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Robert Hamill

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    Category: Mental Aspects

    How does our mind work(modes)? How is the mind related to the brain(neuro)? Is a person’s mind unique to them (learning)? In what way are all brains and minds alike (culture)?
    The four main areas of thinking that I write about. The links below focus the scope.
    Thought Modes
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    Emotions in Our Thinking
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    Emotions in Our Thinking

    Robert Hamill 22 Jan 202429 Feb 2024Leave a comment

    Why do we feel the way we do? How do emotions fit into our Thinking?

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    Improve Your Knowledge
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    Improve Your Knowledge

    Robert Hamill 17 Dec 20236 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Improve your knowledge by your experience.

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    Reasoning by Analogy
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    Reasoning by Analogy

    Robert Hamill 21 Nov 20235 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Reasoning by analogy allows the arguer to skip details by starting at a higher level of abstraction.

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    Bicycles and Probability Theory Share a Secret
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    Bicycles and Probability Theory Share a Secret

    Robert Hamill 20 Oct 202318 Apr 2025Leave a comment

    Secret logic does not reveal all consequences embedded in its premises.

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    Natural Social Groups
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    Natural Social Groups

    Robert Hamill 21 Sep 20234 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    In the ‘out group’, we interpret their behaviors sternly. If their choices are poor, it’s because they are lacking in a needed personality strength.

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    Implicit Learning
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    Implicit Learning

    Robert Hamill 18 Jul 202328 Nov 2024Leave a comment

    Implicit learning is important, but the only thing we can control is our conscious decisions.

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    Mentalese
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    Mentalese

    Robert Hamill 16 Feb 202327 Feb 2024Leave a comment

    Mentalese is not solely verbal, nor solely pictorial. The two modes work together, although most people favor one mode over the other.

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    Book Appreciation The Language of Thought
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    Book Appreciation The Language of Thought

    Robert Hamill 1 Feb 202326 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    Since I write about thinking, a review on Jerry Fodor’s The Language of Thought 1975 classic was a necessary research step. Jerry Fodor had a…

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    Emergence: Mind from Brain
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    Emergence: Mind from Brain

    Robert Hamill 12 Jan 202327 Feb 2024Leave a comment

    Almost Gate. Two things, almost the same, get treated as the same.

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    Illogical
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    Illogical

    Robert Hamill 30 Dec 202228 Nov 2024Leave a comment

    Looking for a pattern is a completely legitimate style of thinking. It doesn't use logic. It counts features until an Almost Match.

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    The brain works with almost matches, not exact matches.

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      Dare We Change?

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    Measure of Daily Life
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    Measure of Daily Life

    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    How Do We Think

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    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    War Powers Act
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    War Powers Act

    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

    • Failure of Old Economic Solutions
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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

    • The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street
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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

    • Morality. Absolute or Relative
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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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      Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)