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How Education Makes You Dumber
DIR By: guest55
Date: September 24, 2021, 7:34 pm
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> "Children should be kept from all kinds of instruction that
may make errors possible until their sixteenth year, that is to
say, from philosophy, religion, and general views of every
description; because it is the errors that are acquired in early
days that remain, as a rule, ineradicable, and because the
faculty of judgement is the last to arrive at maturity." —
Arthur Schopenhauer
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SCHOPENHAUER: How Education Makes You Dumber
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> In the natural state, humans form ideas based on their
observations of the world. Experience comes before learning –
this is how humans make sense of the world around them. When
ideas are generated in this way, there is an obvious link
between an observation and the subsequent idea.
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> Traditional education flips this dynamic on its head. In
traditional, or, artificial education as Schopenhauer calls it,
the idea precedes the experience.
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> What happens when you learn the ideas, before you have the
necessary experience, is you will apply those ideas wrongly as
soon as you step out of the classroom into the real world.
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> The teacher is busy cramming the head of the student full of
ideas, instead of teaching the student how to think in the first
place. Children will then grow up with a worldview that is based
on hearsay and opinion, and they are rarely equipped to handle
the real world.
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> Children are submerged in a ready-made apparatus of opinion
and prejudice, and if the real world conflicts with this web of
ideas – which is bound to happen as the child grows up, then he
will not change his opinion but rather lash out at the world
instead. Although lacking the proper term, Schopenhauer is
describing here what we would call cognitive dissonance today.
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> Education should seek to put observation before ideas and thus
mimick the natural way in which humans learn things.
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> However, Schopenhauer also notes that during youth, our
faculties of judgment are not yet fully developed. This is why
he proposes that in the first years of a child’s education,
there will be no subject matter that falls into what we would
call “the humanities” today. So no philosophy, no religion, no
matters of opinion.
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> Until age 16, a child should be taught only those subjects in
which objective errors are possible, for example, mathematics or
languages. Schopenhauer also mentions history here, but only the
kind of history that is concerned with memorization, such as
remembering dates.
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> The added benefit of this approach, says Schopenhauer, is that
our memory is the strongest during our youth. And those things
we memorize when we are young, we often remember for life.
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> Therefore it’s of great importance that these youthful years
are used to let children soak up as much quality information as
possible. Schopenhauer proposes that a group of experts from
every branch of knowledge comes together every 10 years, to
decide on a canon of essential knowledge.
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> Schopenhauer argues that maturity must come with experience.
Today, we might say this is the difference between knowledge and
wisdom. For Schopenhauer, engaging with the real world is of
extreme importance.
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: September 30, 2021, 11:57 am
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Psychedelics might reduce internalized shame and complex trauma
symptoms in those with a history of childhood abuse
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> The use of psychedelic drugs is associated with lower levels
of complex posttraumatic stress symptoms and internalized shame
in adults who suffered maltreatment in childhood, according to
new research published in the journal Chronic Stress.
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> “There’s an abundance of clinical studies of the therapeutic
effects of psychedelics, but few studies have examined the
therapeutic potential of psychedelic use in naturalistic
(non-clinical) settings,” said study author CJ Healy, a PhD
student at The New School for Social Research.
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> “Most of the people in the world who are healing themselves
with psychedelics are taking them in naturalistic settings — in
nature, with friends, at home, at a rave — and so I wanted to
study empirically whether this naturalistic, therapeutic use of
psychedelics is also showing benefits in terms of symptom
reduction and improvements in self-concept, particularly among
people with histories of complex trauma in childhood.”
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Entire Article:
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Adolescents who are better at identifying their feelings are
less likely to experience anxiety and depression in response to
stress
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> An intensive longitudinal study found evidence that
adolescents who are better able to differentiate their emotions
are less likely to develop mental health symptoms in response to
stress. The findings were published in Clinical Psychological
Science.
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> It has been widely documented that exposure to stress can lead
to psychological issues, especially during adolescence — a time
when issues such as depression and anxiety often emerge. But not
everyone develops psychological symptoms in response to stress,
leading affective science researchers to look for factors that
shield adolescents from these outcomes.
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> The literature suggests that one of these protective factors
is emotion regulation, and researchers Erik C. Nook and his team
hoped to replicate and extend these findings. The study authors
wondered whether the ability to accurately identify one’s
emotions, a key aspect of emotion regulation, would mitigate the
psychological impact of stress among adolescents. This skill,
referred to as emotion differentiation, tends to be particularly
low during adolescence.
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: October 5, 2021, 7:29 pm
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What actually is Pipeweed?
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Lentinan and Royal Sun Blazei
DIR By: guest55
Date: November 6, 2021, 11:48 am
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> Lentinan may help extend the survival of patients with some
cancers when used with chemotherapy, but additional studies are
needed.
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> Lentinan is a type of sugar molecule called 1,3 beta glucan
that comes from the shiitake mushroom. In laboratory tests,
lentinan does not kill cancer cells directly. Instead, it
enhances the immune system, which may aid in slowing the growth
of tumors. Lentinan also kills viruses and microbes directly in
laboratory studies.
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The Medicinal Values of Culinary-Medicinal Royal Sun Mushroom
(Agaricus blazei Murrill)
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> Abstract
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> Agaricus blazei Murrill (ABM), a mushroom native to Brazil, is
a basidiomycete brown fungus, which is popularly known as
"Cogumelo do Sol" in Brazil or "Himematsutake" in Japan, and
there has been a prominent increase in the use of ABM for
therapeutic and medicinal purposes. ABM is useful against a
variety of diseases like cancer, tumor, chronic hepatitis,
diabetes, atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, and so on. In
this review, we demonstrated various pharmacological effects of
ABM, so that we can use different effects of ABM against
different diseases and provide reference for the study of ABM in
the future.
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: November 17, 2021, 12:44 pm
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The world continues to embrace mycelium!
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> I feel like Paul should ALWAYS be emerging from fog before
speaking.
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Is Mycelium Fungus the Plastic of the Future?
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> I would happily live in a mycelium insulated home, wear
mushroom leather and support businesses that used this
packaging. Bring it on!
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> I’ll never get behind metal and paper alternatives to plastic
items due to their high production energy costs. Sometimes as
much as 500 times the pollution into the atmosphere. But this
is an actual win win product. Hope it gains traction.
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: December 3, 2021, 7:34 pm
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Californian firm touts ‘mushroom leather’ as sustainability
gamechanger
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> Vegan leather alternative isn’t just the hot fashion must-have
– it could teach us about consumption and waste
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> Vegan alternatives to leather could save more than just
animals. The scientists behind fashion’s new latest must-have –
the “mushroom leather” handbag – believe that mycelium, a
material grown from fungi which can be engineered to look and
feel like calfskin or sheepskin, could help save the planet.
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Mushroom cultivation is not sustainable evil because most
mushrooms can be grown on waste products such as saw dust and
straw!
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: December 3, 2021, 7:39 pm
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After giving it much thought I've come to the conclusion that a
neolithic farmer crawled into a granary at some point and found
some mushrooms growing on their grain, which they ate and then
had a major spiritual experience with. Mushrooms absolutely LOVE
grain!
This concept would be more interesting to myself than the whole
"Stoned Ape" theory....
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: December 3, 2021, 8:08 pm
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Former CIA Officer Will Teach You How to Spot a Lie
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> In this participatory session, you will learn how to tell when
someone is lying. Really. As a former CIA Officer with more than
20 years of experience in interviewing, interrogation and
polygraph examination, Susan has seen her share of truth
avoiders. She has, in fact, developed behavioral screening
programs that are used by the federal government. Don’t miss out
on learning her methodologies in spotting deception.
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Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language
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> Former FBI agent and body language expert Joe Navarro breaks
down the various ways we communicate non-verbally. What does it
mean when we fold our arms? Why do we interlace our fingers? Can
a poker player actually hide their body language?
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: December 7, 2021, 5:57 pm
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How Mushrooms Are Turned Into Bacon And Styrofoam | World Wide
Waste
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> A biotech company in upstate New York designs products made
from the root structures of mushrooms. It takes about a week to
grow their alternative to styrofoam packaging. And their vegan
meat can be sliced into whole cuts and crisps up like bacon when
fried.
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Re: Random Thoughts....
DIR By: guest55
Date: December 19, 2021, 2:54 pm
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Plastic-Eating Mushrooms: The Full Discovery and Details [2022
Update]
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> Cue the plastic-eating mushroom. Scientists have discovered
that microorganisms can play an important role in ridding the
planet of waste-plastic, as over 90 genera of bacteria, fungi,
and actinomycetes have the ability to degrade plastic. The
mycelium of Pestalotiopsis microspora can eat plastic products
as its primary food source and survive without air or light.
This makes it a marvelous mushroom for cleaning up the plastic
in our landfills and littering our environment.
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