Creative and Critical Thinking
Spring 2010
assignment - take chosen object (comb) portray as familiar and then shift to strange (change in perception, medium, light, mood) and then from strange to familiar.
Jeffrey Li completed an intelligence assessment and found his scores to be more homogenous than expected. He criticizes the test for failing to objectively measure intelligence and instead measuring personal tendencies. The questions were too vague and did not accurately assess cognitive ability. Of his scores, he was most surprised by his high score in visual/spatial intelligence given his lack of artistic skill.
The document contains a collection of short philosophical sayings or quotes. Some of the quotes discuss time, life experiences, making mistakes, facing fears, creating one's own future, and observing nature without self-pity. The quotes are attributed to various anonymous sources and aim to provide words of wisdom.
The document summarizes research comparing two subjects, Board and Wocket, who share similarities in personality and behavior. Both subjects prefer to avoid conflict and criticism, and find common ground through lengthy conversations while spectating in games. The research aims to better understand the subjects' relationship and motivations, but is limited by funding.
This document provides information about the airline industry and WestJet. It discusses how the airline industry has struggled financially, with cumulative losses of $14 billion over 58 years. It then lists many Canadian and US airlines that have ceased operations, demonstrating the challenging nature of the industry. The document suggests HR plays a role in strengthening the WestJet brand.
How To Acclimate Saltwater Fish Invertebrates And Live Corals To Your...marineworldpk
The document provides instructions for properly acclimating saltwater fish, invertebrates, and live corals to an aquarium. It describes two acclimation methods: the floating method, which involves floating the sealed shipping bag in the aquarium for 15 minutes then gradually adding aquarium water; and the drip method, which uses airline tubing to slowly add aquarium water to a bucket containing the organisms over an hour. The key steps are to slowly adjust the water parameters and never expose sensitive invertebrates to air. Patience is important to avoid stress or harming the organisms during the acclimation process.
The document discusses Ryan Ashcraft's unedited and enhanced photos. It provides technical details for various unedited photos such as shutter speed, f-stop, and depth of field. For the enhanced photos, it describes minor edits like cropping edges or people, adjusting levels, or slightly changing colors to improve familiar/strange elements, motion, balance, or simplicity. The document also covers basic photographic compositional techniques like rule of thirds, lines, framing, and balance.
The document lists Strange Music's 2011 MVP awards for best verses of the year, with Brotha Lynch Hung winning for his verse on "How Ya Do Dat Again", Krizz Kaliko coming in second for his verse on "Medicine", and Kutt Calhoun taking third for his second verse on "I'm Forever". Stevie Stone, Big Scoob, Jay Rock, and Young Bleed were also recognized for their outstanding verses on "Overtime", "Love Me Tomorrow", "Just Like Me", and "Won't You Come Dirty" respectively.
Jeffrey Li completed an intelligence assessment and found his scores to be more homogenous than expected. He criticizes the test for failing to objectively measure intelligence and instead measuring personal tendencies. The questions were too vague and did not accurately assess cognitive ability. Of his scores, he was most surprised by his high score in visual/spatial intelligence given his lack of artistic skill.
The document contains a collection of short philosophical sayings or quotes. Some of the quotes discuss time, life experiences, making mistakes, facing fears, creating one's own future, and observing nature without self-pity. The quotes are attributed to various anonymous sources and aim to provide words of wisdom.
The document summarizes research comparing two subjects, Board and Wocket, who share similarities in personality and behavior. Both subjects prefer to avoid conflict and criticism, and find common ground through lengthy conversations while spectating in games. The research aims to better understand the subjects' relationship and motivations, but is limited by funding.
This document provides information about the airline industry and WestJet. It discusses how the airline industry has struggled financially, with cumulative losses of $14 billion over 58 years. It then lists many Canadian and US airlines that have ceased operations, demonstrating the challenging nature of the industry. The document suggests HR plays a role in strengthening the WestJet brand.
How To Acclimate Saltwater Fish Invertebrates And Live Corals To Your...marineworldpk
The document provides instructions for properly acclimating saltwater fish, invertebrates, and live corals to an aquarium. It describes two acclimation methods: the floating method, which involves floating the sealed shipping bag in the aquarium for 15 minutes then gradually adding aquarium water; and the drip method, which uses airline tubing to slowly add aquarium water to a bucket containing the organisms over an hour. The key steps are to slowly adjust the water parameters and never expose sensitive invertebrates to air. Patience is important to avoid stress or harming the organisms during the acclimation process.
The document discusses Ryan Ashcraft's unedited and enhanced photos. It provides technical details for various unedited photos such as shutter speed, f-stop, and depth of field. For the enhanced photos, it describes minor edits like cropping edges or people, adjusting levels, or slightly changing colors to improve familiar/strange elements, motion, balance, or simplicity. The document also covers basic photographic compositional techniques like rule of thirds, lines, framing, and balance.
The document lists Strange Music's 2011 MVP awards for best verses of the year, with Brotha Lynch Hung winning for his verse on "How Ya Do Dat Again", Krizz Kaliko coming in second for his verse on "Medicine", and Kutt Calhoun taking third for his second verse on "I'm Forever". Stevie Stone, Big Scoob, Jay Rock, and Young Bleed were also recognized for their outstanding verses on "Overtime", "Love Me Tomorrow", "Just Like Me", and "Won't You Come Dirty" respectively.
The document discusses various definitions and theories of intelligence. It begins by defining intelligence as an umbrella term for mental abilities such as reasoning, problem solving, thinking abstractly, comprehending ideas, using language, and learning. It notes there is no single agreed upon definition. The document then examines several theories of intelligence, including Charles Spearman's theory of general intelligence, Louis Thurstone's theory of primary mental abilities, Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory, and Daniel Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence. It also lists and describes nine proposed types of intelligence.
General symptomatology & psychopathology of psychiatric disorderJuliet Sujatha
The document provides an overview of general symptomatology and psychopathology of psychiatric disorders. It discusses components of the mind like thought disorders, disturbances in perception, unreality states, and memory disorders. It then examines specific thought disorders like tangentiality, circumstantially, looseness of association, flight of ideas, and others. It also discusses disorders of perception such as hallucinations and illusions. Finally, it briefly touches on disorders of consciousness including confusion and delirium.
What is it like to be a bat httpmembers.aol.comNeoNoetics.docxhelzerpatrina
What is it like to be a bat http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Nagel_Bat.html
1 of 9 20/04/2004 16.12
What is it like to be a bat?
Thomas Nagel
[From The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974):
435-50.]
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current
discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave of
reductionist euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and mental concepts designed
to explain the possibility of some variety of materialism, psychophysical identification, or reduction.
1
But
the problems dealt with are those common to this type of reduction and other types, and what makes the
mind-body problem unique, and unlike the water-H2O problem or the Turing machine-IBM machine
problem or the lightning-electrical discharge problem or the gene-DNA problem or the oak
tree-hydrocarbon problem, is ignored.
Every reductionist has his favorite analogy from modern science. It is most unlikely that any of these
unrelated examples of successful reduction will shed light on the relation of mind to brain. But
philosophers share the general human weakness for explanations of what is incomprehensible in terms
suited for what is familiar and well understood, though entirely different. This has led to the acceptance of
implausible accounts of the mental largely because they would permit familiar kinds of reduction. I shall
try to explain why the usual examples do not help us to understand the relation between mind and
body—why, indeed, we have at present no conception of what an explanation of the physical nature of a
mental phenomenon would be. Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less
interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless. The most important and characteristic feature of
conscious mental phenomena is very poorly understood. Most reductionist theories do not even try to
explain it. And careful examination will show that no currently available concept of reduction is
applicable to it. Perhaps a new theoretical form can be devised for the purpose, but such a solution, if it
exists, lies in the distant intellectual future.
Conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon. It occurs at many levels of animal life, though we
cannot be sure of its presence in the simpler organisms, and it is very difficult to say in general what
provides evidence of it. (Some extremists have been prepared to deny it even of mammals other than
man.) No doubt it occurs in countless forms totally unimaginable to us, on other planets in other solar
systems throughout the universe. But no matter how the form may vary, the fact that an organism has
conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something it is like to be that organism. There
may be further implications about the form of the experience; there may even (though I doubt it) be
implications about the behavior of the ...
Being an introvert seems like a fate, but in fact it‘s a challenge. Understand-
ing yourself will help you tackle the problems that all introverts are facing: health
risks, job-related problems and difficult relationships. Knowing about those intro-
vert specific issues will help you to lift your burden and to develop your true po-
tential. And as a result, you will live happier and healthier.
Group psychology and the analysis of the egoMichel Newman
1. The document summarizes key points from Gustave Le Bon's work on group psychology. Le Bon argues that when individuals form a group, they take on a "collective mind" that is different from when they are alone. They lose their individual characteristics and take on an "average character" of the group.
2. Le Bon believes individuals in a group also display new, more primitive characteristics due to "contagion" and heightened "suggestibility." He likens the state of individuals in a group to a hypnotic state, where they obey suggestions without conscious control over their actions.
3. The source of the "fascination" or hypnotic influence over group members is not clearly
This document provides an introduction to and overview of cold reading techniques used by some psychic readers. It explains that cold readers can glean a lot of information about clients before a reading simply by observing clues like appearance, mannerisms, speech and other behaviors. This allows readers to tailor their responses to seem insightful without prior knowledge. It also outlines common problems or life events that prompt people to seek readings, like relationship issues, health concerns, and desire for reassurance or advice. The document aims to equip readers with psychological insights to perform convincing yet unsupported readings for clients.
This document provides an introduction to the art of cold reading and character analysis. It discusses how cold readers are able to diagnose people's problems and predict outcomes based on an understanding of human behavior and psychology. While cold readers do not actually have psychic abilities, they are able to lower people's guards and get them to reveal information by observing clues and asking probing questions in a reassuring manner. The document contrasts the methods of cold readers and psychiatrists, while noting they pursue similar goals of helping people through understanding human nature.
This document discusses the definition and branches of philosophy. Philosophy comes from the Greek words "philos" meaning love and "sophia" meaning wisdom. It is defined as using human reason to study the first causes or highest principles of things through natural light of reason and unaided by other sciences. The main branches of philosophy are metaphysics, which studies existence; ethics, which studies morality; epistemology, which studies knowledge; and logic, which studies reasoning. The document also discusses why philosophizing through wondering and reflection is important to gain a holistic perspective.
Course 0837 assingment 1 roll no ce529580shannazir1
The document defines various sources of knowledge including senses, intuition, authority, and reason. It discusses each source in detail and notes both strengths and limitations. The senses are described as the most important source but also prone to providing a useful rather than objective reality. Intuition can provide insights but often proves incorrect. Authority and reason can generate new knowledge but depend on initial facts being accurate. The document also defines educational research as a systematic process to improve education through applying scientific methods. It notes research can be exploratory, descriptive, or explanatory and discusses qualitative and quantitative methods.
The document discusses imagining oneself as a 572-year-old engaged in various activities and scenarios. It explores:
1) Imagining oneself at 572 years old on a Sunday afternoon engaged in a leisure activity and then starting work on Monday.
2) The challenges of imagining oneself or one's environment at such an advanced age, and comparing it to imagining other ages such as 456 or 140 years old.
3) How collective cultural knowledge and examples like fictional characters can make imagining older ages easier by providing models or contexts to imagine within.
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming thatSantosConleyha
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming that they have one?What does “semiotic” mean? What could Geertz have in mind when he says that culture is “semiotic”? How does Geertz's notion of culture differ from that given above?
2. Who was John Ryle and why is he remembered? What is the point of Geertz’s long example, adapted from the work of Gilbert Ryle, where he discusses “twitches, winks, fake-winks, parodies, [and] rehearsals of parodies” (pp. 6-7)? How would Ryle's description of a wink differ from that of Geertz? How might these twitches, winks, and so on be analyzed if we understand the study of culture as an “experimental science”? How does our analysis change if we believe that the study of culture is “interpretive”?
3. Read the passage from Geertz’s field journal (pp. 7-9) again slowly, paying attention to detail. Describe what happens in in three or four sentences. What might Geertz mean at the end of the passage when he notes “how extraordinarily ‘thick’” even such an “elemental” ethnographic description must be? What are the implications of this “thickness” for the study of communication?
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Culture·
I
In her book, Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer remarks that
certain ideas burst. upon the intellectual landscape with a tremendous
force. They resolve so many fundamental problems at once that they
seem also to promise that they will resolve all fundamental problems,
clarify all obscure issues. Everyone snaps them up as the open sesame
of some new positive science, the conceptual center-point around which
a comprehensive system of analysis can be built. The sudden vogue of
such a grande idee, crowding out almost everything else for a while, is
due, she says, "to the fact that all sensitive and active minds turn at
once to exploiting it. We try it in every connection, for every purpose,
experiment with possible stretches of its strict meaning, with generaliza-
tions and derivatives."
After we have become familiar with the new idea, however, after it
has become part Qf our general stock of theoretical concepts, our expec-
4 THE INTERPRETATION OF CUL TURES
tations are bro_ught more into balance with its actual uses, and its exces-
sive popularity is ended. A few zealots persist in the old key-to-the-uni-
verse view of it; but less driven thinkers settle down after a while to the
problems the idea has really generated. They try to apply it and extend
it where it applies and where it is capable of extension; and they desist
where it does not apply, or cannot be extended. It becomes, if it was, in
truth, a seminal idea in the first place, a permanent and enduring part
of our intellectual armory. But it no longer has the grandiose, ...
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming thatBenitoSumpter862
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming that they have one?What does “semiotic” mean? What could Geertz have in mind when he says that culture is “semiotic”? How does Geertz's notion of culture differ from that given above?
2. Who was John Ryle and why is he remembered? What is the point of Geertz’s long example, adapted from the work of Gilbert Ryle, where he discusses “twitches, winks, fake-winks, parodies, [and] rehearsals of parodies” (pp. 6-7)? How would Ryle's description of a wink differ from that of Geertz? How might these twitches, winks, and so on be analyzed if we understand the study of culture as an “experimental science”? How does our analysis change if we believe that the study of culture is “interpretive”?
3. Read the passage from Geertz’s field journal (pp. 7-9) again slowly, paying attention to detail. Describe what happens in in three or four sentences. What might Geertz mean at the end of the passage when he notes “how extraordinarily ‘thick’” even such an “elemental” ethnographic description must be? What are the implications of this “thickness” for the study of communication?
- __ ., ______ r-- _________ _
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il,c ~~-( ,t +zcti(.>j td: C.i"-111,c/{_~)~ ---
} -· · - f[t; L_· " t"-l '-I . ' f'")lA... ') \ C . ,)
Chapter I /Thick
Description: Toward an
Interpretive Theory of
Culture·
I
In her book, Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer remarks that
certain ideas burst. upon the intellectual landscape with a tremendous
force. They resolve so many fundamental problems at once that they
seem also to promise that they will resolve all fundamental problems,
clarify all obscure issues. Everyone snaps them up as the open sesame
of some new positive science, the conceptual center-point around which
a comprehensive system of analysis can be built. The sudden vogue of
such a grande idee, crowding out almost everything else for a while, is
due, she says, "to the fact that all sensitive and active minds turn at
once to exploiting it. We try it in every connection, for every purpose,
experiment with possible stretches of its strict meaning, with generaliza-
tions and derivatives."
After we have become familiar with the new idea, however, after it
has become part Qf our general stock of theoretical concepts, our expec-
4 THE INTERPRETATION OF CUL TURES
tations are bro_ught more into balance with its actual uses, and its exces-
sive popularity is ended. A few zealots persist in the old key-to-the-uni-
verse view of it; but less driven thinkers settle down after a while to the
problems the idea has really generated. They try to apply it and extend
it where it applies and where it is capable of extension; and they desist
where it does not apply, or cannot be extended. It becomes, if it was, in
truth, a seminal idea in the first place, a permanent and enduring part
of our intellectual armory. But it no longer has the grandiose, ...
An Analysis Of Intellectual DysfunctionAmy Cernava
This document provides an analysis of intellectual dysfunction from a psychoanalytic perspective. It presents a two-point theory: 1) Intellectual inhibition arises from a relationship with a dominating, autocratic caretaker who impaired the child's development to serve their own narcissistic needs. 2) Intellectual blocking results as a defense against examining bad childhood experiences, especially with caretakers. This is illustrated through three case studies and discussed in the context of Object Relations theory. The document differentiates this perspective from other psychoanalytic viewpoints by arguing psychic disturbances stem from relationships with pathogenic objects throughout childhood, not just inadequate mothering in infancy.
This document provides an overview of the eBook "Clairvoyance and Occult Powers" by Swami Panchadasi. It includes information about the author, release date, and language of the eBook. It also lists the table of contents which outlines 16 lessons about various occult and psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychometry, astral projection, and psychic influence. The lessons provide explanations of these phenomena and instructions for cultivating these abilities.
Crazy Futures I an exploration on the necessity of pushing your thinking past...Wendy Schultz
Don't merely consider what you think is plausible - recognise that you may not have the whole story on emerging changes, and that what's emerging may shatter the bounds of what's currently 'plausible'. Get creative, test assumptions, test values and worldviews.
First Enquiry David Hume 12 The sceptical philosophy‘But .docxAKHIL969626
First Enquiry David Hume 12: The sceptical philosophy
‘But with regard to your main line of thought’ (I continued)
‘there occurs to me a difficulty that I shall just propose to
you without insisting on it, lest it lead into reasonings of
too subtle and delicate a nature. Briefly, then, I very much
doubt that it’s possible for a cause to be known only by its
effect (as you have supposed all through) or to be so singular
and particular that it has no parallel or similarity with any
other cause or object we have ever observed. It is only when
two kinds of objects are found to be constantly conjoined
that we can infer one from the other; and if we encountered
an effect that was entirely singular, and couldn’t be placed
in any known kind, I don’t see that we could conjecture
or infer anything at all concerning its cause. If experience
and observation and analogy really are the only guides we
can reasonably follow in inferences of this sort, both the
effect and the cause must have some similarity to other
effects and causes that we already know and have found
often to be conjoined with each other. I leave it to you to
think through the consequences of this principle. I shall
merely remark that, as the antagonists of Epicurus always
suppose that the universe, an effect that is quite singular
and unparalleled, is proof of a god, a cause no less singular
and unparalleled, your reasonings about this seem at least
to merit our attention. There is, I admit, some difficulty in
grasping how we can ever return from the cause to the effect,
and by reasoning from our ideas of the cause infer anything
new about the effect.’
Section 12: The sceptical philosophy
Philosophical arguments proving the existence of a god and
refuting the fallacies of atheists outnumber the arguments
on any other topic. Yet most religious philosophers still
disagree about whether any man can be so blinded as to
be an atheist. How shall we reconcile these contradictions?
The knights-errant who wandered about to clear the world
of dragons and giants never had the least doubt that these
monsters existed!
The sceptic is another enemy of religion who naturally
arouses the indignation of all religious authorities and of
the more solemn philosophers; yet it’s certain that nobody
ever met such an absurd creature ·as a sceptic·, or talked
with a man who had no opinion on any subject, practical
or theoretical. So the question naturally arises: What is
meant by ‘sceptic’? And how far it is possible to push these
philosophical principles of doubt and uncertainty?
Descartes and others have strongly recommended one
kind of scepticism, to be practised in advance of philosophy
or any other studies. It preserves us, they say, against
error and rash judgment. It recommends that we should
doubt not only all our former opinions and principles but
also our very faculties. The reliability of our faculties, these
philosophers say, is something we must be assured of by a
chain of reasoning, deduced fr ...
This document discusses mystical and metaphysical claims and beliefs. It provides examples of mystical statements from figures like Ken Wilber and Dr. Bronner. It then examines some issues with mystical and metaphysical claims, such as the tendency to conflate what is good with what is real, and the potential for faulty logic. The document argues that embodiment, fallibility, and cognitive biases should encourage caution and reflection regarding absolute or foundational claims about reality that cannot be scientifically proven.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with limited abilities in a domain greatly overestimate their competency. It occurs because the skills needed to be competent are also needed to recognize one's own incompetence. As a result, incompetent people fail to recognize actual skill levels and mistakes. The effect stems from a "dual burden" where incompetence deprives people of the ability to realize how little they actually know.
Thinking fast and slow by daniel kahnmanAkash Gupta
1. Experts develop intuition through recognition, where familiar cues in a new situation activate stored memories to provide an answer. However, expert predictions are often no better than chance.
2. Statistical thinking requires considering categories and groups, rather than individual cases, but people tend to apply causal reasoning inappropriately.
3. Anchoring effects, availability heuristic, and representativeness heuristic cause people to make judgments based on ease of recall or single features matching a prototype, rather than objective analysis.
Revolutionizing the Digital Landscape: Web Development Companies in Indiaamrsoftec1
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The document discusses various definitions and theories of intelligence. It begins by defining intelligence as an umbrella term for mental abilities such as reasoning, problem solving, thinking abstractly, comprehending ideas, using language, and learning. It notes there is no single agreed upon definition. The document then examines several theories of intelligence, including Charles Spearman's theory of general intelligence, Louis Thurstone's theory of primary mental abilities, Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory, and Daniel Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence. It also lists and describes nine proposed types of intelligence.
General symptomatology & psychopathology of psychiatric disorderJuliet Sujatha
The document provides an overview of general symptomatology and psychopathology of psychiatric disorders. It discusses components of the mind like thought disorders, disturbances in perception, unreality states, and memory disorders. It then examines specific thought disorders like tangentiality, circumstantially, looseness of association, flight of ideas, and others. It also discusses disorders of perception such as hallucinations and illusions. Finally, it briefly touches on disorders of consciousness including confusion and delirium.
What is it like to be a bat httpmembers.aol.comNeoNoetics.docxhelzerpatrina
What is it like to be a bat http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Nagel_Bat.html
1 of 9 20/04/2004 16.12
What is it like to be a bat?
Thomas Nagel
[From The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974):
435-50.]
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current
discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave of
reductionist euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and mental concepts designed
to explain the possibility of some variety of materialism, psychophysical identification, or reduction.
1
But
the problems dealt with are those common to this type of reduction and other types, and what makes the
mind-body problem unique, and unlike the water-H2O problem or the Turing machine-IBM machine
problem or the lightning-electrical discharge problem or the gene-DNA problem or the oak
tree-hydrocarbon problem, is ignored.
Every reductionist has his favorite analogy from modern science. It is most unlikely that any of these
unrelated examples of successful reduction will shed light on the relation of mind to brain. But
philosophers share the general human weakness for explanations of what is incomprehensible in terms
suited for what is familiar and well understood, though entirely different. This has led to the acceptance of
implausible accounts of the mental largely because they would permit familiar kinds of reduction. I shall
try to explain why the usual examples do not help us to understand the relation between mind and
body—why, indeed, we have at present no conception of what an explanation of the physical nature of a
mental phenomenon would be. Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less
interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless. The most important and characteristic feature of
conscious mental phenomena is very poorly understood. Most reductionist theories do not even try to
explain it. And careful examination will show that no currently available concept of reduction is
applicable to it. Perhaps a new theoretical form can be devised for the purpose, but such a solution, if it
exists, lies in the distant intellectual future.
Conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon. It occurs at many levels of animal life, though we
cannot be sure of its presence in the simpler organisms, and it is very difficult to say in general what
provides evidence of it. (Some extremists have been prepared to deny it even of mammals other than
man.) No doubt it occurs in countless forms totally unimaginable to us, on other planets in other solar
systems throughout the universe. But no matter how the form may vary, the fact that an organism has
conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something it is like to be that organism. There
may be further implications about the form of the experience; there may even (though I doubt it) be
implications about the behavior of the ...
Being an introvert seems like a fate, but in fact it‘s a challenge. Understand-
ing yourself will help you tackle the problems that all introverts are facing: health
risks, job-related problems and difficult relationships. Knowing about those intro-
vert specific issues will help you to lift your burden and to develop your true po-
tential. And as a result, you will live happier and healthier.
Group psychology and the analysis of the egoMichel Newman
1. The document summarizes key points from Gustave Le Bon's work on group psychology. Le Bon argues that when individuals form a group, they take on a "collective mind" that is different from when they are alone. They lose their individual characteristics and take on an "average character" of the group.
2. Le Bon believes individuals in a group also display new, more primitive characteristics due to "contagion" and heightened "suggestibility." He likens the state of individuals in a group to a hypnotic state, where they obey suggestions without conscious control over their actions.
3. The source of the "fascination" or hypnotic influence over group members is not clearly
This document provides an introduction to and overview of cold reading techniques used by some psychic readers. It explains that cold readers can glean a lot of information about clients before a reading simply by observing clues like appearance, mannerisms, speech and other behaviors. This allows readers to tailor their responses to seem insightful without prior knowledge. It also outlines common problems or life events that prompt people to seek readings, like relationship issues, health concerns, and desire for reassurance or advice. The document aims to equip readers with psychological insights to perform convincing yet unsupported readings for clients.
This document provides an introduction to the art of cold reading and character analysis. It discusses how cold readers are able to diagnose people's problems and predict outcomes based on an understanding of human behavior and psychology. While cold readers do not actually have psychic abilities, they are able to lower people's guards and get them to reveal information by observing clues and asking probing questions in a reassuring manner. The document contrasts the methods of cold readers and psychiatrists, while noting they pursue similar goals of helping people through understanding human nature.
This document discusses the definition and branches of philosophy. Philosophy comes from the Greek words "philos" meaning love and "sophia" meaning wisdom. It is defined as using human reason to study the first causes or highest principles of things through natural light of reason and unaided by other sciences. The main branches of philosophy are metaphysics, which studies existence; ethics, which studies morality; epistemology, which studies knowledge; and logic, which studies reasoning. The document also discusses why philosophizing through wondering and reflection is important to gain a holistic perspective.
Course 0837 assingment 1 roll no ce529580shannazir1
The document defines various sources of knowledge including senses, intuition, authority, and reason. It discusses each source in detail and notes both strengths and limitations. The senses are described as the most important source but also prone to providing a useful rather than objective reality. Intuition can provide insights but often proves incorrect. Authority and reason can generate new knowledge but depend on initial facts being accurate. The document also defines educational research as a systematic process to improve education through applying scientific methods. It notes research can be exploratory, descriptive, or explanatory and discusses qualitative and quantitative methods.
The document discusses imagining oneself as a 572-year-old engaged in various activities and scenarios. It explores:
1) Imagining oneself at 572 years old on a Sunday afternoon engaged in a leisure activity and then starting work on Monday.
2) The challenges of imagining oneself or one's environment at such an advanced age, and comparing it to imagining other ages such as 456 or 140 years old.
3) How collective cultural knowledge and examples like fictional characters can make imagining older ages easier by providing models or contexts to imagine within.
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming thatSantosConleyha
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming that they have one?What does “semiotic” mean? What could Geertz have in mind when he says that culture is “semiotic”? How does Geertz's notion of culture differ from that given above?
2. Who was John Ryle and why is he remembered? What is the point of Geertz’s long example, adapted from the work of Gilbert Ryle, where he discusses “twitches, winks, fake-winks, parodies, [and] rehearsals of parodies” (pp. 6-7)? How would Ryle's description of a wink differ from that of Geertz? How might these twitches, winks, and so on be analyzed if we understand the study of culture as an “experimental science”? How does our analysis change if we believe that the study of culture is “interpretive”?
3. Read the passage from Geertz’s field journal (pp. 7-9) again slowly, paying attention to detail. Describe what happens in in three or four sentences. What might Geertz mean at the end of the passage when he notes “how extraordinarily ‘thick’” even such an “elemental” ethnographic description must be? What are the implications of this “thickness” for the study of communication?
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Description: Toward an
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In her book, Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer remarks that
certain ideas burst. upon the intellectual landscape with a tremendous
force. They resolve so many fundamental problems at once that they
seem also to promise that they will resolve all fundamental problems,
clarify all obscure issues. Everyone snaps them up as the open sesame
of some new positive science, the conceptual center-point around which
a comprehensive system of analysis can be built. The sudden vogue of
such a grande idee, crowding out almost everything else for a while, is
due, she says, "to the fact that all sensitive and active minds turn at
once to exploiting it. We try it in every connection, for every purpose,
experiment with possible stretches of its strict meaning, with generaliza-
tions and derivatives."
After we have become familiar with the new idea, however, after it
has become part Qf our general stock of theoretical concepts, our expec-
4 THE INTERPRETATION OF CUL TURES
tations are bro_ught more into balance with its actual uses, and its exces-
sive popularity is ended. A few zealots persist in the old key-to-the-uni-
verse view of it; but less driven thinkers settle down after a while to the
problems the idea has really generated. They try to apply it and extend
it where it applies and where it is capable of extension; and they desist
where it does not apply, or cannot be extended. It becomes, if it was, in
truth, a seminal idea in the first place, a permanent and enduring part
of our intellectual armory. But it no longer has the grandiose, ...
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming thatBenitoSumpter862
1. Why is the relationship between Geertz and Weber, assuming that they have one?What does “semiotic” mean? What could Geertz have in mind when he says that culture is “semiotic”? How does Geertz's notion of culture differ from that given above?
2. Who was John Ryle and why is he remembered? What is the point of Geertz’s long example, adapted from the work of Gilbert Ryle, where he discusses “twitches, winks, fake-winks, parodies, [and] rehearsals of parodies” (pp. 6-7)? How would Ryle's description of a wink differ from that of Geertz? How might these twitches, winks, and so on be analyzed if we understand the study of culture as an “experimental science”? How does our analysis change if we believe that the study of culture is “interpretive”?
3. Read the passage from Geertz’s field journal (pp. 7-9) again slowly, paying attention to detail. Describe what happens in in three or four sentences. What might Geertz mean at the end of the passage when he notes “how extraordinarily ‘thick’” even such an “elemental” ethnographic description must be? What are the implications of this “thickness” for the study of communication?
- __ ., ______ r-- _________ _
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Chapter I /Thick
Description: Toward an
Interpretive Theory of
Culture·
I
In her book, Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer remarks that
certain ideas burst. upon the intellectual landscape with a tremendous
force. They resolve so many fundamental problems at once that they
seem also to promise that they will resolve all fundamental problems,
clarify all obscure issues. Everyone snaps them up as the open sesame
of some new positive science, the conceptual center-point around which
a comprehensive system of analysis can be built. The sudden vogue of
such a grande idee, crowding out almost everything else for a while, is
due, she says, "to the fact that all sensitive and active minds turn at
once to exploiting it. We try it in every connection, for every purpose,
experiment with possible stretches of its strict meaning, with generaliza-
tions and derivatives."
After we have become familiar with the new idea, however, after it
has become part Qf our general stock of theoretical concepts, our expec-
4 THE INTERPRETATION OF CUL TURES
tations are bro_ught more into balance with its actual uses, and its exces-
sive popularity is ended. A few zealots persist in the old key-to-the-uni-
verse view of it; but less driven thinkers settle down after a while to the
problems the idea has really generated. They try to apply it and extend
it where it applies and where it is capable of extension; and they desist
where it does not apply, or cannot be extended. It becomes, if it was, in
truth, a seminal idea in the first place, a permanent and enduring part
of our intellectual armory. But it no longer has the grandiose, ...
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‘But with regard to your main line of thought’ (I continued)
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Descartes and others have strongly recommended one
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doubt not only all our former opinions and principles but
also our very faculties. The reliability of our faculties, these
philosophers say, is something we must be assured of by a
chain of reasoning, deduced fr ...
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3. thoughts
upon investigation in this project i decided to
focus on perception - on a macro level - both
visible and invisible to the human eye. this lead
to a discovery that even ordinary objects show
great complexity on a functional and scientific
level.
altering your state of mind or instating a new
mind set - with the possible aid of technology -
can broaden horizons, procure greater ideas and
ultimately help attain a greater sense of appRE-
CIATION for the world around us.
4. familiar à strange 1 of 2
FAMILIARITY DE-
RIVED FROM A
COMMONL USED
Y
OBJECT
additional thoughts
simply recog- consider: human a weapon, a
nized: the comb. exstinction and fragment of some
almost cave-man future civiliza- creature’s
like in its form tions rediscover- internal struc-
and uncompli- ing relics of the ture, or perhaps
cated function. past. the comb: a dead communi-
what could it be? cations device?
5. FAMILIAR [fuh-mil-yer]: –adjective
1. commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
2. well-acquainted; thoroughly conversant: to be familiar with a subject.
3. informal; easygoing; unceremonious; unconstrained: to write in a familiar style.
4. closely intimate or personal: a familiar friend; to be on familiar terms.
5. unduly intimate; too personal; taking liberties; presuming: The duchess disliked familiar servants.
6. domesticated; tame.
7. of or pertaining to a family or household.
6. familiar à strange 2 of 2
STRANGENESS
RESUL TING
FROM EXCESSIVE
UTILITY
additional thoughts
grotesque: a consider: can macro shots often
seemingly simple known elements lead to a question-
tool can be ex- in the composi- ing of the larger
ploited to a point tion lead to a picture. does
of disgusting probable conclu- simply examining
strangeness re- sion of subjects an object closely
sulting in un- interacting? disrupt the nat
recognition. -ural recogntion
of it?
7.
8.
9. SOMETHING
STRANGE INTO
SOMETHING F AMIL-
IAR, TO ME, REALLY
LIES WITHIN A
DEEPER EXAMINA-
TION OF THAT
THING.
10. strange à familiar 1 of 2
STRANGENESS
DUE TO A
LACK OF
KNOWLEDGE
additional thoughts
strange: this bit consider: what’s but to a biochem-
of information is strange to one ist or scientist it
useless and person may be is obviously the
unrecognizable familiar to molecular
to the untrained another and vice structure of pure
eye - obviously a versa. this polyethylene the
formula it’s molecular base for the
meaning falls structure means plastic of the
short nothing to me - object.
11. STRANGE [streynj]: –adjective
1. unusual, extraordinary or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
,
2. estranged, alienated, etc., as a result of being out of one's natural environment.
3. situated, belonging, or coming from outside of one's own locality; foreign.
4. outside of one's previous experience; hitherto unknown; unfamiliar .
5. unaccustomed to or inexperienced in; unacquainted (usually fol. by to).
6. distant or reserved; shy .
12. “IT IS ONE OF THE COMMONEST OF MISTAKES TO CONSIDER THAT THE
LIMIT OF OUR POWER OF PERCEPTION IS ALSO THE LIMIT OF ALL THERE
IS TO PERVIEVE.”
14. strange à familiar 2 of 2
RECOGNITION
GAINED FROM
A CHANGE IN
PERSPECTIVE
additional thoughts
familiar: chang- consider: former and familiarity.
ing perspective knowledge, a being able to see
or context often canny eye, per- with an extended
can change the sonal experience vista of open-ness
meaning or or understanding can often times
familiarity to can drastically completely
certain individu- change percep- change all
als. tion, recognition- preconceieved
notions.
15.
16.
17. all images taken by lottie m. anderson
book produced spring 2010 for creative and critical
thinking
molecular structure referenced from:
“Handbook of Polyethylene: Structures: Properties, and
Applications” by andrew peacock