Abstractions do have causal power in this universe. The placebo effect is real.
Related Notes:
1-2g1c3 Confining yourself only to ‘your mind’ is quite an arbitrary decision
1-1a1c1 Peirce said his achievements were due to his peculiar way of thinking as well as his method of thinking
6-4 Proper epistemology should lead to a proper state of mind
1-2f2 Popperian epistemology is universal, because it allows any knowledge to be created
9-2a3b1 Don’t pick up anything whose epistemology is not Popperian
4-1a4b8b Multitasking can be adapted without any downsides if you conceptualize the mind accordingly
Next:
1-1a Culture and technology can influence our perception of what human mind is — explicitly, inexplicitly, and unconsciously
1-2 We are fallible
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