Tag Archives: psychology
New Hobbies #3
On holidays, I seem to do things that I otherwise wouldn’t. On the other hand, during holidays I can’t seem to keep up doing the things I usually do, like blogging and thinking about war. This series of blog posts … Continue reading
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Day 28!
OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAVE ONLY THREE THOUSAND WORDS TO GO The story is actually coming together quite ok. Now if you can tell from this scene what the relationship between the three people is, that will either be … Continue reading
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Cogito Ergo Sum
It’s an idea I have become so familiar with, that the phrase itself is rendered almost meaningless, like a cliché. But, perhaps unlike a cliché, I think therefore I am is deeply embedded in my head as an idea among … Continue reading
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So, HOT or NOT?
(The tale of hotornot began with psychopathology, continued onto the (possible) virtues of delusions, and culminated in some rather hard-to-interpret results. As an aside, I do like the effect the humble comma can have on the meaning of sentences.) Interpretation … Continue reading
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Delusions of…
(or, HOT or NOT? part 2. Here’s part 1.) There we were, in Intro to Psychopathology last Thursday. After our lecturer had explained Beck’s cognitive model, one of the Matts in my class (there’s three of them) asked a question … Continue reading
I, Zombie
I’ve just found a drafted post of mine that starts “Sometimes I wonder whether I mightn’t just be a well brought up psychopath”. The thought stands alone; isn’t elaborated on at all – which probably, in hindsight, is a good … Continue reading
Standards and Goals
I wrote here, half a year ago, that my thoughts were going somewhere, and that once their goal was clear I’d share. It’s a nice little rhyme, isn’t it? Unfortunately, that’s almost all it is, too, because promising something that’s … Continue reading
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Leo Tolstoy said:
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they … Continue reading
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Turning
You’ve probably heard of the Turing Test. Interpretations vary, but basically an Artificial Intelligence fails the Turing Test if it fails to convince a real human that it is a thinking being. I’ve talked to a few AIs on the … Continue reading
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