid, we’d say that was just crazy.”Excerpt FromOrganized Mind : Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (9780698157224)Levitin, D...
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Nunc Dimittis2022-08-10“My friend beating cancer with diet and exercise is neither consistent nor inconsistent with science; it stands outside of scientific scrutiny because the data were not collected in a scientific way.”Excerpt FromOrganized Mind : Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (9780698157224)Levitin, Daniel J.This material may be protected by copyright.
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34mblue2022-01-16...We look at the world and can perceive that there exists a category that includes a set of things more alike, and yet we recognise minor variations. This extends to man-made artifacts as well...
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加油吧爆肝少女2021-02-15Each time we dispatch with an e-mail in one way or another, we feel a sense of accomplishment, and our brain gets a dollop of reward hormones telling us we accomplished something. Each time we check a Twitter feed or Facebook update, we encounter something novel and feel more connected socially and get another dollop of reward hormones. But remember, it is the dumber, novelty-seeking portion of the brain driving the limbic system that induces this feeling of pleasure, not the planning, scheduling, higher-level thought centres in the prefrontal cortex. Make no mistake: email, Facebook, and Twitter checking constitutes a neural addiction.
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UX男糖2019-07-21艺术家重构现实，从不同角度给我们呈现之前从未观察到的世界。创作会直接调动大脑的神游模式、激不同想法之间的自由合与结合，在概念与神经元节点之间建立起某种连接，这都是其他人法完成的。因此，无论是作为消费者还是创作者，参与艺术都可以帮助我们摁下大脑的复位键一一时间会停止;我们会沉思;我们会重新想象自己与世界的关系。
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妖精2018-05-22意识并不是一种全有或全无的状态；相反，它是不同状态的连续。
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Lucia2015-11-28Satisficing is one of the foundations of productive human behavior; it prevails when we don’t waste time on decisions that don’t matter, or more accurately, when we don’t waste time trying to find improvements that are not going to make a significant difference in our happiness or satisfaction.satisficing is a tool for not wasting time on things that are not your highest priority. For your high-priority endeavors, the old-fashioned pursuit of excellence remains the right strategyAll this ignoring and deciding comes with a cost. Neuroscientists have discovered that unproductivity and loss of drive can result from decision overload. Although most of us have no trouble ranking the importance of decisions if asked to do so, our brains don’t automatically do this. Ioana knew that keeping up...