Category: Knowledge
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The new. The old. Selecting. Living true.
As contributors to businesses, sports teams, or governments, most of us take part in some sort of group problem solving. But what is the best way to collaborate on a difficult problem like developing a budget or designing a new product? Past research on collective problem solving has come to conflicting conclusions. Some studies have…
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Intuition. (not intuition at all...)
What is intuition? Pearson and his colleagues wanted to take a more rigorous look at this hard-to-pin-down phenomenon. To begin with, they agreed that there are two qualities present in any instance of intuition: It has to involve a piece of information that you’re not exactly conscious of, and it has to have an emotional…
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Babies categorizing colours…
Researchers have revealed that infants aged between 5 and 7 months hold the representation of color categories in their brain, even before the acquisition of language. [1] We believe we have evolved and changed. But we are still that baby which tries to “categorize” everything it sees. Babies we still are. Trapped in the bodies…
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Changes… Changes? [OR: Why science is a tautology?]
Brain of astronauts changes while living in space. (1) So deep... Like saying that something changes when its environment... changes! Wittgenstein said that mathematics were mere tautologies and conveyed no real message or knowledge. Perhaps we should start thinking the same about sciences... What is is. And you will never know anything more…
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