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Apr 10, 2024
increased seretonin can decrease reward-seeking behaviors
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You should follow your own morality even if it means the disapproval of society
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You should listen to your own judgement rather than to groupthink or authority bias
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What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves
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When a system of thought becomes less than totally trivial, an infinite regress of challenges manifest and it becomes increasingly uncertain
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When we mistake our models with reality itself, we stifle our capacity to learn new ideas
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Withdrawl
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Without the potential for creative thought, people would only evaluate things mechanically through preheld beliefs
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Working memory
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You should embrace the unique role you have in the order of the universe
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Ventral tegmental area
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We generally struggle to examine and criticize our own neural programs
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We only rush to certitude when time pressure or prejudice is involved
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There are many things that we choose to keep private that are not necessarily wrong
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Things that philosophers thought they knew through pure reason often ended up being wrong
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To be innovative, we must embrace our uniqueness
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To be self-reliant and innovative requires not conforming to social norms
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Tolerance
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Transaction
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Truth only applies depending on the context in which one is speaking
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Ubiquitous surveillence and data mining eliminates the ephemerality of our past words and actions
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The quantity of dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens neurons determines the magnitude of reward
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The right hemisphere has broad, global, and flexible attention, while the left has narrow attention
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The right hemisphere sees the whole first, and then the left hemisphere separates it into parts
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The right hemisphere sees things in their context
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The scientific method cannot lead to certainty, but only high probability
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The second stage of perception
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The third stage of perception
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The three unwholesome roots
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The way we attend to something changes whatever that thing is to uss
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The evolution of the human brain lead to our brains being immature at birth
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The fifth stage of perception
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The finite models of the universe that we cling to lead us to discard the infinity of existential reality
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The first stage of perception
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The fourth stage of perception
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The frontal cortex is equally vulnerable to shrinkage from cortisol as the hippocampus
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The global attention of the right hemisphere precedes the narrow attention of the left hemisphere
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The law can find a reason to convict anyone if they have enough data on them
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The left hemisphere prioritizes things that it already knows and expects
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The left hemisphere sees things abstracted, isolated, and stripped of context
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The left hemisphere tends to be stubbornly certain, whereas the right acknowledges ambiguity and is always uncertain
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The more certain of our views we become, the more we perceive ourselves to be victims of an impersonal world
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The brain's perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously interpret and edit their input
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The cerebral hemispheres are more independent in babies and children
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Society will have no chance of progress if surveillance prevents it from deviating our current beliefs and values
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Spotlight consciousness
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Strange Loop
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Stress causes the amygdala and HPA axis to quite the prefrontal cortex by flooding it with dopamine and cortisol
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Stress-fear-memory pathway
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Subjective bias
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Synapse
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Synergy
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Self-referential statement
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Self-reliance
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Serotonergic pathway
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Serotonin-1a autoreceptors on the dorsal raphe nucleus ensure that it releases a balanced amount of serotonin
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Serotonin-1a receptor
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Serotonin-1a receptors don't usually down-regulate in respose to increased serotonin
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Serotonin-1a receptors inhibit postsynaptic neurons
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Serotonin
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Pure Reason
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Purity test
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Reality tunnel
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Receptor
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Reification
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Relative truth
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Representationalism
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Right hemisphere
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Prefrontal cortex
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Privacy allows us to selectively reveal aspects of ourselves depending on the situation
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People become hypnotized by their views to avoid having to deal with doubt and uncertainty
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People have a tendency to become territorial over their belief systems
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Pleasure
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Posterior cingulate cortex
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Operant conditioning
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Opioid peptide
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Orbitofrontal cortex
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Our left hemisphere unconsciously focuses on only a select few of the sensory signals it receives that it considers important
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Mindfulness
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Model Agnosticism
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Much of the growth of the human brain occurs after birth
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Multitasking can worsen cognitive inhibition
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Neuron
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Neurotransmitter
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Novelty is handled by the right hemisphere, and is transferred to the left hemisphere as it becomes familiar
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Nucleus accumbens
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Mass surveillence and data mining is more suitable for population discrimination than for legal investigations
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Meaningless statement
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Mechanical mode
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Mesolimbic pathway
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Language can be seen as a kind of metaphor
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Lantern consciousness
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Left hemisphere
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Liberal Humean
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Limbic system
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Indeterminate statement
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Inhibitory control
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Intelligent mode
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Jump out of the system
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Humanities greatest thinkers are those who defied groupthink and authority bias and followed their own judgement
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Idol
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Idolatry
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If skepticism is excessive enough it will invert itself into a blind faith
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Imprint
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Fundamentalism
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Game rule
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Groupthink
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HPA axis
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Happiness
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Hippocampus
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Elevated levels of cortisol can shrink the hippocampus
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Emic Reality
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Essentialism
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Etic Reality
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Every fundamentalism perpetuates itself by repetition and group reinforcement
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Every individual has their own unique character and motion by design of the universe
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Excessive cortisol release has been shown to down-regulate serotonin-1a receptors
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Excitotoxicity
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Each perception that we make is best considered to be a gamble rather than a certainty
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Echo chamber
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Dopamine
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Data mining and personalized algorithms create an online experience that is increasingly tailored to our interests
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Data mining can lead us into trouble in the present for something that wasn't considered wrong previously
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Default mode network
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Dendrite
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Cognitive flexibility
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Cognitive inhibition
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Confirmation bias
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Conformity
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Corpus callosum
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Cortisol
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Craving
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Children and babies act independently without caring what others will think
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Children serve to inject new ideas into the system of cultural evolution
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Chronic exitation of neurons may eventually result in apoptosis
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Chronic stress weakens the prefrontal cortex and gives the amygdala more influence on behavior
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Clinging
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Cognitive dissonance
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Babies and children are more reliant on the right hemisphere than the left
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Because perception is not absolute, all of our ideas are somewhat conjectural and inferential
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Attention control
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Autoreceptor
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Axon
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Amygdala activity triggers the VTA to release dopamine
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Amygdala
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Apoptosis
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ADHD
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Actively try to confront information that is opposed to your beliefs and expectations
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A languages structure and grammatic rules can distort how we interpret and percieve reality

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