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		<title>Please and thank you: Stop saying them so much. Please!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What should I do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambigamy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting on in years, so it surprises me when I learn something new regarding a commonplace of human interaction. Saying &#8220;please&#8221; and &#8220;thank you&#8221; is as commonplace as it gets. We&#8217;re told from early on that we say them to be nice. Only yesterday (and I wasn&#8217;t born yesterday) did I recognize why we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nounism: Taking THINGS too seriously</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How can I communicate this to her?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[name calling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permanence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republicans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week New Yorker columnist George Packer noted that while Sarah Palin&#8217;s syntax is mangled, more significantly it lacks verbs. It&#8217;s mostly nouns. Maverick, hockey mom, Joe sixpack, elitist, terrorist, small-town people&#8211;lots of heavily loaded nouns. Loaded nouns and the adjectives that modify them are part of everyone&#8217;s vocabulary, but in recent decades&#8211;under the influence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right and Wrong: Where do you draw the starting line?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[normativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[origins of life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How old is the difference between right and wrong? Some think it dates back to the origins of the universe. Some believe that God, the prime mover, knew right from wrong and designed everything to play out the appropriate balance between the two. Others think right and wrong are as old as God but not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause and Effect: Not black and white, but read all over as if it were</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What should I do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[efficient cause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[final cause]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[material cause]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cause and effect&#8211;we all believe in it and think we know how it works, but when we stop to think about it, some inconsistencies suggest there&#8217;s a lot more to it. And yet who studies the actual workings of cause and effect? Researchers in the philosophy of science&#8211;not a specialization you&#8217;ve probably heard or thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Fundamental: Stalemates and infinite loops in a human-persuade-human world.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[extended phenotype]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hypersensitive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nagging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“You can’t change other people. All you can do is change your attitude.” People say this sort of thing when they’ve decided to stop trying to change someone. Maybe generalizing like this helps convince them to let go, but of course it’s not true. Influence happens. Influence is as old as ecosystems. We are extensions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extended Memotype: On Advice, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural evolution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People who give advice are annoying, kind, nosy, generous, pushy, helpful, proud, selfless, self-serving, and domineering. My advice is to ignore them completely and at your own expense. I&#8217;ve been given advice-and as you know, I give my share of advice, too. Well, perhaps more than my share. I&#8217;ve been thinking about the dynamics of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liar&#8217;s Paradox Moral Litmus Test: If you contradict yourself you can&#8217;t both be right</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/is-this-worth-fighting-for/conflict/liars-paradox-moral-litmus-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liar's paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral absolutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral dilemmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral principles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-cnotradiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-negation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-reference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=65</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people, when admonished to comply with moral absolutes&#8211;to always be honest, generous, tolerant, or the like&#8211;nod their heads at the sage advice. Me, I no longer see moral absolutes; I only see moral dilemmas. I think of honesty, generosity, tolerance, and other seemingly monolithic virtues as questions, not answers. As of this week I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Satisficing: Squeaky wheels and vicious cycles</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/co-satisficing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dialectical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[liar's paradox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[negative feedback loops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oscillation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradox]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Darling, you&#8217;re absolutely right. I haven&#8217;t been paying you much attention, but from now on things are going to be different.&#8221;. &#8220;On&#8221; is the iffy word here. We’re generally not wise enough that a word to the wise, wises us up forever more. As long as the pressure is high, we respond. When the pressure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-Level-Headed: The ins and outs of humor</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/multi-level-headed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Koestler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laughing at or with]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liar's paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peekaboo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about insider and outsider status within popular songs. I ended by extending that theme into humor. There is a lot of humor in which we watch to see whether the insider or the outsider prevails in status. Who’s in first place? Who’s in second? In picaresque humor like Beverly Hills Cop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOGIBO (Me Outside. Good Inside. Bad Outside): Personal popularity in popular culture</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mogibo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[popular music]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MOGIBO is the sentiment expressed in many popular tunes, old and new: I’ve lost at love. I’m out of the loop and it’s sad. I can’t win in the mainstream. The world has left me behind. MOGIBO is one of just a few basic relationships possible between the in-crowd, the out-crowd, good and bad, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.O.S.C.O. (Right On Schedule, Chill Out): Global warming as inevitable</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/rosco-right-on-schedule-chill-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I burnt my feet very badly once, spilling ignited gasoline on them by mistake. I went up in flames. For a while I felt no pain. I got to experience the way the body sets upper limits on excruciation in the short term. I take comfort from knowing that some sudden physical shocks don’t feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiasmic Questions: How do you jump-start virtuous cycles?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-trust-them/negotiation/chiasmic-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love teaching at a small college because it forces me to be a generalist. I teach history, psychology, philosophy, economics, marketing, writing, and literature. As a result I work primarily with the patterns that connect various disciplines. Here’s one that keeps popping up. It’s a chiasmic* question&#8211;a question that addresses two alternatives, each an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declaration of Co-dependence: You might as well face it—you’re addicted through love.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/declaration-of-co-depndence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attachment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[co-dependence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my local grocery store. See, I love to eat. When I don’t eat, I feel like I’m missing something. The grocery store is full of things I can eat. Mine is open 24 hours a day. It’s about ten blocks away and I can drive to it in my reliable car, which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triads: Variation on a theme of variation on a theme</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-trust-them/negotiation/triads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I just accept this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[axe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S.Peirce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last issue, (Search &#8220;Lax&#8221;), I presented evolution’s three collaborative yet contentious cooks—variation, selection, and retention—and assigned them nicknames that express their personalities: 1. Lax: Loose variation, going with the flow 2. Axe: Discerning selection, the cut that accepts some things and rejects others 3. Ox: Persistent retention, stubbornly asserting itself to do more of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lax, Axe, and Ox: The gods of creation revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-trust-them/negotiation/lax-axe-and-ox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were creating a universe, how would you go about it? Chances are, you’d do it the way you create anything. You would do a little planning then just create it to your specs. So of course, that’s how people tend to think God did it—just thought it up and created it. But is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplexity: Simple rules giving rise to complex mind-like behavior</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/is-this-worth-fighting-for/conflict/simplexity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/is-this-worth-fighting-for/conflict/simplexity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I sacrifice?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[algorythims]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cellular automata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaos theory]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An old Zen master declared that “enlightenment is easy if you have no preferences.” I’ve heard some Buddhists interpret this statement as a prescription to have no preferences, which of course gives you the loopy command “Prefer to be without preference.” Me, I prefer preference to enlightenment, but I do like to cultivate the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind &amp; Matter: Acting as though we live in parallel universes though we really live in one.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/spirituality/mind-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Descartes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intensions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s summer. Perhaps things slow down for you and you&#8217;ve got a little more time to think expansively. I’m therefore allowing myself to try to convey one of the more complicated ideas that shapes our mind reading. Two Kinds of Causality: Mechanical and Mental When explaining the behavior of anything or anyone, people use two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aboutness: A troublesome concept in life science and life</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/spirituality/aboutness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboutness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aspirational tense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beliteralling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cogito ergo summarize]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Information theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[purpose]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-authoritative norm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semiotics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=4</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I mentioned semiotics and information theory, both of which are studies of how information, meaning, sign reading, and, yes, mind reading happen. Semiotics is the more philosophical approach. Information theory, more scientific and quantified, is the brainchild of Claude Shannon, a mathematician working for Bell Labs. At its core is a measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semiotics: How information happens</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/is-there-something-to-learn-here/semiotics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[boltzmann]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Semiotics is the science of signs, significance and meaning. It asks a most basic question: how does information happen? One basic answer goes like this. I&#8217;ll say it first theoretically (simplifying a bit) and then give an intuitive example. You start with expectations of some habit in your environment. The habit gets broken somehow which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pattern Sensuality, Discernment &amp; Fluency: Liking and licking the many parallel contours of life</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/is-there-something-to-learn-here/pattern-sensuality-discernment-fluency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 18:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bateson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pattern recognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solving for pattern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supertition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a student who is totally unimpressed. He says, &#8220;Jeremy, I&#8217;m still waiting for you to give us your guidance about how to read minds. I think you&#8217;re stalling.&#8221; And then every once in a while a reader comments, &#8220;Jeremy, I don&#8217;t see how you come up with a new idea for Mind Readers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third-order guidance: Wisdom for people who know better than to take dictation</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/is-there-something-to-learn-here/third-order-guidance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A time to reap a time to sow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absolutes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[guidance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the wisdom to know the difference]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dear old professor of mine wrote suggesting that I give more guidance or advice in these Mind Readers columns. To me, guidance comes in three varieties. The first tells people what they should always do. The second tells people to find the happy medium between two or more things they should do. The third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hegeling: The cast of characters in every debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I do better?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I get resolution on this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I negotiate this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I commit?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect less from them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect more from them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I give in?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I wait?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What to do about finances?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will it promote or discourage better behavior?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hegel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel got many things wrong, but one of his central themes rings true: Learning moves in cycles of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Hegel&#8217;s theory, outlined (and illustrated) below, suggests not only why people often disagree about how to end a debate but also details the five basic end points they advocate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose: Mine and Evolution&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-commit/purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I commit?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I wait?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboutness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intentions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely mention where I go for Mind-reader&#8217;s ideas. Obviously the sources are eclectic. Now that I&#8217;m teaching Western Civilization part-time I&#8217;ll probably add the occasional historical tidbit to the philosophical ones that have crept in over the past year as I started teaching philosophy. But there is a core source. I&#8217;m an evolutionary epistemologist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;R: Balancing time out and in the real world</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/rr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I do better?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I negotiate this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I just accept this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I lower my expectations?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I relax?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What is my role here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What should I do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will it promote or discourage better behavior?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[degradion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redundancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relaxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selectrician]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Months back I wrote about an important, overlooked dynamic in evolution called Redundancy and Relaxation*. When you have two ways to do something, performance pressure is relaxed, which brings about either innovation or flakiness. It&#8217;s like R&#38;R: The boss says, &#8220;We&#8217;ve got someone to take your place for a couple of weeks, so for now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Meta: On the pleasures and perils of higher consciousness</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/going-meta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I negotiate this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will it promote or discourage better behavior?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[godel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[going meta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[levels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liar's paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upleveling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The prefix Meta- comes from the Greek. It originally meant &#8220;after,&#8221; so when late Greek scholars were cataloging Aristotle&#8217;s works, they called his books on fundamental philosophical assumptions &#8220;metaphysics,&#8221; meaning nothing more profound than &#8220;the books that come after the books about physics.&#8221; Aristotle&#8217;s metaphysics seeded inquiry into existence&#8217;s overarching questions. As a result, meta [...]]]></description>
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