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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; telos</title>
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		<title>Value: The Pursuit of happiness; the happiness of pursuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you have a great holiday, or just a good one? Were you hoping to get a bit more done, and at the same time to take it easier? Vacations can be disorienting. This year I noticed a few reasons why: They’re rare. They’re a treat and a reward. We’re anxious not to squander them [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[algorythims]]></category>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/spirituality/mind-matter/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Descartes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[efficient]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intentions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mechanical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[telos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tides]]></category>

		<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>
		<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[information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[purpose]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-authoritative norm]]></category>
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		<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>Hybrid Vehicle: When cruising downhill, charge your batteries for the uphills</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/hybrid-vehicle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/career/hybrid-vehicle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:40:58 +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[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></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 hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[battery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and went right out and bought a used Honda Insight (66 mpg). I know my energy-conserving car makes a negligible dent in global warming. My father would have called my purchase a “votive act,” votive meaning showing or symbolizing a wish or desire. When he was diagnosed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-grief: Is something gained in letting go before something is lost?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/pre-grief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/pre-grief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anticipation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disappointment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mourning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When my mother was diagnosed with cancer but still waiting for test results, she was very anxious. To counter her anxiety, she asked, “What’s the use of grieving now? If it’s bad, I’ll still have to grieve later.” As reasonable as this sentiment is, it didn’t help. She grieved both before and after the test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your RV: Repetition and Variation as your re-creational vehicle</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/your-rv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/your-rv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 03:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[baby and bath water]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fundamentals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[retention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re deep into the details of some discipline, be it nursing, accounting, auto repair, or mind reading, the number of important factors and considerations gets so great that you need a way to organize them. Here, in the deeps of mind reading, the way to organize the multitude of factors is through careful abstract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hegeling: The cast of characters in every debate</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/hegeling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/hegeling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Will it promote or discourage better behavior?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=55</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-commit/purpose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aboutness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=103</guid>
		<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>Rational: In search of a well reasoned definition</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-commit/rational/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-commit/rational/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DEFINITION 1. Weighing all pros and cons. 2. Weighing some (not all) pros and cons. 3. Weighing the right pros and cons. 4. Weighing the pros and cons that I want you to. Socrates argued that we all want to better our circumstances. No one is out to get less of what they want. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Philosophical: A good coping strategy sometimes</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/is-this-worth-fighting-for/conflict/getting-philosophical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking to the occasional troubled friend lately, I&#8217;ve had the urge to recommend getting philosophical about the trouble. But I&#8217;ve held my tongue, largely because getting philosophical has a bad reputation. It evokes images of indifferent or glib people saying, &#8220;Hey, shit happens, what&#8217;re ya gonna do? Life ain&#8217;t a bowl of cherries.&#8221; Or maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of All Questions: The sound of one world chanting &#8220;hmmm&#8230;?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mother-of-all-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time we have answers enough—no questions on our minds. When a question crowds in, it&#8217;s usually some variation on or aspect of this one—the mother of all questions: WHAT CAN I DO WITH WHAT I&#8217;M DEALT TO GET TO THE GOOD? At first it reads as generic and bland. But notice all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideolatry: Idolizing ideas as if a spark of insight is all you need</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/is-this-a-sign/is-this-worth-wondering-about/ideolatry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=57</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I live for ideas. A new one is like a fresh teenage crush, like a lucky gold coin in my pocket. But like crushes or lucky coins, ideas don&#8217;t necessarily change much. We idea fanatics, insight junkies, and professional idea-people need to be aware of a vocational and avocational hazard: a tendency to think ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plans, Expectations, Goals: Pegs for marking out paradoxical paths</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/plans-expectations-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last &#8220;Mind-Reader&#8217;s&#8221; was about floodlighting, a technique for overcoming both rashness and indecisiveness on soft decisions. Floodlighting is the alternative to spotlighting the options you&#8217;re for or against. To floodlight is to illuminate all the available options at once, that is, to explore your full decision space rather than swinging your spotlight from one isolated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gods, dogs, and blogs: We want to talk even if they&#8217;re not listening</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/gods-dogs-and-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/gods-dogs-and-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=50</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My dog appears to hang on my every word, but I can see through the thin façade of interest she displays. Underneath it, she’s linguistically challenged. The details of what I say are lost on her. And yet I’ll talk. I don’t worry about my wasted breath, and she doesn’t worry that she’ll be tested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dilemmacist: When life gives you dilemmas&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/dilemmacist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/dilemmacist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve got an unusual approach to stress. When I face a dilemma I don’t drink, exercise, pray, put my foot down, take a pill, meditate, go into denial, lose sleep, talk people’s ears off, take action, run away howling, watch TV, tell jokes nervously, get depressed, or assume I’m an idiot. I mean I do [...]]]></description>
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