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Archive for September, 2008

Why Did I Do That?

Posted in assumptions, ends and means, responsibility on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Do people make deliberate choices for negative reasons?
I used to imagine they do. I used to think I did. But as I have come to be able to watch myself in action making decisions and as I have come to watch my students deal with decisions they have made and habits they have put in [...]

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Reflexes & Appropriateness

Posted in stories on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Reflexes are very handy. They are ready-made programs designed to deal with the recognition of the “need” for them. Reflexes are the ability to train skills, in essence, when chained together. The brain is superb at recognizing, but when the recognition comes, you can fire off these chains of skills and get amazing skills to [...]

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