WWB Trainer
WWB Quick Hits
Process and clarify.
MODE:
~
4 minutes
of short abstracts.
10 Quick Hits. The key idea, the abstract excerpt of each idea.
1.
Yes and no. Pythagoras combined enduring empirical insights with personal beliefs that often overpowered sound reasoning.
2.
Evidence. Inductive reasoning is evidence based; abductive reasoning is a best guess from limited evidence.
3.
- No, but we do find lots of activity in caves!.
- Known as the preservation bias, we tend to emphasize what survived, not what was. .
Cognitive Biases < Four Mind Traps < TST Framework < Critical Thinking
4.
- One thing does not always follow another..
- ...but sometimes they do!.
Logical Fallacies < Four Mind Traps < TST Framework < Critical Thinking
5.
The Fermi Paradox is the common framework for thinking about the odds of alien life, but we need more data before it can become accurate enough to be useful.
6.
- Emotion can override logic..
- Angst is a basic survival instinct..
Logical Fallacies < Four Mind Traps < TST Framework < Critical Thinking
7.
Preservation bias shapes what we think we know by favoring durable evidence over what decays.
8.
The “universal speed limit” isn’t about light: it’s the limit for causation within our universe, even as space itself expands faster.
9.
Quote:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- 1755.
Meaning:
Five Thought Tools < TST Framework < Critical Thinking
10.
Cognitive Bias < Critical Thinking
Done. Refresh for another set.
WWB Trainer
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Writing and coding by Michael Alan Prestwood.
