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Month: November 2018

Episode 4: Confabulation

Episode 4: Confabulation

Key Points From studies of patients with split brains, anosognosia, and Korsakoff’s syndrome comes the the concept of the interpreter, an area in the dominant hemisphere that’s in charge of explaining our own behavior. As discussed in the prior episode

jturknett November 19, 2018December 7, 2018 Intelligence Unshackled, Mental Models Read more

Episode 3: Subterranean

Episode 3: Subterranean

Key Points In recent years, neuroscience research has revealed that the majority (up to 95%, by some estimates) of the neural networks that support cognitive function are housed in circuity that is largely segregated, or walled off, from the networks

jturknett November 12, 2018November 20, 2018 Intelligence Unshackled, Mental Models Read more

Episode 2: Hardware & Software

Key Points Mental Models are cognitive filters for extracting different kinds of information from phenomena in our world. In Charlie Munger’s words, they form a “latticework of theory” upon which we can hang facts about the world. The more models

jturknett November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Mental Models Read more

Episode 1: The Unshackling of Human Intelligence

KEY POINTS from Episode 1 1. The Central Thesis: The human brain has far more potential than most realize, and releasing that potential requires that we understand and address the ways in which its function is limited, or “shackled”. 2.

jturknett November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Intelligence Unshackled Read more
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