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Ch1 L17: why we can hardly think these days

November 18, 2018 6 Comments

In the last post, we discussed that due to minergy [1] and the fear of taking responsibility, we’d be rather inclined to receive suggested solutions than to think to solve our problems [2]. Earlier we discussed why fear is the most fundamental and dominant emotion [3]. The diagram below illustrates how fear can affect our decisions [4]. Fear works like […]

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My target readers are exactly those whom Einstein and Infeld have described in the preface of “the evolution of physics”: “Whilst writing the book we had long discussions as to the characteristics of our idealized reader and worried a good deal about him. We had him making up for a complete lack of any concrete knowledge of physics and mathematics by quite a great number of virtues. We found him interested in physical and philosophical ideas and we were forced to admire the patience with which he struggled through the less interesting and more difficult passages. He realized that in order to understand any page he must have read the preceding ones carefully. He knew that a scientific book, even though popular, must not be read in the same way as a novel.”

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Ch1 L17: why we can hardly think these days

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