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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; Environment</title>
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		<title>Conventional wisdom: In times like these we need more of what specifically?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 15:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[absolutism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[certainties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generosity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral absolutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t choose to do all this philosophizing the way one chooses a career. I got into it by necessity. What I had to go on before was inadequate. I had hit a midlife crisis armed with state-of-the-art wisdom from self-help and Buddhism . . . and it just wasn&#8217;t up to the task. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guesswork: Enough is enough, but how much is enough?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/guesswork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I get resolution on this?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fallibalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago I recounted a lot of tough problems raised over the ages about how cause and effect really work. One of the toughest was that if cause and effect works like we normally think it does-thing A bumps into thing B and moves it in a precisely predictable direction, then the whole universe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deduction: The dream and nightmare of absolute certainty him in a</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity tolerance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[destiny]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free will]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I began comparing and contrasting computers and minds, examining both human intuitions and appetites regarding the prospect that our minds are governed by the same kind of direct one-to-one-correspondence kind of cause-and-effect we see in the physical world (Aristotle&#8217;s efficient cause). If minds are really like computers, just translating information from one form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Free Willies: Are computers like humans? Are humans like computers?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/the-free-willies-are-computers-like-humans-are-humans-like-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle this conflict?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What to do about finances?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I get resolution on this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[determinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[predestination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zombie]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Wide Web, it&#8217;s like a giant human mind the way it processes billions of pieces of information. Someday it will become so smart it takes over the world. It will be able to think instead of us. Or so some cognitive scientists say. Your new computer too, it thinks so fast. The better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Paradox: If we always sacrificed for each other, no one would ever have to make sacrifices</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/the-golden-paradox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/the-golden-paradox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I commit?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I fight on?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I give in?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I stay?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accommodation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[give and take]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral dilemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradox]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know me. I&#8217;ve got hardly any moral principles; I&#8217;m all about moral dilemmas. I made the case a while ago (see Liar&#8217;s Paradox Moral Litmus Test) that if you can come up with a Liar&#8217;s Paradox-like statement regarding some moral principle, then it really isn&#8217;t a moral principle. Instead, it&#8217;s a moral dilemma. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yearnocracies: Negotiating the slippery slope between hope and hoax</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/yearnocracies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/yearnocracies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:34:51 +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[Should I fight on?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I give in?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law of attraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[need to known ratio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Secret]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wishful thinking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Real estate has buyer&#8217;s and seller&#8217;s markets&#8211;and other industries have them as well. Information industries have a particular kind of seller&#8217;s market in which demand is high for information that is not reliably available. Cancer treatment, money management, leadership training, alternative medicine, psychotherapy, get-rich-quick training courses, spiritual guidance, diet programs&#8211;these are just some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploratory Commitment: The try/buy dichotomy</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/exploratory-commitment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/exploratory-commitment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I negotiate this?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I sacrifice?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goethe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speculation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[try]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I discussed the relationship between the questions &#8220;How can I succeed?&#8221; and &#8220;Can I succeed?&#8221; The two questions form a loop. In one direction, ambition inspires you to ask, &#8220;Can I succeed?&#8221; To answer that question, you ask, &#8220;Well, how can I succeed?&#8221; Then you explore particular plans to do so. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope: As an answer or a question</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law of attraction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Success is as dangerous as failure; hope is as hollow as fear. Lao Tzu (translation: Stephen Mitchell) One interpretation of this line from the Tao Te Ching supports a popular piece of advice: You shouldn&#8217;t care about success or failure. Caring only makes you anxious and competitive. If you succeed at not caring, you neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aspirational Tense: &#8220;I most definitely am, I hope.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/aspirational-tense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/aspirational-tense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I expecting too much?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I sliding?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The relationship between reality and interpretation is always tenuous. Who’s to say what’s real? There is no simple formula to ensure that an interpretation matches reality—and besides, if there were one, we’d be ambivalent about using it. Our impressions bob and weave around our reality. Reality delivers a right uppercut and our impressions slide out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Uncertain: Casting doubt on inconvenient possibilties.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/finances/going-uncertain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 20:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yeah, but relax, you don&#8217;t know that for sure.&#8221; For the most part, people hate uncertainty. It&#8217;s mentally taxing. It distracts us from our focused pursuits. It reduces our confidence. It vaporizes our mojo. Still, we do welcome one kind of uncertainty&#8211;uncertainty that frees us from a larger uncertainty. If current projections about global warming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottom Fine Line: Beneath every bottom line secret to success there&#8217;s a fine line between success and failure</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/bottom-fine-line-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/bottom-fine-line-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard about “The Secret”? A student invited me to his house to watch the DVD, which has sold over 1.5 million copies. He claimed it had changed his life. We made an informal field trip of it, but I had to cut the engagement short. It made my skin crawl. I couldn’t stay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Wife Crisis: It’s the economy, stupid.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mid-wife-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mid-wife-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=76</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was married by 24 and had my first child at 25. By the standard of my parents’ generation, 24 was normal&#8211;my father married at that age&#8211;but by my generation’s standard (especially within my Northern California subculture), it was peculiar to get married so young. My firstborn child is eight years older than those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Triangle: A way to measure social combustability</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/peace-triangle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/peace-triangle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I wait?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convenience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost-benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[importance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rationality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I’m confessing, I should also say that I was once a fire chief in rural Tennessee. I was fortunate during my tenure. No one got hurt. Just a few hay barns went up in smoke. Sometimes an idea sticks in your head for no obvious reason and later you find all sorts of uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Critical Gap: Spin, out of control</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/critical-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We should have seen it coming. The human race is developing and spreading weapons of mass destruction far ahead of its capacity to defend against or control them. There’s a growing defense gap. We could have seen this coming too: The world supply of crazy leaders doesn’t seem to be in decline. We haven’t found [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/declaration-of-co-depndence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-dependence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=25</guid>
		<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>Romanticynicism: Love in the irony age</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/romanticynicism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/friends/romanticynicism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I say it?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ambigamy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people don’t feel safe in love unless it’s complete, absolute, and unconditional. Others (me, for one) only feel safe in love when it isn’t. I feel safest when I, and those who love with me, know that love can never be complete, absolute, and unconditional, that unconditional love is only unconditional under certain conditions. [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[axe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S.Peirce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[take it leave it try to change it]]></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>Aboutness: A troublesome concept in life science and life</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/spirituality/aboutness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/spirituality/aboutness/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cogito ergo summarize]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-authoritative norm]]></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>Flail Blazing: Error increases when you&#8217;re chasing a moving target</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/flail-blazing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The increase in error that accompanies trail blazing activities. For example, when traveling, we generally get lost more often. When studying brand new material we generally make more errors. When starting a new job, we generally mess up more often. When inventing something new we generally make a lot of non-functional prototypes. Mistakes come with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Virtue; Virtual Vice: Fake it till you make it&#8230;or forsake it</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/virtual-virtue-virtual-vice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/virtual-virtue-virtual-vice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is virtual vice a virtue or a vice? Wordplay aside, my question is whether it&#8217;s good or bad to experience sin vicariously, for example, playing violent video games or watching violent movies. We can think of scenarios in which it&#8217;s bad: Underage children learning belligerence from video games that they take it out on people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Edited: On needing and resisting feedback</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/getting-edited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=47</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I’m really torn. I’ve shown my work to friends who say it’s good, but for some reason I can’t sell it. I’d like to figure out why. Though it may sound pretentious, sometimes I think it’s because the world’s just not ready for it. Other times I think it could be better. So I’ve tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bayesian Updating: Guided by intuitive predictions</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-stay/bayesian-updating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2004 02:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=12</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the probability that your co-worker will steal your work? That your mom will stress you out on her upcoming visit? That your computer will lock up? That your partner is going to be cold to you tonight? That your son is failing again? I mean given the history what are the odds? We intuit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selectrician: Wiring yourself for sound growth</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/selectrician/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/selectrician/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Should I fight on?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I give in?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aims]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting things done]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural selection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peer pressure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[will power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Definition: People who apply the evolutionary theory of natural selection to their own lives, wiring up the natural selective pressures in their environments to bring out the best in them. Have you noticed what a wimp willpower is? We&#8217;d be fools to depend on it to hold us to our New Year&#8217;s resolutions, our diets, [...]]]></description>
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