Sensory Deprivation

August 25, 2009

When there’s nothing for our senses to report, they make reality up.

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Ranking the Best

August 20, 2009

“Best of” lists typically have an objective basis, but not much of one.

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Fuzzy Accuracy

August 18, 2009

There’s a confidence interval around all our beliefs, and it’s often quite wide.

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Defining “The Good”

August 17, 2009

What is good for us depends on what we objectively are.

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Farrah Fawcett

August 16, 2009

Sugarcoating undesirable facts is bad only when we can’t evade them.

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