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Cognitive load refers to the strain or burden put onto someone’s working memory. The idea of humans having limited mental bandwidth has been observed for a long time. Modern cognitive psychology has been interested in measuring the limits and mechanisms of that bandwidth and related capacities. In 1956, George Miller published a study that found our short-term memory is generally limited to…
Education has always meant more than acquiring knowledge. It means participating in institutions and cultural traditions that preserve knowledge for future generations. When John Eliot, the New England Company, and Harvard College marketed themselves to the British Parliament and wealthy British families for funding in colonial America, they did so under the banner of a philanthropic endeavor to…
From David L. McMahan’s The Making of Buddhist Modernism (2009): “This book elucidates the complex cross-cultural genealogy of themes, ideas, and practices crucial to the creation of a new hybrid form of Buddhism that has emerged within the last 150 years.” “Buddhism modernism is not just Buddhism that happens to exist in the modern world but a distinct form of Buddhism constituted by…
When I went to UC Irvine, one of my first classes introduced SMART goals as a way to begin planning out our educational journey. I originally intended this article to be about making a potential productivity tool more accessible. To some extent, that will still be true. However, after I graduated, I noticed some recurring patterns in the way number games are played in every institution (go watch…
I discovered SSEHV
If I had to pick a problematic philosophy that people inadvertently adopt most often with the best of intentions, it would be perennialism.
“Stoic idealism degenerated in somewhat the same fashion. It began with appreciation for all men because they possesed a common reason; and ended with condescension for those who did not have a full measure of rational endowment.” - Reinhold Niebuhr I despise the way Stoicism is referenced today as yet another hyperindividualist reality-bending self-help tool. It’s on the same shelf to me as…
At UC Irvine, I specialized in Intelligent Systems. Which is rather strange because I don’t believe there’s much consensus, even among those with the specialization, about how we should define intelligence. We do touch on the ambiguity of it. We go through the classic thought experiments that probe at consciousness, intelligence, originality, subjectivity, and sentience: John Searle’s Chinese…